Mitha Tiwāna Here’s the current state of comedy in America:

An AI-rendered video of naked Trump wandering the desert, narrated by his own junk = NOT FUNNY.

An AI-rendered video of Obama being arrested in handcuffs = Certified MAGA Hilarity™.

That’s the bar now. Or rather, the limbo stick. Welcome to comedy under conservatism, where the only thing lower than the approval rating is the punchline.

Trump and his followers have always had a brittle relationship with humor. They love to dish it out—mock immigrants, minorities, trans people, the disabled, and women—but the moment the joke’s on them? Suddenly it’s “fourth-rate,” “disgusting,” “cancel-worthy.” Especially if it’s animated. Especially if it’s South Park.

Last week, the White House threw a fit over South Park’s portrayal of President Trump—naked, delirious, wandering through a digital wasteland while his genitalia offered commentary like a disgraced televangelist. It was profane. It was grotesque. And yes, it was funny.

Too funny.

Which is why the president responded the only way conservatives know how when comedy makes them uncomfortable: he whined. Loudly.

He called the show desperate, irrelevant, uninspired. Which is odd coming from a man whose jokes usually involve pretending to be a transgender bodybuilder or inventing nicknames like a drunk uncle who just discovered Twitter.

To be clear: this is the same president who just days earlier posted a deepfake video of Barack Obama being arrested. No satire. No disclaimer. No joke. Just a wish-fulfillment fantasy rendered in pixels and fascism.

This is what passes for humor on the right. Punching down. Always down. Never clever, never subversive, never aimed at power—because they are the power now, and power hates a mirror.

And let’s be honest: conservatives suck at comedy. Because they don’t understand it.

One, comedy relies on a setup, a tension-build — and unexpected punchline. Conservatives don’t like the unexpected. Plus, comedy is irreverent, a conservative no-no.

Finally, they confuse cruelty with chortles. They think “owning the libs” is a setup. They mistake bigotry for wit. It’s why every time a right-winger tries to launch a late-night show, it crashes faster than Trump’s reading level.

Remember that Gutfeld disaster? Exactly.

Meanwhile, the people who actually know how to land a joke—Colbert, Behar, Stewart, South Park—are being targeted. Threatened. Canceled. Because they committed the cardinal sin of satire: they laughed at the king.

And this king is a jester in denial.

When your entire ideology is built on victimhood and vengeance, there’s no room for punchlines. Only propaganda.

So yes, Trump is mad about a cartoon. Again. But this isn’t just about South Park. It’s about the conservative war on humor itself.

Because the right doesn’t want to be funny.

They want to be feared.

And that’s the saddest joke of all.