You do understand the nature of comedy, right? If an audience reacts to a comedian by going “hmmm…food for thought” instead of laughing, they may need to find another line of work.
The best comedy has both effects.
Yes, comedians can’t be sued for slander or libel. They can lie to your face. About you or someone else. It’s all just a part of their comedy routine. Nothing personal. Or necessarily truthful. After all, nobody said their jokes had to get a laugh from every audience, or audience member.
Or politicians.
Your turn. 
If immunity from defamation suits is your interpretation of “the nature of comedy,” you may not fully understand the concept (leaving aside the fact that comedians can be sued for slander or libel under the proper circumstances).
Or conservatives. Game. Set. Match.
See Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, etc.
Or the Democrat collective. 
Comedy is comedy. You laugh at, or with, the comedian. Some people seem to believe that comedy routines are the same as facts.
See Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, etc.
Yeah I don’t envy you and I can see it’s a hard life. Humor, or wit just isn’t a good look for conservatives these days, or ever.
So it’s the comedians fault, after Obama.
It is my understanding that the Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority vote, so that’s not really binding.
Some people are saying that the Republicans are shirking their constitutional duty by not holding personal meetings with Judge Garland, some say there must be hearings before the Judiciary committee, and others, like the President and Sen. Kirk, are calling for a vote on the Senate floor.
I don’t think that any of those actions–personal meetings, hearings, or floor votes, are required under the Constitution.
Strictly speaking, no, they are not.
Difficult as it might be for anyone to understand who was required to read The Federalist Papers in HS or college, our FFs, for all their practical experience in colonial/state government, and for all their careful attention to Enlightenment political theory and to Locke and Montesquieu and the example of the British Constitution, failed to quite sufficiently anticipate and provide safeguards against pure partisan assholery. The which all of this is, on the Pub side and not on the Dem, and no little least thing more, as you very well know, D’Anconia.
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I agree. But I think some action on the nomination is constitutionally required beyond McConnell’s middle finger. That is not to say that I think there is a remedy for this violation, other than at the ballot box, though.
Paula Poundstone is a comedian?
That’s what it says on her tax returns. She still pops up with some regularity on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me… and spends the rest of the time gigging, according to her Twitter feed.
It’s not the comedians fault. They are just looking for a shtick that someone will pay them to perform. The content is based on what pays more. Their heavily-edited-for-laughs-instead-of-the-facts comedy routines are what pays the bills, if they can find an audience for their comedy.
The FF’s assumed that the voters would be the safeguard against government assholery. If We the Voters do not like our current bunch of duly elected representatives, we’re expected to vote in a new bunch of elected representatives.
The voters change the President from Republican to Democrat. The voters changed control of the U.S. House and control of the U.S. Senate from Democrat to Republican. The people have spoken.
We’ll just have to keep on voting until we find a bunch that can work together.
Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! 
The problem is that The People are idiots.
I’ve never seen anything from John Oliver, Jon Stewart or Samantha Bee that was taken out of context for laughs. Really, there is no need, given the ample ammunition politicians dish up regularly.