Comedian Paul Chato Explains How John Oliver Uses Comedy To Lie
A 42-minute rant deconstructed in 12 minutes
Comedy legend and former network executive Paul Chato has deconstructed John Oliver’s rant against women having sports of their own. Chato notes the dishonest use of “juxtaposition,” the “list joke,” and deflection. Oliver minimizes the unfairness of female athletes at having to compete against males, but he gives the game away when he uses the word “cis” and interviews Joanna Harper, a man, about women’s sports.
Chato uses juxtaposition to expose the lie. He contrasts Harper’s statement that no male transitions solely to dominate women’s sports with the faces of males who are clearly enraptured by their physical domination of females. “None of these look like winning,” Chato says. “They look like they hate women.” A 42-minute John Oliver bit is thoroughly taken apart in twelve minutes. Behold the power of comedy.
During my youth, Chato was a member of a Canadian comedy group called The Frantics. Dr. Demento listeners will recall their hilarious “Boot to the Head” sketch. Chato moved on to work in broadcast television specializing in sitcoms. His main YouTube channel occasionally delves into old issues of TV Guide to examine what shows worked, and which did not. He also appears frequently on other YouTube culture commentary channels.
References to contemporary technology are too often cheap laughs, as Chato notes. Oliver also frames the argument against males in female sports as a battle with religious extremists on the political right. In fact, like most opponents of political transgenderism, Paul Chato started out on the left.
The reason John Oliver had to use a laugh track for this hit piece is that most American voters disagree with him. In fact, most Democratic voters disagree with him. The audience that can genuinely laugh at Payton McNabb being permanently disabled by a grown boy on a volleyball court is actually quite small compared to the general population, and their laughter is not suitable for general audiences.
Paul Chato’s website is here.
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Nice piece, thanks for posting.
I had the unnerving feeling there is a school for unfunny men who get on late night and berate something which somehow offends them as men.
Unctuous with a fine rainbow sheen of tawdriness. In the trans case of course pure transplaining to women.
He the classic case of a man who thinks men imitating women is just fine, and is somewhat in awe of them.
Men go into women’s sports not to compete but to gain unwanted emotional and sexual access to women.
Animals do it. It’s called sexual mimicry.