May 18, 2021
Babylon Bee CEO: How The Left Is Killing Comedy
by PragerU
DailyWire.com
In a recent 5-minute video for PragerU, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon breaks down how the Left is making it harder to write satire, in part by attempting to censor humorous content.
Founded in 2016, The Babylon Bee has quickly made a name for itself as a Christian conservative website on the cutting-edge of satire for politics and other current events. But in the years since its founding, the Bee and its satirical headlines and stories have been coming true with “astonishing regularity,” notes Dillon.
Back in May of 2017, the Babylon Bee ran a satirical headline that read, “‘2+2=4,’ Insists Closed-Minded Bigot.” Yet only three years later, The Washington Examiner, a right-leaning newspaper based in Washington, D.C., published an article headlined “Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 ‘reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.’”
Another Babylon Bee story, says Dillon, was published in August of 2020 and titled, “BLM Rioters Awarded Nobel Peace Prize.” Several months later, at the beginning of 2021, The Guardian published an article about the Black Lives Matter movement receiving a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. (The winner of the prize won’t be selected until October 2021).
Truly great satire, argues Dillon, only becomes harder to write as reality becomes crazier — counter to what some people might think. This is because “satire exaggerates the truth to make a point,” says Dillon. “But when reality is this absurd, and extreme views and behavior are commonplace, how do you go a step beyond it.”
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