Bill Burr and the Cultural War | Ola Söderholm

It is of course not good if Bill Burr chooses your page in the Cultural War

In a head In the American court of justice Outkick Basanera Det That “Bill Burr, who was a really funny comedian, has become an unbearable Trump hating loser”.

With its broad Boston -Dialect and his “angry man of the people” Nergi has Bill Burr Had an almost unique capacity among the standup stars to swing hard on the most sensitive questions and still to prevent them from being placed in one or the other political union. The Red and Blue USA, as well as both sides of the global Americanized Cultural War, have agreed that Bill Bur is a nice bastard.

Maybe that time is over. During the spring, with the new stand -up special “Drop Dead Years” (Disney+) and the next marketing tour in talk shows benches and Podstudios has grown into a red cloth for the Trump ear. Tirader about the healing Tesla-Oligists with “colored hair plugs and laminated face” and about the coldness of Israelhökar for killed children made the right-wing organs while the mentioned Outick Burr starts to judge as a speech tube for the enemy.

At the same time it has The liberal camp began to hope for him as an ally. In Slate writes Luke Winkie About Bill Bur as an unknown populist power. Although Burr occasionally expresses opinions about the Metoo movement that are “problematic” for the slave-reading people, he should embrace him. The fact that he combines leads to hypocritical liberals with upset about Oligar and unbridled inequality makes him a fan rager for the dissatisfied “ordinary voters” who are alienated from the left -wing American elite.

Kristofer Ahlström Writes in DN On the same theme that it is refreshing with a aging comedian who, unlike their colleagues – Ricky Gervais” Dave Chappelle And Russel -brand – Can perform a correct power analysis and is not only stuck in aging by awake and transgender people. Ahlström believes that Burr can be left Joe Rogan.

The question is whether this politicization of Burr should be welcomed, even if he is from a progressive perspective in the “good” team? Is it rather a sign of a crisis for comic strip (and for the entire audience) that even Bill Burr cannot prevent them from being reduced to cultural warriors?

Alfie Bown, researcher Within the digital humanities at London University, it is of the opinion that humor with a universal subsidy will find it more difficult to claim when the common public space falls apart and we remain in private social worlds and networks instead. The command based on solidarity is replaced by creating enemy creation and identity -binding humor. Bown writes in the book “Post-Comedy” from 2024, using the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacans Theories, about how the laughter that starts in the fact that we are all beings with a shortage in our core, is being replaced by laughing of a position of superiority. We laugh in an attempt to convince ourselves that within our identity group we are perfect and authentic topics that are justified, while only those suffer from a shortage. They are “deplolables”, “libtards” or just completely irrational idiots.

An effect of development, according to Alfie Bown, is that it will be a rule instead of exceptions with “didactic humor” – teaching humor. A patronizing reading or a passive aggressive grin that says: “Are you activated now?” Everything to confirm the perfection of your own group.

In one interview Med the New Yorker Bill Burr is all about the attempts to categorize him as a debater. He describes himself as apolitical and that his task is just fun to be fun. He says that journalists should stop his jokes as “explanations”.

It may sound strange of a person who often says extremely categorical things about sensitive political issues, who sit and scream “Free Luigi!” In “Jimmy Kimmel Live” – ​​aimed at Luigi Mangione It is suspected of killing the CEO of insurance giant United Healthcare. It may seem cowardly because Bur does not want to take responsibility for what he says and hides behind the excuse “I’m just a clown”.

At the same time it is possible to understand how he means. Although Bill Burr often talks about politics and the news, he differs from such as like John Oliver” Bill Maher And Joe Rogan. These are in the didactic speech and their respective target groups look at them to find out what they should think about the news. At Bill Bur you prefer to look to see an ordinary person respond on the news. Someone who is fun and real, but not superior. Someone who is struggling with himself and has the opportunity to build solidarity by showing his own – and therefore everyone’s shortage. That vulnerability is the core of the universal comic.

At a time when so much is at stake, you may think that nothing is more important than taking a clear position and that it would be welcome if even Bill Burr would completely become an ally of a debater. But the question is whether it is not even more important by expansion – also politically – with a common audience where we can meet in the fact that we all have a shortage in our core.

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