Oh, happy day! My little heart goes pitter-pat! Another entry in the happy pantehon of conservative humor! Move over, Mallard Fillmore! Look out, Dennis Miller! Have another cold one, P.J. O’Rourke, and tell us one more time how you used to be a dope-smoking hippy but have seen the light of alcoholism. (Sure has done wonders for Christopher Hitchens, who looks like a corpse scoping for a place to lie down…)
I can hardly wait for the scathing, Swiftian wit that is sure to come pouring out like the slime from your video! Clinton cigar jokes! *More * Clinton cigar jokes! Some classic Bob Hope lines about hippies, baths and jobs!
I might offer myself, but my politics are somewhat…center leftish. But we have many, many budding humorists hereabouts, keening for an opportunity like this! I won’t name names, but you know who you are!
Rejoice, breethren and sistren, pals and gals! The day of Jubilee is upon us!
The thing they’re prone to miss on is that although the Stewart’s politics are certainly left-of-center, it mocks all sides, rather like the Onion. Moreover, the Daily Show does treat the conservative pundits that come on his show with respect, even though he will engage in some debate with them.
I’m not holding my breath for similar treatment on this Faux News Channel offering.
Do you really think there’s no one in this country who wouldn’t still laugh at those things? Not me, and I assume, not you; but they’re out there, and we ignore them at our peril.
Rick Reynolds said it better: “Only the Truth Is Funny”
On the right the only one I could think was capable of making the untruths from the right to be funny was Rush L. and even he recently admitted it was a thankless job.
Sure, you will find people who will laugh, but it is a shrinking demographic…
If a punch line involves…
…Clinton’s blowjob? Take a drink.
…Chappaquiddick? Two drinks.
They might find a smallish audience among the so-called South Park Republicans, but I can’t see this going much of anywhere. In particular, a lot of the humor in TDS (and in any successful comedy that appeals to the younger set) comes from irreverence and an ability to hold nothing sacred. Conservatives, almost by definition, don’t really like that.
And you have to remember that Fox News is not so much conservative as it is a Republican house organ. It’s certainly possible to be idealogically conservative and be funny; I mean, there’s P.J. O’Rourke, and…well…OK, so there’s P.J. O’Rourke. But I don’t see how a show trying to get humor out of politics will be able to do so in the next few years while maintaining Fox’s degree of fellatio on the Bush adminstration and the Republican leadership.
But this isn’t blue collar TV. That’s very lowbrow, and if they’re looking to compete with The Daily Show, they’ll have to do a somewhat more intellectual take on the way Democrats are ruining this country by not being in power.
