What is the purpose of comedy?

Comedy is a way for people to approach life’s difficulties wryly and safely. It is supposed to foster a sense of social connection.

Yet comedy, at least here in the States, is no longer that. Late-night comics have long been on the dying end of humor because they no longer help us connect and laugh with each other. Instead, they widen the political divide.

Take black comedian Drew Desbordes. Earlier this year, “Druski” decided to try out a new genre for his comedy routine: whiteface. He not only dressed up as a white redneck NASCAR fan at Talladega, but he also did an entire sketch mocking megachurch pastors.

This outrageous new “whiteface” routine garnered Druski a ton of attention. So, naturally, he continued to push this so-called comedy until someone got mad enough to demand he be canceled.

Well, this past weekend, Druski posted a video on X with the comment, “How Conservative Women in America act.”

How Conservative Women in America act 😂🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4DQesE0gBg

— DRUSKI (@druski) March 25, 2026

In the video, Druski is again in whiteface, only this time as a grotesque parody of Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika.

Charlie himself was delighted to have been mocked in a “South Park” episode because it meant his conservative ideas had entered mainstream dialogue in a way that could not be ignored.

Conservative women are also fine with laughing at ourselves. We are constantly the butt of leftist jokes on the Internet. Admittedly, some things we believe and do will not make sense if one lacks sense.

Druski’s sketch wasn’t a general roasting of white conservative women. His mild attempts at that — with scenes at Starbucks, singing in the car, and pilates — were at least somewhat relatable. The bulk of his sketch, however, was an outright mockery of Erika. He dressed like her, copied her mannerisms, and tore her to pieces. He deliberately painted her as a racist, saying that white men were the only ones who mattered, and further portrayed her as crazy by mocking her intense stare and her Christian faith.

Erika is not really fair game for comedy. She is a highly public figure, not by choice but by tragic circumstance. She stepped up to the plate to protect her husband’s legacy after he was murdered just six months ago by a leftist assassin. Her misery and her having to navigate her grief in front of the whole world are not fodder for someone’s enrichment. God knows how much money Druski made off that video.

As OutKick founder Clay Travis pondered, “Erika Kirk’s husband was assassinated in September. It’s March & a black comedian is putting on white face & mocking her in a video. Honest question, if a prominent black leader had been assassinated & a white comedian put on blackface & mocked his widow, what would happen?”

The Left losing its mind is what would happen. Yet there has been no real outcry among bleeding-heart liberals for Erika Kirk. Part of the reason is that podcaster Candace Owens and other charlatans have painted Erika as some sort of malicious villain in Charlie’s death. This poor widow is getting persecuted by the radicals on the Left and on the Right.

The Daily Wire’s Chloe Trapanotto illustrates why this is such a jarring and toxic approach to comedy:

God forbid Barack Obama passed away — shot in front of thousands of people, the moment captured on every phone in the crowd and splashed across every screen in the country within minutes — and Michelle Obama was left to pick up the pieces, preserve his legacy, and carry the torch in the only way she knew how. Do you think you would see ultra-famous white comedians painting themselves in blackface and mocking the way she grieves? Without consequence? Without wall-to-wall outrage? No. Of course not. Because that would be racist, and it would be cruel, and everyone would say so loudly and immediately. When the shoe is on the other foot, no one seems to care.

Trapanotto accurately calls Druski’s sketch “cruelty in makeup.”

Drew Desbordes’s latest stunt has at least compelled advertisers like T-Mobile to use distancing language, though a fair number have decided to ignore it. Druski still has his job, still has his following, and still is likely on to his next clickbait routine. Utterly disgusting.

Such “comedy” highlights the hypocrisy and inconsistency we constantly see from our virtue-signaling, assassination-celebrating leftists. Whiteface is fine, but blackface is bad — unless you are a politician they like or need to defend.

Making fun of a widow and her public grief is appalling. At the end of the day, it is not comedy; it is hatred with window dressing.