Isn’t it telling how the best comedy, the kind with real bite, the kind that challenges our thinking and mocks our sacred cows, rarely comes from today’s woke Hollywood? Instead, it seems to drift in from across the pond, landing here in America just in time to remind us how clever humor used to be. Case in point? ‘Red Dwarf,’ the brilliant sci-fi sitcom from the BBC, co-created by the late Rob Grant—a man who understood that you don’t need a bloated budget or virtue-signaling to get folks laughing.
Americans who actually appreciate good television (not the mind-numbing garbage pushed by coastal elites) know that British comedies have long been the gold standard. They’re not just goofy sketches or sanitized family sitcoms. Shows like ‘Red Dwarf’ deliver sharp wit and clever satire, not the dumbed-down content targeted at the so-called “lowest common denominator” here at home. Maybe that’s why they have to put all that garbage on streaming: nobody with sense is sitting through it.
‘Red Dwarf’ is the opposite of the kind of “progressive” media we’re choking on today. It doesn’t cram a leftist agenda down our throats, pretending every character needs to check a DEI box. Instead, you see a scrappy cast—like Dave Lister, the ultimate slob, or a sanitation robot named Kryten—stuck on a mining ship in deep space. It’s about flawed people making do, not hand-wringing over identity politics or scolding us about the planet. It’s creative, it’s irreverent, and it’s exactly what comedy should be: subversive toward the powerful, not pandering to them.
What’s really sad is how the left has tried to erase this kind of humor from our screens. They can’t stand anything that steps outside their rigid guidelines. When’s the last time a network gave us a show that’s just silly and fun, not overloaded with social lectures? Rob Grant’s genius was setting up a universe where nothing was sacred, and everyone was fair game. No one got a free pass, not even the last human being in existence. You think you’d ever get a show like that greenlit under today’s diversity-obsessed censors? Forget it.
So while elitists and globalists try to push bland conformity and punish everyone who won’t play along, fans who know better will keep putting on those old Red Dwarf DVDs and laughing. Rob Grant leaves behind a legacy that cuts right through the noise and reminds us what we used to have—real comedy, made by free thinkers. How much longer will we let the woke mob kill off everything that’s actually funny?
Source: Redstate
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