No respect: Nick DiPaolo, conservative comedian

By DiPaolo’s own account, when he ventures onto explicitly ideological terrain to mock the Left and its hypocrisies, his young audience is often as stunned as it is entertained. Catch one of his old appearances on the web, and you’ll get the idea. Take, for instance, the Minnesota club date he did in the wake of the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal. When DiPaolo launches into the routine by noting that one of his favorite topics is the refusal of the media to talk straight about race and underclass culture, the place instantly goes silent. “Look how quiet it’s getting,” observes DiPaolo, who then gives voice to the audience reaction: “Holy shit, where’s he going with this? This is going to get ugly!” Where he’s going is that he recently heard a pair of white ESPN announcers discussing the Vick case, declaring that the story had absolutely nothing to do with race. “No, you’re right,” DiPaolo agrees, mockingly. “There’s a lot of white people making $60 million a year having dogfights behind the garage on weekends. Yeah, right now Bill Gates and a bunch of guys from Microsoft have 50 Yorkshire terriers in sweaters yelling, ‘Go get ’em, Bianca! Get him, Fluffy!’ ”

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DiPaolo says that at such moments, the laughs he gets are at first tentative and uneasy. “People in their twenties, their brains have been turned to mush from what they’ve been taught in college. They’re afraid to laugh, they know they’re not supposed to. So the trick is getting them to laugh despite themselves, because they know deep down you’re telling the truth.”

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