[ale] RIP Dilbert

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That made me think of my issue with comedians who got bitter rather than funny.   I loved George Carlin for years but couldn't watch him long before he passed.  Jay Mohr was never one of my favorites but he became just unfunny after he came back.    Recently I tried to watch Kathy Griffin's Youtube special but turned it off without finishing it because it was mainly a rant about what had happened to her.   Each of them had what I thought were good reasons for complaining about how they'd been treated or how things were going but none of that was why I thought them funny.   If I want that kind of vitriol I can just watch Cable News.  

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Subject: Re: [ale] RIP Dilbert

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:05:20PM -0800, Ron via Ale wrote:
> Anyway, he could've quit while he was ahead (ala Calvin & Hobbes, for 
> example), but didn't and wore out his welcome most everywhere.

I stopped reading Dilbert before Adams went off the deep end politically, becuase the strips started getting downright _mean_.

He forgot the cardinal rule of comedy in that you're supposed to punch _up_ to power, not down onto the powerless.  Somewhere along the way he became the very thing he used to mock.

(Adams' career arc reminds me a lot of Ricky Gervais in that respect..)

 - Solomon
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