A network would have to be willing to support a conservative viewpoint. That could play a factor at least minimally.
So a super religious , family values person who is for small government and reducing our already astronomical national defense budget is not a conservative? I think what you're describing is more neoconservative, not traditional conservative. I don't think South Park qualifies as either, but then I haven't watched South Park the last 4 years or so. It may have changed.
Conservatism or Libertarinism (sp?) does not speak to religion at all or family values. That's your own stereotype. I would describe that person as libertarian. The south Park movie would absolutely be described as libertarian and traditional conservatism.
Conservatism speaks to conserving the current political/social institutions or a belief that we are straying too far from the Right path and we need to get back to how things used to be, and also placing high value on tradition. This is the essence of conservatism, hence the name. Any policies that oppose promotion of non-traditional lifestyles or oppose elevating certain "modern" rights over "traditional" rights will be popular among conservatives, generally speaking. You're right that a person who considers himself a conservative need not be religious. But supporting LGBT rights or abortion rights ahead of traditional values, to me, would be very atypical for a conservative. So we can't discount social conservatism as an integral part of the conservative tradition. There are variants, like neoconservatism, that put less emphasis on it.
absolutely false. In fact its a total contradiction to what conservatives believe which is 'to each his own' and 'live and let live'. They believe in not using force to push social views. Just say no to social engineering. small government. Again that's you stereotyping conservatism and has nothing to do with the belief system.
I think there was an effort (I believe on Fox News Channel) to have a similar show to The Daily Show and Colbert Report but I think it didn't last long.
Who are the people supporting bills to restrict abortion, discriminate against gays, support preferential treatment of immigrants based on religion? Are those liberals?
that's not a social issue. its a human rights issue as in 'when life starts'. nobody nobody. they do it based on whether you can be vetted and the country you come from. and yes it is liberals pushing social values on others. They are the ones demanding we as a country have a definition for marriage and then calling everyone bigot who doesn't agree with their definition.
Most comedians aren't smart enough to do satire in a constructive way and they end up debasing political dialogue instead of contributing to it. So I'm not really looking to have more of them.
This guy Steven Crowder has a big following but I don't think he's that funny. https://twitter.com/scrowder?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
He's literally the dumbest person to ever post on this site. There is nobody even worthy of mentioning in the same breath.
I think most comedians are pushed to the right at least a little bit by the crazy state of the left these days. I don't think anyone would consider Seinfeld a conservative by any stretch of the imagination but even he's had so much trouble with the whiny college liberals that he won't perform at colleges anymore. As to the OP's question, there's tons of Libertarian comedians but not that many that are outright "conservative"
Libertarians are usually closer to conservatives when it comes to most (but not all) fiscal policy given their support of fiscal responsibility and they are usually closer to liberals when it comes to most (but not all) social policies given their support of individual civil liberties. Also, Libertarians are a pretty diverse group. There are some who are more liberal and some who are more conservative
