Update: Still No Late Night Obama Humor
by Tim SlagleIn the short span between my last review and today, we’ve seen the President sign a stimulus package so full of pork that Obama’s father would have been forbidden to touch it, along with a bump on the head, a scripted and sputtering press conference, and a contradiction from someone who actually understands how business works. Obama also appeared onstage in the theatre where Lincoln was shot, alongside a Lincoln impersonator (ouch).
Certainly there’s some topics ripe for ridicule. So what are the Late Nights talking about? I thought it was time for another review, so I fired up the DVR Tuesday night and watched David Letterman, Jay Leno, Craig Ferguson, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel. (Jon Stewart, and Stephen Cobert both have the week off.)
Alex Rodriguez (Letterman, Leno, Kimmel), the recession (Letterman, Leno, Ferguson) and the octuplets (Letterman, Leno, Kimmel) are the most popular topics right now. Meanwhile, the shows still struggle to find a handle from which to grab the new administration.
Leno hit one fairly squarely: He said that Congress commemorated George Washington throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac by tossing $700 billion down a rat hole. Conan and Kimmel only told one political joke. Granted Conan is closing down “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” (his last show is this Friday), and much of the show was devoted to running old clips, tearing up the set, and saying goodbye to the masturbating bear. Jimmy Kimmel said that Obama thanked Republicans for their support on the stimulus package by sending a jar of peanuts to each of them — and this is how many of the Late Nights seem to be approaching the administration right now, by making jokes about Republicans trying to ruin it all.
Jon Stewart did a piece last week which blamed Republicans for destroying “The Hope.” By now we’ve all seen the Dan Akroyd ”Saturday Night Live” clip (so devoid of laughter you wonder whether it was taped in front of an audience), where Republicans are mocked for not recognizing the intellect and eloquence of the new President. (I was reminded of an old Dan Akroyd bit where the “comedy” arises from Jimmy Carter being so brilliant, and an expert on absolutely everything.) Leno also told a “joke” about how well the President speaks. (He uses descriptions like: from the windy plains of the Dakotas, to the sunny skies of Arizona; rather than: from the sleazeball criminals of Wall Street to the broke-ass beaches of California.)
Craig Ferguson also blamed Republicans and said they were certain the stimulus would lead to failure. He then asked the director to put up a picture of failure, and predictably showed a photograph of President Bush. In Craig’s defense, he did do a really funny piece up front about how Los Angeles regulations made it illegal for him to light sparklers without completing a training course. He also questioned the sanity of giving stimulus to the same taxpayers who would eventually pay for it.
There was a two-fer on Ferguson’s show as Bill Maher was a guest. The conversation actually turned to the administration: “How’s it going to be with the Obama Presidency for you?” Craig asked him, “Because you were sticking it to President Bush pretty tough.”
Bill stammered: “I think you’re skirting around the question. Everyone asks ‘how can you make jokes?’ Bush was so easy… are you going to make jokes about Obama, [Craig]?”
“I do fart jokes, Bill.”
Letterman also hasn’t found a way around it either, but for the first time, since I started doing these reviews he didn’t do a single Bush joke. Instead, he unloaded on Bill Clinton: (While Hillary spent the day in Tokyo, negotiating with Japanese leaders and working on a peace treaty with North Korea to come to an agreement on nuclear weapons – Bill ate 50 hot wings at Hooters, and gave his number to a waitress named Mindy.) And Dave admitted (for the second time since I started reviews): “Because the Clintons have been good to us, and we’re having trouble coming up with stuff on the new guy.” He also did a Top Ten List of Things Hillary Wants to Accomplish on Her Trip Oversees, one of which was picking up a carton of duty-free smokes for Obama.
And that dear readers, could be the very first sighting of an actual Obama joke on Late Night TV.
(Check out TimSlagle.com for real Obama jokes)
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There are no jokes because we made such a bad mistake electing this empty suit that it is scary.
He is going to make Carter look good.
Tim Slagle – whoever you are…the joke is on YOU.
The US and the rest of the world respect and honor Obama; y'know…he's the President who started working BEFORE he got into office.
It will take Obama's new America YEARS to undo what Boy George Bush did to kill accountability in banking….and it will take decades to stop the ridiculous globalization concept that your insipid Ronnie Raygun and Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher dreamed up.
Obama has not even been in office for ONE month…and hacks like you have to tear him down – funny how no one else in the mainstream TV (un) funny business seems there is a joke here.
The big joke is pundits like you — you are NOT funny — but the idiots at Breitfart paid you!
Now that's HILARIOUS!
I'm not sure whether or not I'm supposed to laugh or cry, so I'll do both.
Sometimes satire is so true. The future of our country folks: idiots with internet access.
The joke is that this buffoon is 'actually' in the White House! The joke is that Liberals have been screwed – the joke is that Obama is in the process of taking down the USA – the joke is that people like you are 'still' to stupid to recognize what is going on in America, right now! There are plenty of jokes about this ineligible 'joke' of a president – but funny, it's NOT!
I said after the elections — say good-bye to late night TV as you know it.
There are no jokes because:
1. Media is still in the Obamabot mode and God forbid we touch His Excellency. Get used to it as there's 4 long years for it to go on. Unless something real drastic happens.
2. The dude is half black. Can't make jokes about him cuz you'll be labeled racist. I mean, that's the same media that invented PC BS to begin with. So now they're stuck in the hole they dug up for themselves. NY Post cartoon yesterday anyone? Say something and you'll have Sharpton picketting in front of your offices…
I love the First Amendment and I remember it fondly…
The reason is because he is a black liberal dem and Jesse Jackson al sharpton boycotts are embbarrassing and expensive. Worse yet nobody wants to look unenlightened…
gufaw – that's right! you tell 'em! HOW DARE ANYONE CRITICIZE OUR DEAR LEADER! Why we should just declare him dictator for life of the US so he can solve all our problems. Seriously – it's people like you who are turning us into a socialist/fascist state. Please move to Europe or better yet Venezuela.
–(I was reminded of an old Dan Akroyd bit where the “comedy” arises from Jimmy Carter being so brilliant, and an expert on absolutely everything.) —
I actually like this sketch a lot. It's just completely ridiculous. (I was born several years after it originally aired but I saw it on DVD.) And who knew Bill Murray could do a decent Walter Cronkite?
MOST…
PATHETIC…
MEME…
EVER…
gufflawed said:
"The US and the rest of the world respect and honor Obama; y'know…he's the President who started working BEFORE he got into office."
That's true- figuring out which tax dodgers to appoint to cabinet positions, trying to figure out how to get some of blago's payoff for his senate seat, determining which lobbyists to appoint to his non-lobbyist administration, when to sign executive orders for continuing renditions, that sort of thing.
And of course, no other presidents EVER had a plan before hitting the white house…none of them. Gads, you're an empty headed msm parrot, gufflawed.
"Obama has not even been in office for ONE month…and hacks like you have to tear him down – funny how no one else in the mainstream TV (un) funny business seems there is a joke here."
I see, as opposed to useful idiots like you trying to tear down Bush during his first inauguration. No double standard there, eh you moronic hypocrite? And it is not funny how noone in mainstream TV can find anything to make fun of jugears about- his entire reign so far has been a colossal pratfall- much like the 4th grade level screed you just hurled up.
Time for you to go eat your froot loops out of your obie commemorative bowl, then go play with your obie action figures down in mommy's basement.
Leave the writing and thinking to people who can handle it, lil' feller.
And this is a shock?
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
The thing to remember is there is always a storyline, and that jokes are built around the storyline. For Clinton, it was that he liked fast food and the sex stuff–see the referenced Letterman joke, which continues using the accepted framework. For Republicans…Reagan, Quail, Bush, Palin, etc…the storyline is nearly always that they are stupid. (Conversely, every Democrat is not just smart, but a veritable genius–Clinton, Hillary, Gore, Obama, etc.)
This means that every trip of the tongue one of these Republicans makes inevitably gets noted because it fits and reinforces the storyline. The storyline gets so accepted that you have people refusing to believe Bush reads books, which is objectively just stupid. However, they can't wrap their head around the idea because again, it doesn't fit the storyline.
Obama can stutter and say stupid things too–who wouldn't, given the sort of circumstances he finds himself in–but there's no *storyline* that he's stupid, so you're not going to see jokes about that stuff. Comics do not think outside the box, because the box is their friend and keeps them safe and warm. Until they can find a fairly small peccadillo to josh Obama around (his smoking seems the favorite so far) that doesn't contradict his main storyline of being incredibly intelligent and thoughtful, you're just not going to see many jokes about him.
You make the first joke.
No, you first.
Please I insist, you first.
After you…
Chickens.
Tim, you're a Godsend. We used to DVR Craig Ferguson and occasionally watch Leno, but have abandoned all of them because we got tired of the unfunny, relentless bashing of conservative values. Craig Ferguson could be a star if he fired his scriptwriters and hired Drew Carey and his friends. Instead, he's unwatchable.
I'll keep reading your takes on late night tv. Once they start actually being funny again, I'll start watching again.
Lets start with his ears? Then, how about his ability to select friends and employees. Then about his ciminal family (aunt and half-brother).
Oh, and hypocrisy is supposed to be something to lampoon. Gee, seems like plenty of material in just a month's time.
Let's see… Letterman can't toss any more watermelons on 53rd St, Leno can't have any more monkeys as guests and none of them shouldn't really have any fabric containing even trace amounts of cotton on set…
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Thanks for watching these so we don't have to … and good work in toto. Let's see how long they can keep this act up. At this point, if Obama came to the podium, slipped on a banana peel and landed face first in a lemon meringue pie they'd find a way not to mention it.
Jon Stewart poked a little fun at him after his press conference earlier this week… gotta give him props for having the nerve to do it. He should probably get a remote car starter…
http://msunderestimated.com/2009/02/12/jon-stewar...
There will be no Obama humor. Aside from the racial blackmail angle, the level of personal commitment they have in Obama is just to big. Having taken the position that he is The Savior they will NEVER be able to backtrack. We'll still be seeing Bush jokes in a 2-1 ratio at the end of the 2 terms the media intends to provide for Obama. His actual performance makes no difference. His performance will always be SUPERB, if we don't see it that way the jokes will be written that we are just to stupid to realize how SUPERB he is.
But Pelosi? This woman is demonstrably stupid and visibly nuts. How can there not be a tsunami of Pelosi jokes? The only possible explanation is that she dwells in the great Democrat invulnerability dome. Like "Dome Springfield" in the Simpsons movie, this is an invisible wall that keeps criticism away. Inside the dome Democrats live critic free lives, mixing each other new and ever stronger batches of Kool Aid, while watching the latest epics from Hollywood that tell them what brilliant heroes they are – and what bumpkins we are.
Nice work if you can get it.
I thought we were allowed to talk about race now. We wouldn't want to be cowards anymore. What a great opportunity for our comedians. They can lead the charge & open up the lines of racial communication.
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JUst remember, Obama is half white. So when they call you a racist. Say your picking on the white half.
==The US and the rest of the world respect and honor Obama…==
WHO in the US? 51 — 52%?
I don't care about the rest of the world that can't get along without us. The rest of the world that we have fed.
== It will take Obama's new America YEARS to undo what Boy George Bush did to kill accountability in banking….==
The Republicans didn't create the mess we're in now.
If you remember, in the mid-90s, and again in 2003, Democrats Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd rejected regulation of the mortgage lending industry. Frank said that the mortgage lending industry is in good shape and doesn't need regulation. In 2003-2004, George Bush warned of the then-coming financial breakdown. The Democrats still won't accept responsibility for their rejecting regulation of the mortgage lending industry, and it is that rejection that allowed the lenders to goal hog-wild,, offering ill-qualified borrowers deals that were too good to pass up.
==… – funny how no one else in the mainstream TV (un) funny business seems there is a joke here. ==
That's because they are in the tank with him.
Nice article Tim. I don't think they're ever going to do anything unless he totally fails (like Carter) or utterly disgraces himself (like Clinton) and even then it will all be soft touch. They worship this guy like he's their god or that most-cherished grandfather. Their first instincts will never be to laugh at his mistakes.
By the way, Tim, I think the comments about not being able to find anything funny tells us all something about the writers they've gathered — total groupthink.
Also, keep in mind, they have more targets that just Obama himself. They could go after Daschle (tax), Geitner (taxes, plan with no details), Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Rangle (taxes, draft), the massive littering (130 tons) at the innauguration, the media people jumping ship for the administration, the passive questioning by the media. Instead they aim at the Republicans who can't stop anything. Not very brave or creative.
skating – that is one of the best retorts that I have ever seen.
The only one listed in this article that is remotely balanced in taking shots at politicians is Leno. If things in this country go down the toilet as I expect, I can't wait to see Jon Stewart scraping the barrel to find things to joke about that don't slam the Dems and Obama.
Vic
Maybe there IS still hope after all. Howzabout Michelle? Seems that they still keep her pretty much locked up while she's presumably being coached in manners, ettiquette, style and making her look more like a woman and less like a frantic racist she-male. I doubt that years of ghetto can be undone in a few short months, though…
Just wait until the First Ho goes to visit the Queen of England. Yay tabloids. We're gonna have a field day reading the British press. (that is cuz there won't be any mention of her antics in ours)
Still a double jeopardy for late night. Black AND a woman? No-no.
How about instead of complaining about the lack of Obama jokes, we just start making our own?
Why does Barack Obama want change?
Because Pelosi already called dibs on your dollars.
Obama signed a tax increase on tobacco in order to fund the S-CHIP health care program for poor youth. Why was Obama's first tax increase on cigarettes?
So his breath could cure sick children.
Why won't Barack Obama tell Obama jokes?
Because that would be racist.
Why doesn't Barack Obama have an original birth certificate?
They didn't have a form to indicate virgin birth.
How does Obama handle the press so well?
He promised his kids a lap dog if he won the election.
OK, let's get started. I walked into a bar. There was a Rabbi, a Priest, and Rev. Wright (Sharpton or Jackson would be OK here)
Here you have a political cartoonist draw a crazed monkey and equate it to the porkulus, and Al Sharpton just figured out how to pay his bills for the next six months. This is outrageous. Will late night touch it – I doubt it, because we have now entered the racists' zone. Same thing with BO. For the first time, you can't even jest about any asinine policy without incurring the wrath of racial criticisms. And here lies the danger – the sea change of the entire fabric of our system. The thought police may be coming soon to a hamlet near you.
The only good thing about mass audiences, is that they usually have the attention span of a tsetse fly. George Bush is old news, and as the ineptitude cresendoes, and the audience tires of the media fondling, and the ratings drop, while the advertisers flee, maybe one of them will grow a pair and say what needs to be said.
While you wait for "teh funny" to be pointed at Obama, stop to consider that most of these late night people aren't that funny to begin with. Blood from a stone, I tell ya.
Maybe we need to be 'Zo on this one…
Do you get cookies with that Kool-Aid? He nominated 3 tax cheats and 2 pay for players. He mortgaged your children's(God help us if you have any) future for something he doesn'tknow will work. He's broken almost every promise he made.
While you wait for "teh funny" to be pointed at Obama, stop to consider that most of these late night people aren't that funny to begin with. Blood from a stone, I tell ya.
Maybe we need to get 'Zo on this one…
And these people are worried about the 5-percent of the population that listens to talk radio.
If and when a new fairness doctrine passes, I think it's up to citizens to sue every entertainment and media entity that continues to show off liberal bias or even criticism of conservatives. If they want government mandated speech, make them pay from their end.
Quit talking common sense, you'll probably just give them a headache. There's people out there that think all those billions went to the "CEOs who stole it all!"
Why did the late-night comedian cross the road?
He didn't. He has to stay left of center.
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Wait … which one was the Lincoln impersonator?
Great idea, Dan! Thanks to you and Mr. Slagle for prying open that lock on these forbidden joke topics.
I'd been starting to miss America.
Well put Jack – they are simply scared or blind of the facts surrounding The Messiah's decisions and team.
Did you know Obama was going to appoint Billy Graham to a cabinet position?
Then he learned that Churches don't HAVE to pay taxes!
Jokes about Obama are blasphemy.
==If and when a new fairness doctrine passes…==
It wouldn't get past SCOTUS which would say that the First Amendment protects political speech and that Lib intrusion into Conservative speech would infringe on the conservative's speech.
Anyway, The White House says that Dear Leader Obammy is against the Fairless Doctrine. No idea whether he would support the same thing without the label, though. I think he could be persuaded cuz, after all, it's the Socialist thing t'do.
Further, Nova M, the Lib network, is quitting. Free market ran'em outta bidness, and Randi Rhodes, that foulmouth, is MIA and lookin' for another outlet. She just doesn't get it, that people don't want her brand.
==Jokes about Obama are blasphemy. ==
Call a cop.
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Hey Dan, good idea. Here's one (not as funny as your virgin birth certificate though)…
Obama recently approved 17000 more troops for Afghanistan. Among those soldiers leaving for this dangerous wartime duty were Sgt. Ted Daschle, Cpl. Bill Richardson, and Pvt. Nancy Killefer.
Anybody! Help with this one…
Obama went to Canada today. At a press conference in Montreal somebody threw a _____at him.
For years there have been legal bills from blacks asking for reparations for past slavery of blacks in the USA. All their legal bills have failed. Now Obama's hidden agenda has finally come to the fore. He is using tax payer money – reparations from whites- to pay mortgages for blacks – thus satisfying the criminal extortionists like J Jackson and his gang of cronies – and Bill Ayers and his gang of cronies. No Americans are not cowards, Eric, they have tender consciences – easily pricked by the second commandment – love your neighbor as yourself –even if he is black.
Obama is riding the pricked consciences of Americans to victory for himself and financial ruin for America.
To bankrupt America is the least of Obama's considerations. He is a black and has divided this nation more than the Civil War did – and brouight tensions about racism never before seen in our generation. HE has brought fear of and even hatred for blacks that never existed before, for blacks are completely silent about Obama's crimes and duplicity and dangerous legislation and the paying of their mortgages as slavery reparations.
Obama has ruined America. This country cannot deal with white-black problems ever again on a rational platform of law – but only with an artifucial skewed detour from the reality of the black-white problem.
KNOW why the kings of comedy haven't poked humor at Obama… Just look what they said about the cops shooting the ape. The blacks are ready to pounce on the least reference that is negative in any way toward blacks. All blacks now feel they are free – Obama has used the oldest witchcraft trick – branding -name dropping.. of Lincoln. Obama is telling the world that he is finishing the work Lincoln began. He tried to brand himself as John F. Kennedy's successor by name dropping.
Also, the media, which is the blood relative of the kings of comedy passed Obama off as Messiah, God, the perfect person and leader. Humor breaks the public image of the leader and says, our leaders are not dictators and not perfect and are subject to the common man – so the kings of comedy are estopped from now attacking the image of god they painted. They tied their own hands. Obama – we will be looking back at Obama before long.
pork sandwich?
Two months ago, most of you called this kind of obsessive "WHEREZ TEH OUTRAGE!!!???" blather "Bush Derrangement Syndrome." Not that the turnaround is a surprise or anything, just enjoy pointing it out.
Sandal
Of either the Biblical or Birkenstock variety. You can make a joke around it either way.
Well, for all of the people that speak in favor of the (un)Fairness Doctrine, they seem to be having a problem getting a politician to actually sponsor it. We can only hope that it stays that way.
Suzie, I like that. Thanks.
Obama went to Canada today. At a press conference in Montreal somebody threw a pork sandwich at him.
Since the Civil War, blacks have tried to 'fade' or 'pass' into the white race. The blacks have immitated whites in every catagory of behavior. But now Obama has make the blacks reverse their surge into whiteism and caused blacks to stand out as blacks. Obama has now reversed the blacks image of honor and success, i.e. white immitation, and caused blacks to stand out as blacks thus confusing both whites and blacks and causing separation and suspecion between the races similar to the days following the Civil War. Except now, blacks feel empowered to do anything they want to do. They will no longer seek to blend into the white world, they will follow Obama's agenda and RE-CREATE America in the image of Islam and the black world.
Obama was forced to 'go black' after his affair with a whie woman he lived with. When he could not marry into that white world – he went to Kenya to nuirse his hurt and rejection as a black and to make peace with his black sense of self.
He made a vow at his father's and grand father's graves to go black and be proud of it and continue their fight for equality. Obama is surreptiously calling for black oppositdion to anything white and is inspiring a reversasl of the white-black solutions of the past 150 years. Obama is taking out his hurt on American whites. He thinks in two worlds, white/black, but with skill had hidden his true values and goals until now. When he got the money in his hands, he began to reveal his true hidden agenda-to pay millions to blacks and make whitey bleed.
He is feigning Christianity long enough to strike the Judas blow against the white man's religion. He seeks to enthrone the Islam in America.
Swing and a miss Bob. In the earlier case BDS was demonstrated when someone called for STILL MORE Bush Bashing/outrage when there was already so much of it.
In this case there is NO criticism of Obama being voiced, and that is just plain weird. The media finds plenty of ways to toss scorn at churches people believe in… but not one bad word or even joke about Barack?
This is the new syndrome: BES – Barack Enraptured Syndrome.
i don't have much of a life, but i always find something better to do than watch the latenight interview shows. drinking alone in my garage is a more productive use of time.
the media is changing, just as newspapers are dying at least partly because of they're biased and out of touch with readers, conventional entertainment media is at the start of a long slide down hill.
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Bob, the difference is the "BDS" you're referring to are the calls for the death of President Bush or the personal attacks, not the jokes from the usual comedic outlets.
We conservatives have no problems when jokes are made at the expense of the people who are supposed to be the standard-bearers.
I think what THESTUPID meant to say was:
MOST…
PATHETIC…?
ME, ME
FOREVER…
i don't have much of a life, but i always find something better to do than watch the latenight interview shows. drinking alone in my garage is a more productive use of time.
the media is changing, just as newspapers are dying at least partly because of the way they're biased and out of touch with readers, conventional entertainment media is at the start of a long slide down hill.
crash/attackcartoons
Nice sock puppetry, rev.
It wouldn't get past SCOTUS which would say that the First Amendment protects political speech and that Lib intrusion into Conservative speech would infringe on the conservative's speech.
At least it wouldn't get past SCOTUS until after the President's first pick for Justice gets on board.
Anyway, The White House says that Dear Leader Obammy is against the Fairless Doctrine. No idea whether he would support the same thing without the label, though. I think he could be persuaded cuz, after all, it's the Socialist thing t'do.
Haven't we figured this out by now? Every promise or statement this administration makes has an expiration date.
Via Gateway Pundit remeber, its abosolutely, completely, totally impossible to find any speck of comedy for the late night shows tonight from this:
Yep. You could put the greatest comedy writers in the history of Hollywood on that one, and they couldn't find a shred of humor there. Nope, none whatsoever…
It was all the corn-stalks in downtown Ottawa that confused him, Dust
BO's progress report He's nominated 3 tax cheats, ALL DEMOCRATS and 2 pay for players BOTH DEMOCRATS. He's broken almost every promise he made. His good friend DEMOCRAT Roland Burris lied to gain his senate seat. The DEMOCRAT gov who appointed him has been impeached His chief of staff yet ANOTHER TAX CHEAT who served on the Fannie Mae board and made a cool 1/4 million for the "work"
YOU CAN NOT MAKE FUN OF THE BLACK GUY IN THE PRESIDENTS SUIT otherwise you're a 1) bigot 2) racist 3) coward 4) all of the above
They started picking on Bill Clinton again. It's scary. It's not only the press but now comics! God help us!
Jokes are tough to come up with when you're beating your foolish head against the wall…
"a stimulus package so full of pork that Obama’s father would have been forbidden to touch it," BRAVO!
Even the reruns of The Daily Show and The Cobert Report would have been enough to invalidate your premise.
Oh, sorry, forgot I'd entered the no-facts zone.
The thugocrats put the word out to the networks. No jokes about Obama. They even could't comment on his signing the stimulus bill. He chastises the big 3 CEOS for flying to washinton in corporate jets while he takes his 747 and all the support that goes with it to AZ. Not to mention the the VP also flew on AF 2 to AZ to be at his side. At least the CEOs didn't do it with the publics money. HIPOCRITES!
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Why can't everybody be conservative? Then there would be no need for jokes. We would all be alike. Everybody just like everybody else. Then Letterman could praise Obama and everyone would be happy. We could even abolish the first amendment. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press wouldn't be necessary. There would be no one to complain. If Letterman said that Obama bought a ranch in Crawford Texas because he wanted to raise ranch dressing, we could all smile and be happy because we are all the same. We wouldn't feel uncomfortable about Sarah Palin not paying taxes on her per diem, or that she would be in prison if she lived in Illinois. It wouldn't matter. Oh, please God. Please! Please make all of us conservative.
Last summer, Jon Stewart had a couple of really funny segments that poked a fun at Obama. Nothing too mean spirited, but it made fun of him on some legitimate issues. Needlessly to say, the audience didn't respond well. At the end of one bit, he actually had to tell the audience it was okay to laugh at Obama.
Here's links to two of them:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vid...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vid...
I remember at the time thinking that Stewart had to be secretly pulling for McCain just to save his show.
I will give Stewart credit. He seemed to be holding Obama to the same standards as the other candidates. But, in the end, his job is to make his audience laugh and they didn't respond.
Was I the only one who thought it was sad that SNL had Akroyd, one of the funniest of the SNL players ever, on in a skit that stunk like branch water? I was more than ready to laugh a little at the Republicans, hoping the skit would be about their resoluteness, and their traitorous members break from them. Instead it was a discussion on who do you think is smarter, Rush or Sean? Really, SNL? This is the best you could comeup with? Somebody please pull the plug on this show. Even the skit with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi was a stinker.
I happily stopped watching any late night network chat show programming months ago. In fact I don't watch any network programing at all. I thank God every night for U-Verse!!! Jimmy who?
The overpaid late night entainers are obviously huge cowards….the joke is on them, may they die the slow death of ratings decline. Personnally I never watch them, Late Night TV is just a wasteland of unfunny comedians, bad get rich quick schemes, and quack solutions to pain and loathing.
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==Late Night TV is just a wasteland of unfunny comedians…==
Letterman leads the pack of the increasingly unfunny. His act is getting real old.
Actually, Letterman was very funny last night. He had a running gag about A-Rod and his cousin. Then Letterman admits to taking performance enhancing drugs. He says he always has to call his doctor after four hours. It was a lot funnier the way he delivered it.
Fed up with Obama? Check out this funny "Nobama" song at: http://www.myspace.com/rogerweber
You'll feel better.
As a libertarian who laughs at many republican jokes, and has no problem finding the humor in either side, I've always been curious how Jon Stewart got his gig, going back to when I first heard he was taking over the show years ago. He was never funny and the last few years have only convinced me more of that. The guy simply has no talent for actual humor, and merely relies on the sheeple nature of his audience and the teleprompter to attempt to be funny. Cobert actually IS funny.
Marvin your not even a GOOD troll. Plus the legends you quote about Palin have all been debunked (in Newsweek no less!) so you better go make up some new ones. Try "I hear she's a satan worshipper" it's a big hit on HuffPo.
[...] Obama Humor Watch: Still Nothing February 20, 2009 Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized. Tags: Entertainment, News, Politics, TV trackback One whole month in office and still no late night Obama humor. [...]
I'm just not that much into that New York-style humor, I guess.
I DO believe, though, that Leno is funnier than O'Brien, and I'm sorry Leno is leaving and that O'Brien is taking over The Tonight Show. O'Brien is too juvenile for my taste.
OK, I just came up with an Obama joke…..The Obama's are no longer members of the Trinity United Church of Christ (or whatever it's called), but fortunately they found another church, The First American Church of Obama. Worship services are anywhere Obama is holding a press conference.
Headline. The sun came up this morning, NY Times attributes it to Obama's stimulus plan.
I'm a HUGE Dan Aykroyd fan. Ghostbusters and The Blues Brothers are two of my favorite films of all time. Unfortunately, I must agree – that sketch (and by extension, 90% of the show) wasn't very funny. I've been an SNL fan for years, having grown up during the Carvey/Myers/Hartman (RIP) years. I briefly studied improv in Orlando and I plan on pursuing it one day in LA and every time I see an unfunny SNL (too frequently), it just makes me want to succeed that much more.
P.S. Nice name, by the way.
I'm a HUGE Dan Aykroyd fan. Ghostbusters and The Blues Brothers are two of my favorite films of all time. Unfortunately, I must agree – that sketch (and by extension, 90% of the show) wasn't very funny. I've been an SNL fan for years, having grown up during the Carvey/Myers/Hartman (RIP) years. I briefly studied improv in Orlando and I plan on pursuing it one day in LA and every time I see an unfunny SNL (too frequently), it just makes me want to succeed that much more.
P.S. Nice name, by the way.
I'm a HUGE Dan Aykroyd fan. Ghostbusters and The Blues Brothers are two of my favorite films of all time. Unfortunately, I must agree – that sketch (and by extension, 90% of the show) wasn't very funny. I've been an SNL fan for years, having grown up during the Carvey/Myers/Hartman (RIP) years. I briefly studied improv in Orlando and I plan on pursuing it one day in LA and every time I see an unfunny SNL (too frequently), it just makes me want to succeed that much more.
P.S. Nice name, by the way.
FORGET IT!!! HE'S TO BIG TO FAIL!!! Oh! And how bad is it when a ??former?? communist(KGB) director(putin) warns the The Big "O"s administration to NOT..turn into a socialist government…. HAAAAAAAAA! how funny is that??
[...] lack of late night Obama humor certainly reflects the fear of violating political correctness more than political bias ( a charge [...]
[...] problem. Presidents are usually the source of most late night joke, but comedians are having a hard time finding any material to make jokes about President Obama. This isn
[...] problem. Presidents are usually the source of most late night joke, but comedians are having a hard time finding any material to make jokes about President Obama. This isn’t anything new, it was also true during the [...]
[...] and comedy, in a context of university speech codes censoring some voices and the reluctance of many comedians to find nothing funny about Pres. [...]
[...] and comedy, in a context of university speech codes censoring some voices and the reluctance of many comedians to find nothing funny about Pres. [...]
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