Right-Wing Content Creator Exposed for Stealing John Mulaney’s Slur Routine
Pretty soon, some conservative content creator is going to go viral with his hilarious story involving a diner jukebox and Tom Jones.
The last nine years of American culture’s slide to the right have proven that conservatives simply aren’t funny. When the political majority’s headlining comedians are Rob Schneider, a not-nearly-lucid Roseanne Barr and a professional open-mic host who once bombed so hard he nearly lost President Donald Trump the 2024 election, we know that American comedy culture is in a rough state, and the deluge of “comedic” culture warrior content on platforms that the Right previously wanted to ban has only exacerbated the GOP’s humor problem.
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So when popular conservative TikToker, author and alleged drunk driver Joseph “The Older Millennial” Redden decided to make a “humorous” post on the controversial Chinese spyware app about political correctness and the sarcastic online movement to use the word “clanker” as a slur for artificial intelligence models earlier this month, he took a stroll over to the left side of the culture war and stole some jokes from an older, funnier and better Millennial to build his routine:
Clearly, The Older Millennial’s riff on what is an explicitly humorous slang phrase that no one is offended over is an inferior knockoff of John Mulaney's routine on comparing words that contemporary audiences may consider slurs to the n-word from his 2012 breakout special New in Town. “Yeah this was funny when John Mulaney said it first…” the top comment under Redden’s TikTok reads.
“This is a great John Mulaney bit,” another TikTok user agreed.
One more asked, “What other John Mulaney bits do you do??”
Redden’s appropriation of Mulaney’s classic bit soon escaped his half-million-plus following as other Millennials jumped in to marvel at the audacity of this un-funny author who ripped off his generation’s most beloved and successful stand-up just to riff on a complete non-controversy.
Quickly, Redden tried to cover his tracks and claim that he wasn’t trying to hide his joke theft, and, rather, he was simply borrowing the Mulaney bit for his “clankers” video without making any mention of the source material. “Yeah, I know that’s a John Mulaney joke,” Redden said in his response to the latter viral TikTok that mocked his “homage” to Mulaney. “That’s why I said it, because everybody knows that joke!”
“The weird thing is being upset that I said it,” Redden remarked as he attempted to turn the tables on his critics. “Do you know what’s gotta be going on in your life to be triggered by the fact that I used a John Mulaney joke in a video? Happy people don’t get offended by shit like that. People with a life don’t get upset and make a video talking about somebody else’s video talking about a joke.”
No, happy people just rip off a comedian’s joke without so much as an “as John Mulaney said…” in hopes that their following dropped their Netflix subscriptions as soon as the streamer started adding LGBTQ+ categories. Happy people awkwardly stumble through a paraphrasing of a popular comedy routine under the pretense of an original reaction to a made-up controversy, then they try to gaslight their critics and accuse haters of being “triggered.”
Happy people drive drunk while on probation and then resist arrest when they get caught — or, at least, so says the Pinellas County Sherrif's Office. I bet Redden got some great ideas for some Law & Order impressions out of that happy incident.
