watch the Joe Rogan episodes with Alex Jones, keep an open mind and you might see what I'm talking about. I have no problem with the Onion, I get the humor, but the crowds of people horse-laughing and slapping each other on the back because they get the joke so they must be "a club", them I have no affinity for, just like the pearl clutchers who think the Onion is a crime. There is no other implication.
I think I understand what you're trying to say, in that Infowars can be seen as a form of performance art or meta-humor. There might be some small number of people that enjoy the content as such, but the overwhelming majority of viewers do not and take Jones' words at face value regardless of whether there was humorous intent behind them. You can see this in the sales for his dubious-at-best supplements as these weren't bought as a gag, they were bought by people believing they would heal their ails.
This makes Jones' form of comedy (making the rather friendly assumption it was meant as such) irresponsible at best as it causes real-world harm and I doubt you'd disagree with me that comedy that negatively impacts people that did not make the decision to participate in it is not very good comedy at all.
