Wednesday, July 30, 2008

"Prez Obama"—The Death of Comedy?

My great friend KJeffV on digg.com states in his description that Julia Gorin razzes the Left's apparent inability to find any "humorous jab" material concerning their messiah, OBH. That was an excellent description of Julia's commentary on the "Death of Comedy" should Barack win in November.

What Julia says is mostly true. The Left won't be able to come up with any comedy. We'll have to depend on the Right to bring us any good comedy regarding the possible presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. That means that we will have to depend on the intellectualized humor of Dennis Miller. Team him up with John McCain and maybe we can still have some comedy in our lives. It just won't be from the left. Those addicted to late night TV talk shows and Saturday Night Live for their political humor fix will be going through withdrawals. On Tonight with Jay Leno, there was a great comedian as a regular guest that could perfectly impersonate President George W. Bush. Those days will be over, which won't matter that much anyway. I won't be watching Tonight after Conan takes Jay Leno's place. As sad as it may be, Julia's commentary stated how the Left won't be able to come up with humor, and the reality is that some of us on the Right had also depended on the left-sided media having the monopoly on the late-night talk show host humor market, so there will be a problem. Solution: Replace Dennis Miller for Conan O'Brien on "Tonight", and there could be some hope. Add John McCain as the side-kick, and it could easily bring back the Johnny Carson-Ed McMahon days of old. Of course, though, keep in mind that we are just talking about the late-night TV genre. We will always have the talk-radio hosts and Fox News that will always find something funny about Barack. They are the few that aren't afraid of the PC Humor Freeze. And best of all, we'll still have the blogs. We'll still have youtube. You and I will still have plenty to laugh at; although, some of the things that Obama will do will be too sad to laugh at. That may be the saddest point of all when we come right down to it.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, your right John, it will be no laughing matter if Mr. Obama becomes President but the joy of the Lord will be our strength.

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