Whereas brilliant witty ones make jokes about how dumb conservatives are? No wonder most of the audience didn't get the joke. You can tell a joke where you say

Whereas brilliant witty ones make jokes about how dumb conservatives are? No wonder most of the audience didn't get the joke. You can tell a joke where you say something "outrageous" and everyone is laughing, half the audience is laughing because the joke is "there are actually people that believe that" and the other half is laughing because "it's true but you're not allowed to say it". Or you can do it backwards, and half the audience is thinking "that's not funny, it's just mean", and the other half is thinking "I don't even see anything tat's trying to be a joke".