Privilege. Especially white privilege. It’s easier to be happy when you’re benefiting from the invisible suffering of others.
Conservatives are racist nazis that have the IQ of an inbred redneck
I’m a redneck. Not inbred more than normal, as far as I know. I think I’m purty smart sometimes. Since you and I are 50th cousins, at worst, you’ve got some redneck in you.
Don’t be like the fascists. Don’t get lazy in your thinking. Our antagonists are human, some are very intelligent.
To defeat their ideology, we must view them accurately. Otherwise, how will we anticipate what they will do?
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Lack of empathy and utterly selfish. It enables these trash humans to take others rights and believe the lie that doing it is a good thing.
Well, they do say ignorance is bliss.
Oh boy, you have no idea how much. Imagine knowing you will be tortured for eternity.
They must be euphoric.
More like blissfully ignorant. My experience with conservatives is that they like to sweep problems under the rug and pretend everything to be fine.
I realized it’s very much this when I asked my mother (born in 1961) if she had never taken a civics class, and she answered no. She actually believed(s?) the president creates laws. I don’t know what she thought congress was.
Stupid people tend to be happier, yes it’s true.
People these days seem happiest when ostracizing, excluding, and destroying another’s life just because they are different.
Empathy is dead, because if you show empathy it’s grounds for expulsion. Anyone still capable of empathy has been ejected from society by the twitter mob over the past decade. The only people left are callous bullies.
Isn’t he that guy that plants hecklers in his audience that serve him meatballs so he can come off as clever and quick-witted?
Do you have evidence that they’re plants? This is the first I’ve heard of that accusation. He does get an unusually high number of hecklers, and it fuels a lot of his online content, so I wouldn’t be shocked if they’re plants, but I haven’t heard any definitive proof. I’d just as soon believe that people heckle him more because they think they’re smarter than his previous hecklers or want attention or something, but idk.
Yeah. The dude has a TON of heckler videos. For starters… It’s incredibly unrealistic for a comedian to be heckled that often. Secondly, his responses are always perfectly timed and executed without hesitation. Every time. With not even a slight pause or moment to collect his thoughts before tearing into the person.
Only Robin Williams is that skilled at improv.
I’ll add that he’s well known for behind a huge asshole in the comedy circuit. Look it up. And lastly, heckling generally gets you tossed out of clubs. None of his plants ever get tossed that I’ve seen.
Still not hearing any definitive proof. Professional comedians, especially well educated ones, can and do have quick and witty comebacks pretty often. And like I said, it’s possible that he gets heckled so much because of his reputation for engaging with hecklers, so it may attract overconfident hecklers to come see him.
I’m not gonna knock the late, great Robin Williams, but it’s a little weird to say that he’s the only person capable of disarming a heckler this effectively. I think most accomplished comedians could do what Steve Hofstetter does, more or less; he is much more knowledgeable about economics and civics than most probably are, so he’s able to wield that handily.
Idk anything about his reputation for being an asshole. He’s constantly getting work and tours with a consistent group and seems like a good dude, so I have my doubts, and I’m not interested in looking that up for myself when you’re not even willing to do it to prove it to me. And yes, hecklers do get tossed from his shows. He usually tries to get them to stop, and then if they don’t then he usually embarrasses them to the point that they leave on their own, but some are so shameless that they do need to be removed. That generally happens after the rest of the crowd gets so pissed off that a fight seems likely.
I’m not saying that there aren’t plants. I’m saying that I’m only seeing speculation and no actual proof to support that accusation. I’m not down with alleging that he’s a fraud when there’s no evidence to do so. Imagine destroying his livelihood just because you didn’t believe he could possibly be this good at his full time job lol. Comedians are notoriously good at this sort of thing.
Just look him up. There’s plant of people that have flowered with and for him that say he’s a huge asshole.
But for some reason, the internet loves protecting him.
There’s plant of people that have flowered with and for him that say he’s a huge asshole.
What? I’m really trying to understand, but you’re making it pretty difficult.
Just look him up.
It’s clear that you have no evidence or you wouldn’t keep telling me to do the research to find the evidence that supports your claims. I’m not sure why you think I care so much about this when you don’t even care enough to cite a single source. It’s not my job to prove you right here.
There’s really nothing unbelievable to me about his hecklers except for maybe the sheer quantity, but I’m not a comedian so maybe this isn’t actually so extreme. Maybe if I did 300 shows per year and filmed all of them, I’d have a similar trove, especially if tickets were relatively cheap and I had a reputation for being “that guy who owns hecklers”. I bet the truth is that he doesn’t plant hecklers, but every interaction with one is more content for the content farm, so he’s not actively interested in dissuading hecklers from being a problem. I’ve seen a video or two where it seemed like he was provoking somebody a little because they were quietly talking or not paying attention during the show, so by initiating over a minor thing I think he was inviting a real interruption. I don’t think he plants, but I think he welcomes drama. Maybe that’s not cool, but idk, it’s pretty much impossible to be a successful content creator without resorting to hooks or clickbait or elevating energies.
If you have proof, bring that bombshell to a journalist. If you don’t have proof and you just don’t like the guy, stop watching him.
It’s plain as day that no comedian in the world gets heckled at that frequency. That alone is enough to tell you something is up.
But there’s also tons of write-ups people have made that have worked with/for him to illustrate that he’s a huge asshole that would do that.
I’m not going to die on this hill though. I honestly don’t know why people go to such extremes to argue against someone opinions. I don’t care if or that you like this dude.
Source? Unless you can prove otherwise, I think I’m ready to call you a goddamn liar. I don’t think you’re qualified to say what a reasonable frequency of hecklers is, and you keep implying that there’s evidence but I’m not sure you’ve even seen any yourself. And if there are “tons of write-ups” on this, how do you know that they’re not just coming from people making shit up to try to destroy his career? This is why a source matters. The guy tours with the same group of people all the time. Did one of them do one of these “write-ups”? Or was it maybe one of his hecklers who was pissed off that they got tossed from one of his shows and so they wanted vengeance? Or a bitter ex? Just some hateful stranger who doesn’t like his face? Who?
The quantity of hecklers we see actually makes complete sense based on what he said in this 8-year old reddit thread.
Thanks for doing the legwork. That was a good read. It makes a lot of sense now that I see real numbers. It even makes sense that he’s pretty confrontational to establish that he won’t put up with it. Real teacher energy there lol, and I think I’ve heard him say that he was a teacher earlier in his life.
I’m glad I didn’t just outright believe that claim about plants. I was trying to be open minded if there were any credible bits of evidence to prove otherwise, but I really didn’t have any reason to believe he used plants until I saw that accusation. How fucking silly to say such a thing with absolutely nothing to back it up and keep saying “look it up.” Well you looked it up and found a reasonable explanation from the man himself lol. Thanks :)
Ahah, but how could a professional comedian - someone who is literally trained to be funny in front of an audience - be that good at being funny in front of an audience? Checkmate liberal!
Do these people have any idea how stupid they sound? This is the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time. Yes, some people are actually just really good at being witty on the spot. Not all stand up comedians just recite a bunch of prewritten jokes, most of them (especially the really good ones) teach themselves how to be improvisationally funny. These idiots sound like they’ve never seen an improv comedy show, or a British panel show or any other kind of improv comedy.
And the idea that it would be hard to get genuine hecklers by saying vaguely left wing stuff in America is even dumber. Sorry America but opinionated assholes are basically 90% of your population. If anything it’s surprising he doesn’t get more hecklers.
WTF does any of this have to do with politics? Seriously, are you really that person that injects the “checkmate libruls!” bullshit into every topic you find yourself in?
And, who are “these people?”
Do you mean these people with personal opinions that are derivative of their own observations? Because, man- I really hate to break it to you, but- that’s how shit works for everyone that thinks for themselves.
And since you made this political, I’ll say that maybe the reason you are so butt-hurt by the opinions of others lies within the fact that you people don’t like it when others think differently than what your own programming suggests.
Maybe it’s best that you work on learning not to concern yourself so much with politicizing people opinions of comedians and more time asking yourself whey you feel the need to do so to begin with…
mmmmkay?
And since you made this political, I’ll say that maybe the reason you are so butt-hurt by the opinions of others lies within the fact that you people don’t like it when others think differently than what your own programming suggests.
Yikes. Seems like you just proved their point lol. The “programming” you’re unhappy with is just critical thinking. Instead of assuming some grand conspiracy is at play, why not take a breath and consider different ideas for how things got to be the way that they are? And it’s really no secret that a lot of the hecklers are conservatives as they’re usually quite proud of that. Moderates to trump republicans to literal Nazis have heckled him. Acknowledging the reality of the political ideals of most of these hecklers is not politicizing this, it’s just pointing out facts. If that’s offensive to you, then maybe it’s you who is butt-hurt here.
Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh. Though I’m not going to apologize that I hurt your feeling by not liking your favorite comedian, I’ll just agree to disagree on something that is more than likely entirely irrelevant to both of us.
Go find an argument elsewhere.
He’s so funny, he does it for work! He’s an excellent comedian, one who doesn’t invite hecklers but will destroy them.
He’s smart because he’s educated. He’s also a sharp wit but he just generally knows a lot of shit.
Sadly, his tour stop near me is too far away so I can’t go.
He’s obnoxious. He’s not funny. And he spams his content on multiple platforms with multiple accounts.
To quote another post of yours “no one gives a shit about your preferences”
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Those hecklers are plants. How do you not know this?
Source?
You mean to tell me that you actually believe that dude gets heckled so often as to have a YouTube channel full of heckler videos- and he flawlessly delivers his responses with the wit and skill level worthy of the legendary Robin Williams without even a slight hesitation?
I don’t think proof is what you need.
source? :>
I’m guessing you also are the type of person that needs a source to prove gravity?
They made it up
Yeah I was going to say to stupid to know any better.
Love Steve. Been following him for years.
Stop censoring these people’s names and faces. They said it. They said it out loud and proud, in front of god and everyone. Why are we afraid to show them?!
Some places do have rules against name and shame, to be fair. Not sure that this is one of them, but still a safe general rule to follow.
Those places deserve pushback on that bullshit
If someone said it in public then they’re fine with it being out there
Oh, I absolutely don’t disagree with you, I can just see why people would err on the side of caution with their own posts.
You may be looking for the phrase “chilling effect”. It’s not just for legal stuff now, but for doing anything proper because it brings too much trouble.
Yes, that would work to describe it. It’s also a phenomenon that has existed since our pre-human ancestors began social relationships.
I’ve never read Flowers for Algernon.
I don’t understand why you said that, but you should. The short story is very quick.
Ignorance is bliss, and to persist with conservatism requires embracing an ever expanding level of wilful ignorance.
I wouldn’t praise Hofstetter too much. His comedy is horrendous and he relies pretty much entirely on bringing in paid hecklers. Every time he shows up on PKA, he is not just unfunny but he kills all the enjoyment of the episode.
The “paid hecklers” accusation again.
Ahem are YOU being paid? It seems a lot of people just don’t like him.
Sorry to go to Reddit here, but here’s Hofstetter on Hofstetter:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Standup/comments/5ab3ue/do_all_comedians_get_heckled_as_much_as_steve/
No shame in ~8 year old Reddit threads. It’s where all the organic content is!
