Dave Rubin is the homosexual podcaster who rented wombs so he could do what Pete Buttigieg did. Larry Elder is the libertarian radio host who runs unserious political campaigns to boost his career. Together along with JP Sears, they created an adult animated sitcom to air on Twitter/X. And somehow, it’s even worse than the Daily Wire’s Mr. Burchum. Consider its trailer:
“The South Park of 𝕏”
— The New Norm Show (@XNewNorm) June 25, 2024
“Legalize humor!!” 😂
Check the mini PILOT of the first animated sit-com on 𝕏 featuring @larryelder @RubinReport @AwakenWithJP and a special appearance by an animated @elonmusk
👇👇👇 Support this show and help fight the “woke mind virus” with laughter!… pic.twitter.com/GsLSvODjQB
Mr. Birchum was panned for being too on the nose. As I wrote previously on the subject:
But if you want the scientific explanation for why Mr. Birchum isn’t funny, it’s because the show is on the nose and lacks irony.
However, the trailer showcased how this show was not actually a comedy at all. Mr. Birchum is more accurately a power fantasy. A power fantasy is a narrative or story in which the protagonist is endowed with extraordinary abilities or attributes, allowing them to overcome challenges and obstacles with relative ease. This typically results in a sense of satisfaction and escapism for the reader or viewer, as they become immersed in a world where the protagonist is powerful and dominant. In the case of Mr. Birchum being an irreverent boomercon highschool teacher in a sea of wokeness is evidently the height of imagination over at the Daily Wire. The audience is meant to feel smug after watching.
The New Norm embodies much of the same lack of irony found in Birchum, only the premise is far worse. I wrote how if the premise for Mr. Birchum was tweaked, it would introduce a little irony and thus be funny. However, New Norm is an homage to Archie Bunker’s All In The Family. As a Millennial, I don’t even know whether that show even holds up over time. But what’s certain is that laugh tracks do not.
Like Mr. Birchum, New Norm is a power fantasy. But for some reason, these comedic brains create a power fantasy where the main characters are all absolute losers. It’s titular character is a terrible father who drinks gay beer, lets his daughter be “nonbinary,” and whines too much. His Black best friend and boss, similarly is a terrible father, as he lets his son become a transvestite. Mr. Birchum has the same trope as the Black best friend, and while I understand that Archie Bunker pioneered that trope, these edgeless “comedies” seem to only want to portray White characters as true villains.
The premise of the mini-pilot is that a woke parole officer is living with Norm to “rehabilitate” him during his house arrest which is also supervised by an AI akin to the villains of Portal or Wall-E. I couldn’t tell whether the other female character was his wife, but if so would further contribute to the emasculation on screen.
Comedies can rely on shock value, but to last longer they need characters. New Norm fails on this front abysmally as every single character is unlikable, undesirable, and insufferable in their own way. And while characters in Seinfeld and Always Sunny In Philadelphia revel in their narcissism, the writing is self-aware that they aren’t good people. New Norm treats a character who looks too old to have a high school aged daughter as a downtrodden blue-collar American inundated with wokeness he doesn’t understand and not a loser that let this happen to him.
Conservative Inc is doing worse comedy than the liberals and even the Christian film industry is not this cringeworthy in its plot setups.
