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Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard (Making Fun of Obama is Racist, Impossible)
Time ^ | Richard Zoglin

Posted on 09/02/2009 11:06:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
"N-Word Please!


21 posted on 09/02/2009 11:33:51 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: HerrBlucher

The Charlton Heston as Moses with the rising oceans ads during the elections were good, especially the one showing the lame bodysurfing attempt.


22 posted on 09/02/2009 11:34:24 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: nickcarraway

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.


23 posted on 09/02/2009 11:36:38 AM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: nickcarraway

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.


24 posted on 09/02/2009 11:37:27 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: nickcarraway
Making jokes about Barack Obama is the big test for political comedians these days

Rush Limbaugh makes jokes about Obama day in, day out for three hours at a time. But I guess only liberal comedians count.

25 posted on 09/02/2009 11:40:05 AM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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"How can you f*** up your only job?"

Sorry - I thought that was the Obama joke...

26 posted on 09/02/2009 11:40:47 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook (John Adams: Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate)
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To: Artemis Webb


27 posted on 09/02/2009 11:50:29 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Shop at Whole Foods and buy-cott the boycotters!!!)
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28 posted on 09/02/2009 11:52:22 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Shop at Whole Foods and buy-cott the boycotters!!!)
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How many comedians living in venezuela make fun of hugo chaves or in cuba fidel castro?

Exactly. And for the same reason...


29 posted on 09/02/2009 11:57:43 AM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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30 posted on 09/02/2009 12:05:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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But Obama, with his obvious smarts, low-key style and (most important) ability to catch the prevailing tone of irony and laugh at himself, has left the comics with little to hang their punch lines on.

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.

31 posted on 09/02/2009 12:06:20 PM PDT by giotto
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To: nickcarraway

“A POTUS is having an afternoon rendezvous with a married woman, when her husband unexpectedly pulls up in the driveway...”


32 posted on 09/02/2009 12:13:15 PM PDT by twister881
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To: ari-freedom

It’s Obama in Mom Jeans!


33 posted on 09/02/2009 12:14:31 PM PDT by twister881
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To: counterpunch
You couldn’t get away with jokes about Hitler in Germany, either.

"Haffen zee herd Hitler grosse hund poop essen? HAHAHA"

[dragged off stage.....BLAM]
34 posted on 09/02/2009 12:27:11 PM PDT by Moltke
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To: lovesdogs

Now that’s funny :)


35 posted on 09/02/2009 12:27:59 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: B-Chan

Screw 'im

36 posted on 09/02/2009 12:58:35 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
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To: kevao

.....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”


37 posted on 09/02/2009 1:02:58 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khital)
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To: bert

Ohhh! I thought the punchline was “because Clinton liked women!”


38 posted on 09/02/2009 1:34:41 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: nickcarraway

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.


39 posted on 09/02/2009 2:34:40 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: nickcarraway

No joke!!!


40 posted on 09/02/2009 2:35:14 PM PDT by Neets (Go Yankees!!!)
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