They laughed when Sears mimed shooting a hypothetical guy who introduced himself with his pronouns, and when he kept slipping in jokes about Joe Biden’s senility. They wanted some relief from America’s ever-present woke culture inside a little comedic dungeon where they could laugh at penis jokes for five minutes and the tightening leftist strangleholds on their everyday lives for much longer. Many came wearing Sears’ or other politically right shirts and American flag designs and after the show swarmed his merch table to buy more.įrom the enthusiastic audience feedback to Sears’ overtly political show, it was clear attendees wanted backup for their repressed and belittled non-PC beliefs. In his standup, Sears played directly to that niche, and his audience was there for it. So few comics are conservative, and I play to a niche audience. What happened is that my audience has grown exponentially, since the majority of comics lean left. I realized if I spoke of my personal truth, I would possibly lose some of my audience, but I had to follow my heart and be true to myself. During the spring of 2020, me being pro-freedom caused some backlash. I was never political before, but I’m insanely behind freedom. Giving up freedom became a movement on the left. … Pro-freedom became a conservative movement. When COVID hit, I started realizing our freedoms are being taken away. Although his press team politely declined an interview with The Federalist for this article (maybe they wanted me to cough up the extra $75 for the Q&A?), last year Sears told a lefty Spokane, Washington, newspaper interviewer that the ruling class’s Covid oppression transformed his political apathy into white-hot flames. Onstage as online, Sears wasn’t nuanced about going for the political jugular. It’s also likely one consideration - besides money and career leveling up - behind Sears developing his own email list and going on tour. YouTube has taken down a few of his videos, another indication of his success. “How to Be a Woke White Person” has hit more than 3 million. A video featuring his jacked male body in a female racing swimsuit is at nearly 5 million views. His videos regularly rake in hundreds of thousands of views, sometimes millions. Sears’ AwakenWithJP YouTube channel is now at 2.7 million subscribers. His summer tour not only sold out repeatedly, but superfans also coughed up double to do a group Q&A with him after each show. Pioneering a form of comedy that could be called “clapter for the right” also appears to have amped Sears’ career. The ruling class’s Covid policies inflamed a hippie-projecting guy into a biting satirist of the woke left. It was that response, the long-haired redhead told the audience, that moved the oddball YouTuber’s mission “from making people laugh to waking them up.”īefore 2020, Sears was a YouTuber who pilloried other social tics, like psychosomatic gluten sensitivities and the narcissism of the “spiritual, but not religious” crowd. Still, the sold-out flyover audience roared and cheered as Sears repeatedly sucker-punched the global ruling class’s irrational and authoritarian Covid response.
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