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No.6
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Post some socialist comedy works. Films, comedian sets, parody, culture jamming, whatever. It's not too hard to find regular writers sneaking in socialist inspiration but far less openly socialist creations.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is an Italian play set during the Years of Lead. This performance is by an English socialist theatre group Belt and Braces. It's a great comedy and very bluntly political too, which is an excellent combination to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p10xejjf0pw
No.60
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La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (Can Dialectics Break Bricks?), a Situationist film which is a French-dubbed parody of a martial arts film Crush, which was about the anti-colonial revolt in Korea. Through the dub, it becomes very direct political satire:
>The narrative focuses on a conflict between proletarians and bureaucrats within state capitalism. The proletarians enlist their grasp of dialectics in the fight against their oppressors, while the bureaucrats defend themselves using a combination of co-optation and violence.
>The film also contains numerous celebratory references to socialists, including Marx, Bakunin, and Wilhelm Reich, as well as scathing criticism directed toward the French Communist Party, trade unionism and Maoism.

I personally wasn't a fan, it also has strong 'leftist-infighting' vibes, but I respect it. The creator did another détournement dub next year, over a Japanese S&M softcore-porno film... so there's that. (The Girls of Kamare, pic2rel)
No.86 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDvfFIZQIuQ

This is honestly the best movie I've seen in years. The movie follows a male model and his influencer girlfriend as they take a luxury cruise... 

Don't want to ruin it but it is a black comedy with appearance by Woody Harrelson 

Large chunks of Chomsky are read out. 

Its hilarious all the way through
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No.113 
A few of the jokes by Monty Python makes me suspect that possibly one or more of the writers were socialists. Some examples are:
>the end of the Bicycle Repairman skit, an obvious jab at anticommunists
>the constitutional peasants in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who formed an 'anarcho-syndicalist collective' ('oh there you go bring classes into everything again!')
>the Judean People's Front/People's Front of Judea splitting (although this is politcally agnostic, it shows an awareness of the splitting of nicher radical political groups)
There's also a generalised mocking of mass media, conservatives and the upper class.
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No.116
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>>113
I'm not confident enough to call any of them socialists, but they're certainly politically aware and left-leaning as a collective. Party Hints and Bicycle Repair Man blatantly mock anti-communism, while the scenes in Holy Grail and Life of Brian are jabs at 1970s British left-wing orgs (although they're pretty timeless), such as splitting with similar names no-one can keep track of, Trot splits with one person, and enthusiastic nerds using technical jargon alienating the layperson.
I've compressed these pretty hard so if you want them in high quality (or can't play AV1 video) then find them on YouTube.
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No.118 
>>86
It's only the opening credits and we're well past Fight Club levels of homoeroticism. Alrighty then. Opening reminds me of Zoolander's opening, but more serious, more funny and not dumb.
No.119
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I recognise that song.
This film is about to get good.
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No.120 
>>119
Is the song New Noise by Refused by any chance? Yeh, so fucking good man. I don't want to do any spoilers but god damn, haven't laughed so hard in so long. The soundtrack in general is bang on
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No.121 
>>119
interested to know what you made of the last section, which was for me maybe the bit of the film that didn't land as well as the rest
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No.122 
also... apologies for the triple post, if you like that, you will probably also like his other movie The Square, less overtly lefty, but definitely there are some lefty themes. It pokes fun at the art world a lot, a lot of absurdist humour. I'm planning to watch his other film Force Majore soon as well
No.127 
>>120
nah its L'internationale m8, but good to know. The soundtrack was great.
No.128 
>>121
I see what you mean and normally that style of ending doesn't fly well with me, but I did like it and important themes/dynamics were still there and meaningful. But damn, I did miss the middle of the film... 90 minutes of that direct to DVD would be bliss.
No.139 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy96iuq94Ko

not socialist but some comedy with socialist themes
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>>139
I didn't hear any socialist themes in that set.
Like OP said, it's easy to find regular writers adding socialist ideas so let's not dilute the thread with comedies which aren't openly socialist.
No.149
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No.157 
What do people think about Stavros hailkas? Can't decide if I hate him or think hes funny, or maybe hes funny but also I hate him. Something about Chapoid stuff annoys me but his crowd work stuff is good. I know he's barely left wing in his bits really, but he does come from that side of stuff
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No.159 
>>157
to continue this, I watched his new netflix comedy special and it kinda sucked. He spends a large portion talking about how he gave a load of shit to an airline worker because his flight got cancelled. Part of what he says is like "you're an airline worker I don't have to respect you" 

 In terms of "left wing" there is a couple stabs at tech, and a comment about jobs needing to pay enough to eat, but thats pretty much it. 

His crowd work stuff online at smaller shows is kinda funny, but in terms of doing a set it doesn't really land. (sorry if this is all off thread, I feel it counts being hes a chaposhere person)
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No.160 
>>157
>>159
I hadn't heard of them (I never listened to Chapo or other dirtbag podcasters), checked out some footage and I see what you mean, their crowd work looked funny enough but nothing really grabbed me, and I couldn't even find anything socialist when I tried to.

>>149
Excellent political comedy. This is a televised act of class warfare.
No.179
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Sorry to Bother You, a political satire written and directed by communist Boots Riley.
>Boots Riley describes the film as "an absurdist dark comedy with aspects of magical realism and science fiction inspired by the world of telemarketing". The screenplay for Sorry to Bother You was inspired by his own time working as a telemarketer and telefundraiser in California and his need to put on a different voice to find success.
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No.195
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>>86
Donald Trump moment.
No.196
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>>179
Speaking of Boots Riley, there are bound to be a few socialists singing comedy.
Phil Ochs – Love Me, I'm a Liberal (1965) is a fun song, although most of the references are clearly of its time. Lucky for us, there's no shortage of updated cover versions!
A couple of great recent examples:
>Ben Grosscup cover (2022) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsFutdmGKik
>Pink Williams cover (2023) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2G3mBny-0c
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No.197 
>>179
Riley has an uncanny ability to predict the future.
>Boots Riley has said that the film offers a radical class analysis of capitalism, not a specific analysis of the United States under President Donald Trump. He wrote the initial screenplay during Barack Obama's administration, and the target was never any specific elected official or movement, but "the puppetmasters behind the puppets". While most of the final script remained the same, minimal changes were made to avoid appearing to critique Trump specifically, including removing a line where a character says "Worry Free is making America great again," written before Trump used the line in his 2016 presidential campaign. 
This isn't the first time they've had to make adjustments after hitting a bit too close to reality: see >>136
No.202 
>>196
This kinda feels like a pre-Internet meme, in the way that it's a short sharp funny little template which people continually update and mutate to fit a new context.
I've already found two covers about Palestine one is actually from 2021 but could easily have been sung yesterday.
No.204 
>>196
>there are bound to be a few socialists singing comedy.
We certainly have a knack for satire.

David Rovics – Vanguard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88nMWvCZSY

Joe Glazer and Bill Friedman – The Ultimate Sectarian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxsSEwsn5-Y

You've just reminded me, I talked to the manager of the 4chan Cup /pol/eague a couple of years ago possibly the only one in there whose brain wasn't rotten on culture war race crap and I found out they were a fan of Bat'ko's songs back in the day.
No.214 
>>179
This was probably the best movie of that year. Having worked in a call center and sales it really hit that much harder as well.
No.387
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>>196
The Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon (RIP) version goes hard.
No.667 
Brennan Lee Mulligan, improv comic and creator/DM of the #2 most popular D&D actual play series (Dimension 20) is pretty openly a communist, and consistently injects overt anti-capitalist and pro-socialist content into his material, both the D&D and the comedy. His boss tends to bait him into doing it too despite being more of a liberal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oXiFuPCU6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FccWP9n7rXw

>>116
>not posting the philosopher football sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOKsJViHtY
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No.694 
>>667
>His boss tends to bait him into doing it too despite being more of a liberal.
Punching up is funny to watch, and if you're not into racism, then radical socialism is your edgy touch of choice.
One of my (distant) coworkers is popular and openly socialist, and sometimes people, me included, will bait them into a passionate rant at the bar after work because it's fun to listen to, and more interesting to discuss than hurr durr woke cancel burr da joos. well i also do it consciously to start socialist conversations and they will happily seize the excuse to redpill everyone on the corporate bullshit
No.696
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>>116
>>667
I just noticed, a core part of the humour in the World Forum (aka. Communist Quiz) sketch comes from the host asking Marx, Lenin, etc. about present-day English football trivia, rather than politics and economy.
The world communist leaders are naturally stumped, but Marx lived in London for many years so they might have actually had half a chance at the questions.
No.791
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>>149
The joke at the end is a great punchy jab at reformism - by ridiculously proposing "we should peacefully campaign for a law that allows us to kill the people blocking those laws", it's illustrating how silly peaceful democratic™ reformism is when we face systematic problems.
No.825
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>>667
>the philosopher football sketch
Marx at it again with the correct answers.
No.861
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>>86
The Menu (2022) is in the same vein; comedic, dark and class aware. This time, with themes of commodity fetishisation and alienation.
I decided to watch it immediately after spoiling the entire plot (since I didn't plan on watching it) and it was even then still a great film.
No.864 
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