If Trump wins, I'm going to invest in a comedy club. It's going to be a bull market for 8 years.
[Puts on Profession Comic Hat (the one in my picture)] Well, no. This is a common misconception about the ease of making comedy. The idea is that the dumber or more absurd something already is, the easier it is to mock. Mockery isn't always
funny though. The practical issue is, how do you mock Trump or his ideas more then they already are?
[Puts mortarboard over top of Comic Hat]
See, comedy isn't simply something stupid. Ideally comedy is a little bit wrong and a little bit right. One of the most basic forms is 'shattered expectations'. What are the expectations from Trump, his statements, and his ideas? How does one shatter them? We can look at Bush and his administration and highlight the wrong in it. The expectation is that they were saying and doing things to reflect how they believed reality behaves and should behave. Even when they were lying, they were doing so for outcomes. Even when they weren't trying to lie, weren't aware of it, basically lying to themselves, there was still juxtaposition to be revealed. There were a lot of funny ways to point out the contradictions and how the expectations they made didn't line up. They were trying to be right, and pointing out how they were kinda wrong or kinda right in a way they didn't think of left people with the unexpected. Breaking people's anticipation of what will happen next based on the logic laid out, or by breaking what they anticipate a line of logic to be employed on, creates humor. Bush was trying in good faith to reflect reality.
Trump doesn't
exist in good faith. He's not trying to use logic or reasoning to accurately reflect reality or ideology. It isn't even that he doesn't care if he's lying; lying is simply irrelevant to what he's trying to do. There is no 'correct'. There is no anticipated next.
There is no expectation. All that matters is that Trump is win double plus good. The reasoning doesn't matter, nor do the words, nor the logic. It's already all absurd and to get mileage from it one would have to get his reasoning to make sense, but reasoning doesn't matter in the least. It will change the next statement.
Contrary to what many think, totally random isn't funny. It has to make a
kind of a sense on some level. It has to be a little be right and wrong.
Lewis Black level of
reaction to Trump's antics can be funny, but it's the reasoning, anticipation, and reaction to the performer's reasoning and actions that's the comedy there.
tl;dr You can't make fun of Trump more than reality does already.
