Posted on 09/02/2009 11:06:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The crowd sitting elbow to elbow in the basement performance space at New York City's Comedy Cellar on a recent Wednesday night had pretty much had its fill of sex jokes, gay jokes, rants about New York cabdrivers and time-filling banter with the couple in the front row who had just gotten married a week ago. Then, a few minutes after midnight, James Smith, a lanky Australian stand-up who has appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords, bounded onto the stage for a 15-minute set to do something a little different. He talked politics.
Some of his targets were old reliables like Bill Clinton, fresh from his diplomatic jaunt to North Korea. ("We need to bring two hot Asian chicks back from North Korea in a private jet," said Smith, imagining the genesis of Clinton's recent mission. "Who should we get?") He delved into the economic crisis, pinpointing the bitter irony of banks' having to declare bankruptcy ("How do you f___ up your only job?"). And he waded fearlessly into perhaps the most treacherous satiric waters of all: the new resident of the White House. (See TIME's history of stand-up comedy.)
Making jokes about Barack Obama is the big test for political comedians these days, and like many, Smith did it mostly by talking around him. Obama could never get away with the kind of sexual shenanigans that Clinton did, he mused, because Michelle wouldn't stand for it: "She would impeach him herself!" Obama's election victory was inevitable the minute Oprah Winfrey endorsed him: "There's nothing bigger than Oprah. Oprah can do anything. 'Betcha can't make a black man President.' 'Watch me!' " The joke isn't Obama himself; it's the cultural shift — and the country's reaction to it — that he represents.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The Charlton Heston as Moses with the rising oceans ads during the elections were good, especially the one showing the lame bodysurfing attempt.
Here is one they can use:
The post office came out with an obama stamp. People immediately started complaining that they did not stick to envelopes. So the PO commissioned a $2mill study only to find out that people were spitting on the wrong side.
It is amazing what cowards these entertainers are! So rigidly marching to the left’s narrow and concrete orders and staying within the fine line of what is allowable.
Tear down families, religion, the US but don’t make fun of blue-lipped president of the 57 States of this muslim nation.
Obama has bummbled more in the first 6 months than Bush.
Cowards supported by cowards.
Rush Limbaugh makes jokes about Obama day in, day out for three hours at a time. But I guess only liberal comedians count.
Sorry - I thought that was the Obama joke...
How many comedians living in venezuela make fun of hugo chaves or in cuba fidel castro?
Exactly. And for the same reason...
This seems to be the essence of the three page article: For the first time in history, there is a man about whom there is nothing to mock or make fun of. What a waste of time. That should be the new moniker for this useless rag: Waste of Time Magazine.
“A POTUS is having an afternoon rendezvous with a married woman, when her husband unexpectedly pulls up in the driveway...”
It’s Obama in Mom Jeans!
Now that’s funny :)
Screw 'im
.....Obama could never get away with the kind of sexual shenanigans that Clinton did, he mused, because Michelle wouldn’t stand for it: “She would impeach him herself!”.....
Better..... “Because she would beat his bony Beige ass”
Ohhh! I thought the punchline was “because Clinton liked women!”
Well the city folks might not have a problem joking about Obama but I can guarantee you us out here are having no problem with it! Just listening to what goes on in the grocery line should give comediens a clue of what the people think is funny.
No joke!!!
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