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Fools are found both left and right
And clowns are often fools
But claiming one extreme cannot laugh
Is generally the act of tools
(IE: The whole argument over whether the far left or the far right have senses of humour at all, tends to forget that a sense of humour is often a symptom of paying attention to politics - which leads to strong opinions on both sides.
The right often seems humourless from a leftwing perspective, particularly the far right, but it would be more accurate to say it has a different sense of humour, which is currently less popular, rather than that it is incapable of laughter to start off with. The same with the far left from a rightwing perspective.
Also, the facts just don't follow the hypothesis that leftwingers are humourless, as I pointed out, there are a lot of leftwingers whose bread and butter is making people laugh, and a lot of them are pretty far on the left.)
