nydailynews.com - 11/2/2008
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Saturday, November 1st 2008, 4:00 AM If American comedy needs politics like balloons need air, then the presidency is like the Macy's Thanksgiving parade: lots of big, floating characters waiting to be punctured. So what do you do if, come January, the guy sitting in the Oval Office is an ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/9/2008
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Change We Can Believe In From the Washington
Post: "Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled...
a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on ...
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Change We Can Believe In
mediabloodhound.typepad.com - 11/7/2008
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Gilbert As the majority of Americans continue to
bask in the glow of Barack Obama's landslide victory...
on Tuesday, comedians nationwide have suddenly fallen on hard times. Some literally. Widespread reports of comics leaping from windows on Election ...
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The Wounded-Courier: Comedy World Devastated by Obama ...
nypost.com - 11/5/2008
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nypost.com —
Last updated: 10:32 pm November 4, 2008 Posted:
10:16 pm November 4, 2008 Barack Obama scored a...
barrier-breaking victory tonight to become the first black president of the United States - capping a 22-month quest that tapped into a national hunger for ...
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BARACK OBAMA WINS THE PRESIDENCY - New York Post
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"An Obama presidency would be great for comedy, as it signals a rise in the intelligence level of America..."
Althouse —
"... which makes for better, more ironic and layered jokes." From an article about how an Obama presidency will change comedy, that's a quote from a famous American comedian. Try to guess which one before you look. I guarantee you'll be wrong. So, anyway, there's the issue whether it will be too hard to joke about Obama. There are really 2 problems: 1. He so wonderful and well-liked -- at least by the usual comedians! -- that there's no basis for edginess, anger, and sarcasm. We're not going to laugh at jokes about how there's nothing to joke about. So what can be funny? 2. He's black, and white comedians feel they can't go all-out exploiting that characteristic for jokes. If McCain wins, comedians can make jokes about his age and his ...
He who laughs last laughs best
sisu —
"The disastrous course of the past 4 years?" Try telling that to Baby Cakes, Mr. Gore. He and his sis, the Divine Miss T, have been having the time of their lives.
"Hello Donot," writes the unspeakable Al Gore in an email forwarded to us by his dear "friend," our own Taxachusetts Senator John Kerry: By the narrowest of margins, we lost our ...
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