Elon Musk bashes liberals for having 'no sense of humor': 'Essence of comedy is to reveal the truth'

Multi-billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk argued that leftists have "no sense of humor" because their worldview is "premised on a lie," during an interview with parody site the Babylon Bee.

"The essence of comedy is to reveal the truth. A hidden truth that people understand intuitively or explicitly, and there’s that moment of revealed, kernel of often unacknowledged truth. And in that unacknowledged truth is the humor," Musk said in the interview posted to Twitter Wednesday.

"If you’re premised on a lie, you can no longer be funny, because there’s no revealed truth," he added.

That’s the reason, Musk said, that many liberals aren’t funny.

"A lot of people on the left have no sense of humor. They’re not funny. If there are so many no-fly zones that you have to avoid all the time then there’s nothing left to make fun about."

Musk has often come under attack from liberal media sources and prominent journalists for jokes that he has made on and off of Twitter. Most recently, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at Musk for allowing a parody account making fun of her to exist on Twitter.

"FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility. It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread. I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see," she wrote.... (Read more)

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