Tomorrow’s Inauguration and Comedians
by Rodney Lee ConoverTalk show writers and hosts, including “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” have been lamenting how they would love to bust President-elect Barack Obama’s chops more, but he just doesn’t do anything to make fun of. No matter what he says at the coronation tomorrow, there’s no material here… move along.
Let’s be honest.
#1: They love Barack Obama.
#2: He’s African-American.
That’s the bottom line and everybody knows it. The facts are, Barack Obama is a gaffe machine and has done more flip-flopping in the last two months than Jimmy Buffet in Grand Cayman. But do you think for a minute David Letterman would do a “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches,” with Obama saying; “I’ve already visited 57 states”…?
Not on your life. Why? Refer to #1 and #2 above.
Sorry to pick on one of my heroes, David Letterman, but it’s just the easiest example. However, I myself will not be doing any Obama Administration humor for an entirely different reason. Why? Because I feel sorry for him.
That’s right. I mean, he’s not even president yet and look at what’s already happened:
D.C. police have placed warning signs on the streets, declaring that during tomorrow’s inauguration, our capital will be a “Prostitution-Free Zone.” Great – so now Obama has to call his pal Blagojevich and tell him he can’t come. Awkward.
And poor Leon Panetta. People in his own party saying he has no experience in intelligence… What? As Clinton Chief of Staff for four years, how many chubby interns you suppose this guy snuck in and out of the Oval Office – and only got caught, what – once? I’d say he knows a thing or two about covert operations.
North Korea has made a request to send its chief nuclear envoy to attend the inauguration. Now what are you gonna do? If you say ‘no’, everybody thinks you’re rude. If you say ‘yes’ and the Communist guy gets close enough to Obama to whisper the code words, then we’re all in trouble.
Then we find out Carol M. Browner, Obama’s first pick as global warming czar, has said that to address climate change, rich countries must shrink their economies. Then she suggested adding Flomax to the water. Then it got weird.
C’mon – how can you make fun of this guy?
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I feel sorry for us. The Americans who are flipping the bill for one of the most costliest religious like ordinations ever. A costly dog and pony show at a time when Obama is preaching “everyone must sacrifice for the greater good”. I assume he means everyone except himself.
He could have kept his inauguration simple but what should we expect from a guy who doesn’t blink twice at spending 850 billion and running up a 2 trillion deficit.
The media adores him. Comedians will give him a wide berth and rock stars will write songs about him. Excuse me now while I vomit.
I think it’ll have to be a black comic to get things started. As STUPID as it is, if a white or asian comedian started taking the first big swipes at Obama it’d a firestorm!
“Then it got weird”… lol, that cracked me up!
Is it wrong for me to think, if someone like J.C. Watts or another black conservative were elected instead of Obama, would there be this much media attention?
True.
Let’s face it, BO is our first Affirmative Action President. Given his resume, that is really the only rational explanation.
And, no, if JC Watts had been elected, the entire day on media orgasms would NOT be happening.
The only problem with any of this…David Letterman is your hero. *shudders*
Pres – Elect B. O. has compassion for the Comedy Industry as he does for everyone single American who made contributions to his campaign. Why else do you think he would have picked Biden for V.P.?
Rodney and a few other guys on BIG HOLLYWOOD are as funny as Mark Styne. Keep it up.
OK, he’s not really an “African American”, in that he’s not descended from slaves. If a descendant of slaves had been elected I could at least celebrate that. That would really be something to celebrate. That would be a , wow look how far we’ve come, moment.
This ? This is a sham of the highest order.
This whole thing is so surreal I feel that the world has gone plumb loco.
Sadly, no matter how incompetent the brakabama proves to be, he will be considered a fabulous success by the morons fawning over his Hafrican ass because no matter what he does, he’ll still be brown looking.
“57 states.”
Is that all ya got?
Do you really believe Barack Obama doesn’t know how many states we have? Or are you just being disingenuous and actually understand that he misspoke, which happens when you are in the middle of an 18-month campaign?
“57 states.”
Is that all ya got?
BTW: Who the hell is Rodney Lee Conover, anyway?
I am a real fan of Jay Leno, but I get really, really tired of his running “Bush is Dumb” jokes.
Where is the creativity in that?
Furthermore, it plays on a completely false stereotype, since Bush is far from dumb.
It reminds me of the “Ford is Clumsy” jokes which became a general narrative – when Ford had been a serious athlete, and only appeared clumsy because he was left handed.
Jay Leno writers… I DARE you to run a daily series of Obama is Dumb jokes.
You don’t have the stones!
Yes, Ed, he misspoke.
But Palin’s an idiot.
Got it.
Keep bringin’ the hammer buddy.
Seriously, do you even know what the hell you’re saying?
No hammer, Gary. Just making a cogent point.
You’re right about Palin, though. But then, she’s so 2008…
Big media newspapers, magazines and TV networks have lost viewership to the Internet over the past decade because it’s “narrowcasting” abilities allow people to get what they want without the gatekeepers who want to spin the information in a certain direction.
Comedians will find the same thing will happen if Obama is doing things that are ripe for ridicule — and that the public knows are ripe for ridicule — but see no signs of any jokes on TV or in any publications because “there’s nothing to parody about Obama” (i.e. — we’re crapping in our pants out of fear of being branded racists and having our careers ruined if we do any sort of hard-hitting Obama joke).
If half a year from now people can’t get any other political humor from the usual outlets other than stale Sarah Palin quips or lame Joe Biden-is-lonely gags, you’ll start seeing stuff turn up on the Internet and you’ll see traffic increase if the barbs are both funny and accurate.
Believe me. Good comedians and good comedy writers will have plenty of ammunition. Nobody comedian cares that he’s black; they’ve been hammering Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc., for years.
Once Bush is back in Texas and out of view, and Obama is The Man, the humor will come.
It’s what a comedian does, it’s what we need, and it will be immediate.
let’s face it it will not take much to look like a great president after the sheety 8 year opening act we’ve had to sit through.
is this the other side of bds? or a new ods?
battered wives syndrom?
you’re going to need professional help to regain your senses.
perhaps we can have an government program?
You might hear some Barry O jokes in the comedy clubs , open mic nights or small cable shows, but not on Leno, Letterman, or Stewart. They won’t make jokes about Barry O, not because he’s black but because his supporters will call them out and boycott them.
REVHATCHELL just made my point. Hey Rev, you’ve been beaten by Bush for the past 8 years, you’re the one who needs help. Just in luck, Barry O is your savior.
Normally I’d point out that calling a black person “African-American” only helps the left, but in this case the description is actually accurate. His dad was from Africa. To the degree to which the origin of one’s parents matter, Obama really is African-American.
By that token I’m an Alabaman-Marylander-American.
Liberals are surprisingly incurious about money. They don’t know where much of the $600 million Obama received for campaigning came from (hint: overseas) and they don’t care where much of the bailout money goes. As long as there’s enough money floating around that they can reach out and grab some, hey, it’s like snow. It comes from the sky, it melts into the ground, whatever.
Today is the Day the Libtards heads explode with orgasmic self flagellation.
On the bright side, we’ll hear a lot less liberal whining in the future. If Obama keeps troops in Iraq after all, it’ll be okay, because it’s Obama! If he invades Pakistan (which he has already stated he’d be willing to do) it’s okay, because it’s Obama! If it turns out there’s nowhere to put the Gitmo detainees and they might have to stay there after all, it’ll be okay, because it’s Obama!
Maybe if they make fun of his white side it’ll be okay. Can he dance? There’s a target if he can’t.
Funny, funny stuff Rodney. But i know, right? When are our beloved comedians going to remove their lips from the man’s butt long enough to actually look at him objectively? Answer: Not Gaah happen.
Wow… this is like the weakest attempt at humor I've ever seen. Where were these lame perceptions when George was breaking all the toys in the white house… sad dude… very sad…
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