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Comedy is ultimately a vehicle for modesty and humility - it makes us laugh by reminding us that life is full of absurdities and we could all become straight men or punch lines. Lefty totalitarians are devoid of humility and think their sacred beliefs should not be mocked.
Steeped in Alinsky's theories, the Left reverses them and tries to block every counter-cultural move against THEIR cultural dominance. As Communist China studied the fall of the Soviet Union, so the Left studies the 60s and aggressively prevents subversion against their hegemony.
Reversing Alinsky's tactics, the Left thinks it can manufacture consensus by enforcing reverence. If THEIR idols are above satire and criticism - if you get silenced and punished for mocking them - then you will submit to their ideas.
At the very least, by demanding reverence and squelching subversive comedy, the Left forcibly maintains a presumption of moral superiority. Society is compelled to assume good faith from leftist ideas and leaders that cannot be mocked, and bad faith from their enemies.
This is pervasive throughout left-dominated popular culture and "news" media. The Left's war on comedy is another way of reserving populism exclusively for itself and asserting all populist appeals employed by its enemies are evil, racist, greedy, homophobic, etc.
Think of any major lefty issue - climate change fanaticism, open borders, you name it - and ask yourself how often you see it satirized or mocked in pop culture. Then ask how often you see the other side derided in the harshest terms and made to look as foolish as possible.
In comedy we find humility, accepting the possibility that we might be wrong, that we are fallible and vulnerable, and we accept that possibility by laughing. Zealots do not laugh at themselves, or allow others to do so. /end
