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How to make fun of Obama: Tips for those who find it too hard to joke about the Democratic candidate
LA Times ^ | July 18, 2008 | Joel Stein

Posted on 07/19/2008 7:11:19 AM PDT by hripka

I believe comedic change is possible. Since the New Yorker dropped a bum joke on its cover this week, comedians have appeared on every news outlet to whine about how hard it is to make fun of Barack Obama. Really? They have an arsenal of jokes to use against a 71-year-old ex-POW cancer survivor and Obama is too touchy a subject?

I'm here to help. I called some comedian friends to compile a guide to making fun of Obama. The consensus is there's not yet one standout attribute to pound away on (McCain is old! Clinton cheats on his wife! Bush is stupid! Al Gore is a robot! John Kerry makes me feel inexplicably sad inside!), but there are areas to explore. If we just work a little harder, and sacrifice a little bit, we can achieve greatness. We are the immature jerks we have been waiting for.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; comedy; election; obama; obamaisajoke
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1 posted on 07/19/2008 7:11:19 AM PDT by hripka
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To: hripka

I don’t make fun of Obama. I make fun of those who believe in him.


2 posted on 07/19/2008 7:13:05 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Tony's work will live on = it's up to us to see it through)
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To: hripka

His real name is Stanley Toot.


3 posted on 07/19/2008 7:13:25 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: hripka

Nuts.


4 posted on 07/19/2008 7:14:58 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: hripka

http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

http://www.obamaformessiah.com/

The Advertising Slogan Generator - Obama
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=obama


5 posted on 07/19/2008 7:17:29 AM PDT by hripka (There are a lot of smart people out there in FReeperLand)
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To: hripka; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ..
Re: He's effete. He's well-dressed. He eats arugula -- which he buys at Whole Foods. He mocks those who use guns. He is, as we mentioned, quite thin. He may only be half-black, but he's three-quarters gay.

Now that's... funny

And probably... so true!

6 posted on 07/19/2008 7:29:06 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: All

Ok...here’s one for you, stop me if you’ve heard it before:
“What’s the difference between Obama and a flaming piece of lying, America-hating dog $hit...Answer: Not one damn bit of difference....hahahahahahahah....get it? It’s funny cause it’s true....hahahahahahahahahahah


7 posted on 07/19/2008 7:30:43 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: usmcobra

Obama is concerned that only one American citizen in a TV commercial is flatulent in three languages... he thinks everyone should be.


8 posted on 07/19/2008 7:31:21 AM PDT by Lucky Dog
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To: hripka


9 posted on 07/19/2008 7:34:10 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: hripka
I don't find anything very funny about Obama. It's kind of like making jokes about Pol Pot.

I rather agree with this poster on the article:

I am a Latino Democrat who will vote for McCain, where Obama stands on immigration, national healthcare and the war, is not very funny.
Submitted by: ELA guy

10 posted on 07/19/2008 7:34:15 AM PDT by JimSEA (Kaffur and proud of it.)
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To: hripka


11 posted on 07/19/2008 7:34:31 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: hripka

The would-be comics are lying. Obama gives plenty of material for jokes but the jokesters aren’t stupid: they are worried their car might be keyed, their house might be firebombed or worse. Obama is a joke but he and Michelle can’t take it.


12 posted on 07/19/2008 7:35:36 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Conspiracy Guy


13 posted on 07/19/2008 7:37:15 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: hripka

How many Harvard graduates does it take to change a light bulb?

One. He grasps it tightly and the world revolves around him.


14 posted on 07/19/2008 7:37:33 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Lucky Dog

He’s Count Chocula in disguies.


15 posted on 07/19/2008 7:39:15 AM PDT by CyberSpartacus
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To: MeekOneGOP

The hips and thighs are too narrow to accurately portray Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton


16 posted on 07/19/2008 7:39:43 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: Bender2

He may only be half-black, but he's three-quarters gay.

But he looks so fabulous in a dress!

17 posted on 07/19/2008 7:40:07 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words". ~ St. Francis of Assisi)
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To: Lucky Dog

Will his helmet have ear holes??


18 posted on 07/19/2008 7:40:48 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: hripka

Screw the humorless, overly sensitive, unqualified, empty-suited leftist jerkwad and all his brain dead idiot followers!


19 posted on 07/19/2008 7:41:08 AM PDT by RedCobra (s)
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To: hripka

It’s not hard for them to make fun of Obumuh.

THEY ARE JUST COWARDS!

They built up their audiences with left-wing whack job college kids and 60s dinosaurs, lauding their bravery for “speaking truth to power” all along the way. Now these hacks cant afford to PO their “base”, because once their gone, because they dared to mock the most holy BHO, they are finished. No more glowing articles in the rags, no more awards, no more show.


20 posted on 07/19/2008 7:42:04 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (USA: Ticking off lesser nations since 1776. Now in our 232 year of business!)
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To: vietvet67

O.o I like that one. So many possibilities.


21 posted on 07/19/2008 7:42:16 AM PDT by TheZMan (Bitter backwoods east Texan Christian gun clinger with the AC at 72 degrees.)
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To: Maverick68

Obama walks into a bar. The bartender asks, what will it be? Obama says, let me think a minute and I’ll tell you. The bartender says, you’re all ears, I mean I’m all ears.


22 posted on 07/19/2008 7:44:43 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: VanDeKoik
THEY ARE JUST COWARDS!

Bingo! They only speak truth to power when there are no cosequences, when it doesn't take any courage at all and in fact when it actually promotes their career. What a bunch of turds. I wonder if Carson would have been afraid of bambi?

23 posted on 07/19/2008 7:47:24 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Barack's mesmerizing speeches are little more than oratory Three Card Monte)
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To: hripka

Here’s one.

What is a question that John McCain loves and Barack Obama hates?

“Tell us about your friends who delivered bombs during the Vietnam War.”


24 posted on 07/19/2008 7:47:36 AM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: Maverick68

25 posted on 07/19/2008 7:47:53 AM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

hahahahaaa!

Yer right! :^D

Here she is ... the REAL hillary and her big butt!

http://www.butts42.com/uploads/XLFlavaHillarySet1x51.jpg

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anudder ‘un:

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn162/giggums/hillary-clinton-fat.jpg


26 posted on 07/19/2008 7:51:06 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I’ll have an argula mojito!


27 posted on 07/19/2008 7:52:28 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: MeekOneGOP

Stop it. You’re killing me.


28 posted on 07/19/2008 7:59:11 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: Dr. Ursus

I googled argula mojito. Your post was the top of the list.


29 posted on 07/19/2008 8:02:33 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

haha! :^D

Gotta hit the road and hed fer woik now.

See ya latah ...


30 posted on 07/19/2008 8:06:15 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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31 posted on 07/19/2008 8:07:45 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." Ronald Reagan)
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To: rabscuttle385

LOL!


32 posted on 07/19/2008 8:09:46 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: MeekOneGOP

woik sux


33 posted on 07/19/2008 8:13:39 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running. FREE LAZAMATAZ)
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To: hripka
Obama is an easy target...you just have to be a Conservative and most political comedians are Liberals.

Try this on for size.

On "Burnishing" One's Credentials alá Barack Obama, the Best Dead-pan Joke of the Year
34 posted on 07/19/2008 8:14:54 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
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To: hripka

I already have a lot of funny stuff on Obama, but they keep getting removed here.


35 posted on 07/19/2008 8:15:23 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: hripka
Trying to come up with jokes about Obama is like trying to come up with jokes about the Holocaust or children dying of cancer. Some things are just too damned tragic to joke about.

President Obama. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

36 posted on 07/19/2008 8:45:09 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (DNC = Do Nothing Congress)
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To: hripka

I didn’t make it up, but.....it’s a good one.

Q: What do Obama and Osama have in common?

A: They both have friends who’ve bombed the Pentagon.


37 posted on 07/19/2008 9:00:47 AM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Obammunists: Millions fooled daily!!!)
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To: hripka
No fun for the babies here.


38 posted on 07/19/2008 9:06:38 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: hripka

There are plenty of jokes about Black Whiteguilt Oblack. Take his wife....Please!

Pray for W and Our Troops


39 posted on 07/19/2008 9:15:23 AM PDT by bray (Drill Congress!!)
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To: hripka

Q: What can Obama do that no other person can do?

A: Make me want McCain as president!


40 posted on 07/19/2008 9:22:01 AM PDT by Gridley_here
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To: MeekOneGOP

I have read that Hillary finds those nut-cracker figurines hilarious, and buys them by the case to pass out as favors to guests.


41 posted on 07/19/2008 9:22:58 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: hripka

July 17
Saying he is “sympathetic to late night comedians’ struggle to find jokes to make about me,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) today issued a list of official campaign-approved Barack Obama jokes. The five jokes, which Sen. Obama said he is making available to all comedians free of charge, are as follows:

Barack Obama and a kangaroo pull up to a gas station. The gas station attendant takes one look at the kangaroo and says, “You know, we don’t get many kangaroos here.” Barack Obama replies, “At these prices, I’m not surprised. That’s why we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”

A traveling salesman knocks on the door of a farmhouse, and much to his surprise, Barack Obama answers the door. The salesman says, “I was expecting the farmer’s daughter.” Barack Obama replies, “She’s not here. The farm was foreclosed on because of subprime loans that are making a mockery of the American Dream.”

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Why the long face?” Barack Obama replies, “His jockey just lost his health insurance, which should be the right of all Americans.”

Q: What’s black and white and red all over?
Barack Obama: The New Yorker magazine, which should be embarrassed after publishing such a tasteless and offensive cover, which I reject and denounce.

A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, “This joke isn’t going to work because there’s no Muslim in this boat.”


42 posted on 07/19/2008 10:37:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: vietvet67

A good one!


43 posted on 07/19/2008 10:54:39 AM PDT by kitkat (EX DEO LIBERTAS (From God, liberty))
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To: hripka
Barack Hussien Obama's SHIT stinks so bad even his own mother couldn't deal with it.

Click on Video "She changed his diapers"

44 posted on 07/19/2008 1:02:40 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Bender2

Once you go Barack, you just never go back?


45 posted on 07/19/2008 2:00:32 PM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: hripka
The consensus is there's not yet one standout attribute to pound away on (McCain is old! Clinton cheats on his wife! Bush is stupid! Al Gore is a robot! John Kerry makes me feel inexplicably sad inside

Gosh Joel you think EgoBama "When I was nominated the very rising of the oceans was halted!" has no standout attribute? OK

46 posted on 07/19/2008 4:52:07 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (In Cleveland: No one may kill a mouse in the streets without a hunting license)
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To: ccmay; Conspiracy Guy
I have read that Hillary finds those nut-cracker figurines hilarious,
and buys them by the case to pass out as favors to guests.

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Probably because they are flattering since they don't show how big her
hips and thighs really are ????

See post #26 for the REAL Hillary!

:)

47 posted on 07/19/2008 10:13:45 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

Helps pay the bills and it is nice to work with some
really nice folks too.

My Dad would say ...

“Work”, that’s a FOUR LETTER word. :)


48 posted on 07/19/2008 10:22:55 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (McRINO needs reach across the aisle to Conservatives for a CHANGE! Dang him!!!)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Yep . Hillary wishes she looked like the nutcracker.


49 posted on 07/20/2008 5:06:01 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Good people do help make it less painful


50 posted on 07/20/2008 5:06:48 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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