# That's My Bush: Is this supposed to be FUNNY? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 29, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968 "2001-03-29T14:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/21 "2001-03-30T15:44:48Z")
Some slight disagreement with ya, Smeg. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*You’ve had two successes that I can think of - South Park and the Daily Show, with Win Ben Stein’s Money a marginal third. \*\* Hm, well _The Man Show_ is rather successful. Plus it’s much less pathetic than FX’s _X-Show_ which reeks of male midlife crisis (as opposed to _TMS_ which reeks of cheap beer and sweaty baseball caps). And _Battlebots_ seems to be doing so well that TLC is apparently [ripping it off](http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/robotica/robotica.html). > [@](#): > > Strip Mall > The Upright Citizen’s Brigade > That show whose name I can’t remember with the 40-year-old high school student > Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush > VS (the short-lived Greg Proops vehicle) Nice rack, but not a great show. Actually pretty funny, if a bit edgy That would be _Strangers with Candy_ I belive _DFYT_ was orginally a British game show. CC used the exact same gags and everything. Yeah VS bit it. On the Matt & Trey as Republicans, I could have sworn Yahoo News had a recent article quoting them saying they were Republicans, but it was also about the supposed lesbian daughter plot line. If that turned out to be a rumor, perhaps Yahoo pulled the article. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > **the joke about President Bush being stupid has worn thin** And “Hi, Opal!” hasn’t? \ [Edited by Alphagene on 03-30-2001 at 09:47 AM] ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/22 "2001-03-30T17:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > He graduated from **Yale** , fer Chrissake! So? I graduated from Harvard, and I’m a complete idiot. Trust me, you would **not** want me running the US. Still, I wasn’t the dumbest guy on campus. That honor was reserved for one of my roommates who, incidentally, was the son of a former head of state. Ah, legacies. Of course, when whatever turnip I’ve passed my genes on to gets accepted because of dad, you won’t hear me complaining. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/23 "2001-03-30T18:05:00Z")
from [http://www.denverpost.com/scene/ost0122.htm](http://www.denverpost.com/scene/ost0122.htm) "According to Parker, this is not a political show but a show that satirizes the American sitcom. “We had been wanting for several years to do a sitcom that sort of ripped on sitcoms, because we hate them so much.” For their purposes, the party affiliation of the new president was unimportant. “It didn’t matter whether it was Bush or it was Gore because we’re not out to skewer a president; we’re out to do something very subversive and actually make you really love this guy.” and "Production won’t start for a month, and much of the casting and character development remains sketchy. However, when word leaked to the Internet last month about the show’s possible portrayal of the Bush twins as lesbian lovers, “We started getting calls from Washington,” Parker said. Republican operatives reportedly have expressed displeasure about the concept to Viacom lobbyists. Naturally, Parker said, that just “makes us want to do it all the more.” (For now, they say it won’t happen.)" More at [http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/265446\_bark\_18ove.ART.html](http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/265446_bark_18ove.ART.html) ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/24 "2001-03-30T18:46:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\* we’ll just appoint an independant counsel to investigate Bush for the rest of his life with an unlimited budget who dosen’t have to answere to anyone. > > How about that? \*\* Oh, yes! Please! I don’t have a problem with this at all,and I very much hope it is extremely rude. As far as I’m concerned, he ain’t the president. Let all the ridicule and disrespect we can come up with be piled upon his stupid, prevaricating head. He is a pretender, entirely owned and operated by big oil/big business, and using his stolen position to be more insufferably evil than even I had foreseen. So, yes, let the derision begin! (I hadn’t taken any opportunities to express my deep and abiding antipathy for him lately, this seemed like as good as any) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/25 "2001-03-30T21:25:59Z")
I really hate to keep beating this issue, but since you don’t seem to have any qualms about it Stoid, I guess I shouldn’t either. I really think you ought to get a damned hobby before this thing totally consumes you. Would you mind telling just how Bush has “stolen” the presidency? If I remember correctly, the U.S. citizens voted, the ballots were counted, some of them several times, the Supreme Court upheld the outcome of the counts, the electoral college was appointed, the members cast their votes for the persons to which they were pledged, and Bush was sworn to the office. All of this took place according to the laws in place at the time, under great scrutiny and no provable violations of law have surfaced. In short, you are full of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/26 "2001-03-30T22:32:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*In short, you are full of shit. \*\* Ah, come on, **Unc.** You _know_ if the electoral college vote came down to the wire in a state governed by Pinky Gore, Al’s little brother, and there was evidence that golfpants-wearing middle-aged white guys were “discouraged” from casting their votes, and Gore WON the electoral college vote (we won’t even discuss the 550,000 popular vote shortfall, fair enough?), that you Repubs would be mighty god damn sore, don’t you? Admit it. Rush Limbaugh would’ve grown a second head by now. Pat Robertson would’ve moved to Guatemala. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/27 "2001-03-30T23:06:57Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* I really think you ought to get a damned hobby before this thing totally consumes you._\* I said in that very post, truthfully I think, that I hadn’t expressed my utter contempt for that man in quite awhile. It’s not as though I have been responsible for even ONE anti-bush thread in months, because I have not. And I have very rarely contributed to any that have been started by others. So I think you better be careful to watch that knee as it spasms in response to my name, Uncle. However, my relative lack of comment doesn’t mean my opinion of the election has changed, and my opinion of him just keeps getting lowered a bit more each day by his own actions. Which I would have thought impossible, but life is filled with surprises. > [@](#): > > \*\* > Would you mind telling just how Bush has “stolen” the presidency? > \*\* Actually, I would mind. Reliving the magic of last November and december holds no fascination for me whatsoever. It has all been covered in great depth in literally dozens of threads. What was also established in those threads is that there is some major disagreement in how we all see these things. This is true not only of the Dope, but of the world at large. Many people feel as I do. I see him referred to as having stolen the presidency all the time. I agree. You do not. I tend to be of the opinion that those who see it as you do are full of things other than accurate reflections of reality, as well. And what is to be done about this discrepency? Nuthin’. I’ll continue to hate the man in the White House and believe he is a thief, a liar, and probably, like his daddy before him\*, a criminal of far greater import and meaning than Clinton could dream of. [sub]iran-contra[/sub] I will also continue to believe in what Lieberman said only partially in jest: that he is vice-president of a government in exile. You won’t. Oh well. \ stoid \*After all, he’s outdone his daddy in other respects as well…it took his father years to break his promise of “No new taxes”, and even then his hand was forced. Dubya started breaking promises and revealing what a slimy little lying fuck he was within days, hell, hours! of taking office. I don’t doubt the son will outshine the father in many more ways yet to be enjoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/28 "2001-03-30T23:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alphagene \* > \*\* > Hm, well _The Man Show_ is rather successful. Plus it’s much less pathetic than FX’s _X-Show_ which reeks of male midlife crisis (as opposed to _TMS_ which reeks of cheap beer and sweaty baseball caps). And _Battlebots_ seems to be doing so well that TLC is apparently [ripping it off](http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/robotica/robotica.html). > \*\* Granted. Those are both OK. Though _Battlebots_ is also a ripoff of a British show… Hey, I was going off the top of my head. But the overall record is still not hopeful. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/29 "2001-03-31T00:05:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\* > But the overall record is still not hopeful. \*\* Actually, I’d venture to guess that proportionally (?) Comedy Central is doing as well or better than any network. After all, the networks produce or buy newly produced programming to cover what…20 hours a day? All 24? And how much of it is worthwhile? Comedy Central produces 10 shows, and 3-5 are worthwhile? That’s pretty good. Better than the nets, I think! Of course, HBO has created 6 original shows (Larry Sanders, Oz, Arliss, Sex and City, Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiasm) and 4 are solidly top-notch, one is an acquired taste, and only one sucks anywhere nearly as much as say… “Growing Pains”. Not bad! stoid ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/30 "2001-03-31T00:22:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > Of course, HBO has created 6 original shows (Larry Sanders, Oz, Arliss, Sex and City, Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiasm) and 4 are solidly top-notch, one is an acquired taste, and only one sucks anywhere nearly as much as say… “Growing Pains”. Not bad! I agree with you on HBO – I wonder if our groupings match though. Top-notch: Sopranos, Larry Sanders, Arliss, Oz Acquired taste: Curb Your Enthusiam Sucks: Sex and the City As for Comedy Central, don’t forget _Politically Incorrect_, which was a good show before it left the network. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/31 "2001-03-31T00:48:43Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by JeffB \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Top-notch: Sopranos, Larry Sanders, Arliss, Oz > Acquired taste: Curb Your Enthusiam > Sucks: Sex and the City > > \*\* Flip “Sex” and “Arliss” and you’ve got it. And I have a feeling that would hold true for most women/most men. 🙂 (God, i really think Arliss sucks… you hate Sex? LOVE it! I’m a gurl, yer a boy… and ain’t it great??) ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/32 "2001-03-31T03:37:43Z")
You’re probably right on the man/woman thing, but I’d bet that more women like _Arli$$_ (I remembered the $$ that time) than men like _Sex and the City_. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/33 "2001-03-31T09:12:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JeffB \* > \*\*You’re probably right on the man/woman thing, but I’d bet that more women like _Arli$$_ (I remembered the $$ that time) than men like _Sex and the City_. \*\* See, now I woulda said the opposite! My man loves S&TC, he’s the one that turned me on to it! See, at least our show has SEX! which men love. All your show has is sports, which women don’t care about. (generally). So… Sex wins. 😃 stoid ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/34 "2001-03-31T13:59:08Z")
Sure _S&TC_ has sex, but so does _Oz_. And _Oz_ has better looking women. Beecher in freakin’ drag looks better than the aging butterfaces on _Sex_. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/35 "2001-04-05T07:00:47Z")
since the show has premiered. Did anyone watch? I saw enough of it to be surprised that there wasn’t at least one thread started by a pro-lifer expressing perfect outrage. What I saw wasn’t too harsh on Bush, no harsher than SNL…but the 30-year-old aborted-fetus-president-of right-to-life-organization could certainly be seen as extraordinarily offensive by some people. We thought it was pretty funny, but I fully expect to hear howls of protest…or maybe not? Wouldn’t that be interesting… ---
**Author:** ![jeyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@jeyen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeyen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/36 "2001-04-05T07:07:47Z")
There’s a discussion going on in [IMHO](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=66375) now. That one may become Pit-worthy shortly. Jeyen ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968/37 "2001-04-05T20:19:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid > > Did anyone watch? I did. To answer the title of the OP, yes, it was supposed to be funny. **Supposed** to be. Instead, I found it to be incredibly lame. I laughed maybe twice, but that was pretty forced laughter. On a scale of cleverness and humor, I’d rate it right up there with Sanford and Son, Saved by the Bell, and Facts of Life. Only without the cleverness and humor. As far as being insulting to pro-lifers, pro-choicers didn’t come out smelling any better. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-my-bush-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/59968.md?page=1)