Letters to the Editor
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electro robot
As you're painfully aware, we don't often agree, but you're spot on with this one. Literal, one dimensional stupidity is rapidly becoming the norm- and not even Norm from Cheers. He was a one joke drunk, but at least he had some self-knowledge. We're raising a race of cretins, and they ain't from Crete.
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very funny
Late night comedy? What do you think the Bush Administration is? You have a President who said in a public forum "I know that fish and human beings can live in peace." He also said he was going to terrorise America - and that's the only promise he ever kept. Stewart, Colbert and Maher pay good money for lines like the ones Bush comes up with. The best comment on all of this is that Timothy Bottoms played George in 'That's my Bush' written by the creators of South Park and he also played George in a movie about 9/11. Nuff said. If you want to see the most ludicrously bad movie ever made, I recommend the 9/11 movie to you.
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The Best Political Satire Comes From Stewart and Colbert
And if you have any doubts about it, go to the Daily Show website and watch the episode that followed Dick Cheney's shooting of Harry Wittington in the face, and another involving John Hodgman providing the "keys to success" in Iraq.
Add to that Colbert's "truthiness" episode and his brilliant skewering of BushCo and the Media at the Correspondents' Dinner and you've got those two in a class all by themselves.
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Comedy isn't funny. Neither is democracy.
Yawning should replace laugh tracks and "live" audiences. Much of the late night comics are perfect snooze inducers. As for democracy, it might be funny except it remains stuck in neutral. It too provides more zzz's than yucks. Wake me when the election is over.
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Comedy as A Release
The question that this piece seems to be hovering around is the importance of comedy in our nation's political discourse. Comedy is often the sugar coating on a hard to swallow pill: that discussing political ideologies and stances is uncomfortable for many. Comedy allows us to discuss these issues without the heavy-handed attacks that both sides of American political discourse perpetrate. Thus comedy allows for civil political discourse to occur.
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Colbert, Stewart & Maher
Colbert may be the H.L. Menken of our times, or perhaps an intellectual's Will Rogers. He appears to have no sacred cows and is fearless in exposing boobery, phoniness and pretense wherever he finds it. Not as true with Stewart and Maher, who never seem to target those outside of their idealogical sphere. Maher, who I still like to watch, has unfortunately become decreasingly funny, shrill and predicable since the 2000 election and his shtick now consists mostly of constant apoplexy over the election of GW Bush.
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puller flush man
your erection is over. nothing left to pull. back to sleep, as if it differs from your waking state.
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And Jonathan Swift WAS Irish
Which makes "A Modest Proposal" the angriest prose in the English language, ever. You see there's a difference between poking fun at your leaders and making them look a little stupider than they are, and real satire, the angry dark stuff burnished and hardened by rage and disappointment. Good satire makes you squirm and look for the exits.
In John Milton's time, writers were executed for going a little too far. That's why Areopagitica is such a monument and he and John Dryden were exiled, imprisoned or lavished with wealth depending on who was in power. Today's crop pales in comparison to guys like Doug Stanhope or the older generation of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce etc.
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say what?
"Stewart's pretty biased himself
I haven't heard him make fun of McCain, yet, and Obama seems pretty safe as well. "
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Making Democracy Funny
Stewart/Colbert/Maher are doing a public service. They are making democracy accessible. Current events are explained IN DETAIL and in a way that makes it easy to understand. CNN and other MSM tend to hedge their comments so as not to offend and Stewart et al. don't have to be careful. They come out and show the clips of the WH Press Secretaries saying different things on different days.
In my opinion, the most important thing they do is show that the inner workings of the government are not something that is beyond the average citizen's comprehension. We all can understand being lied to, we all can understand when the facts don't add up. In fact, in a democracy, we're not only supposed to understand those things, but we're expected to act on them! What we think makes a difference and Stewart et al. have made it clear that we are a thinking electorate, we just need someone to give us the facts!
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we're through the looking glass now folks
the daily show, colbert, and maher (who always was content driven, not sheer humor) are wherer you go for insightful analysis, fact checking, etc.; the mainstream news is where you go for something silly.
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Late night political jokes
The last sentence says it all. The electorate is too dumb to make democracy work. Good Bill Mahr satire goes way over most heads. Voters want to be bribed. and pols are only too happy to accommodate.
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What about Craig?
How come nobody has mentioned Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson . . . funny, fresh, adorable, and naughty. He's going to be doing this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Granted, he wasn't their first choice -- the other guys were either too busy or too afraid, but still. Now that he's a bonafide US citizen, he knows nothing he says will get him booted back to Scotland.