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October 29, 2013

Jon Stewart and SNL on Obama and ObamaCare
— Ace

I do appreciate that Jon Stewart notes the obvious -- the large number of things Obama is supposedly "not in the loop" on is alarming. Either he is lying, or he is a Chauncey Gardiner-like figurehead, who gives speeches and plays golf while the real president(s), unelected and unaccountable, do the actual governing.

But his bit is just not funny. The skit that follows is just Pure Silly, and hence not damaging to Obama at all. It's also not funny, partly because it's so intentionally non-damaging.

And here's this past weekend's SNL cold open about ObamaCare. All I can say is that the show is awful. Even when they have a rich target like this, their jokes border on the amateur, and also echo a lot of previous (better) jokes that have been done on the show.

In both cases I think it's pretty clear the comedians' hearts are not in it -- they still think there's nothing at all funny about Obama, but feel compelled to acknowledge some obvious truths.

Posted by: Ace at 01:50 PM | Comments (156)
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1 I will happily take your word for its lack of humor.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 01:52 PM (oJ5Fd)

Rightwing blog, but centrist comments.

Posted by: Grey Fox at October 29, 2013 01:53 PM (4BqG3)

3 He's lying. It's what liars do. And someone needs to fix the center justification...

Posted by: turfmann at October 29, 2013 01:53 PM (GgGgG)

4 But what's the central theme here?

Posted by: Roman Maroni at October 29, 2013 01:54 PM (fJS4a)

5 Go to the barrel, it's over there in the center.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 01:54 PM (IV4od)

6 Always right justify in off-years. Only center during election years. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 29, 2013 01:54 PM (ZPrif)

7 Centered

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 01:54 PM (MnSla)

8 yeah Ace but like the idiot former staffer who gasp "got screwed I done did wrong backing this law" Jon Stewart and SNL could have not shielded the cocksucker to ease his reselection...

day late and a dollar fifty short

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 01:54 PM (9jfyN)

9 Obama's the center of the liberal universe.
That's why it can't be funny

Posted by: Roman Maroni at October 29, 2013 01:55 PM (fJS4a)

10 Ace,

This is the incomprehensible part about the MBM.

Obama is the government...he is the bad guy....or at least the government was the bad guy until 2008. What happened to comics and artists and the oh-so-hip people who salivated at the prospect of criticizing those in power?

Lenny Bruce is spinning in his grave.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 01:55 PM (oJ5Fd)

11 Stttttttrrrrrriiiiiiike. Right down the middle.

Posted by: Home Plate Ump at October 29, 2013 01:55 PM (0nYcq)

12 If we're going to be centrist commenters, should we begin every comment with "My Friends..."?

Posted by: turfmann at October 29, 2013 01:55 PM (GgGgG)

13 Luke...center your emotions...let go....

//Obi-Wan Carney

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 01:55 PM (9jfyN)

14 I agree that the show is generally bad (interspersed with some funny), and I do keep watching it out of a sense of wistfulness and memories of funny years gone by, but I actually thought the Ed Norton one was pretty funny. I was a little discomfited by Norton having enough plastic surgery that he turned into Joseph Gordon-Leavitt...

Posted by: DubsAtUSC at October 29, 2013 01:56 PM (KhioZ)

15 day late and a dollar fifty short

Inflation's a bitch

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 01:56 PM (MnSla)

16 Even lurking, I am feeling more centered

Posted by: traumakitty at October 29, 2013 01:56 PM (30mGz)

17 Hasn't SNL had pretty good ratings despite, you know, sucking?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 29, 2013 01:57 PM (ZPrif)

18 Any jokes about making twentysomething year olds ponying up a couple hundred bucks a month for shit they don't want?

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 01:57 PM (IV4od)

19 I said this in a dying thread this morning, but my youngest sister is developmentally disabled and when she was in her early teens her standard response when one of the family would prompt her on how to do something or try to correct her behaviour was "Well I didn't know!". She stopped responding that way by her early 20s, so when can we expect the smartest man on the planet to emulate my little sister?

Posted by: Joe at October 29, 2013 01:57 PM (9r3GM)

20 "Hello, Federal Express?" "Hello .... um, Federal ?" "um, Hello?"

Posted by: Adriane ... at October 29, 2013 01:57 PM (KoFMU)

21 That's because their hearts aren't in it because, Democrat.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 29, 2013 01:58 PM (qH/2Y)

22 17 JoethefatmanÂ™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 05:56 PM (MnSla)

Just wait 'til we're no longer the global reserve currency...

day late and a hundred fifty short

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 01:58 PM (9jfyN)

There's nothing funny here. You raaacist homophobe masogynist.

Posted by: Typical Lib at October 29, 2013 01:58 PM (W2qJe)

24 That Stewart reparte is punishingly unfunny.

Posted by: jakeman at October 29, 2013 01:58 PM (vH4YP)

25 If you like your centeredness
You can't keep it

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 01:58 PM (MnSla)

26 Something's just not quite right, here. Lemme see......

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 29, 2013 01:58 PM (LA7Cm)

27 Is this the more moderate, centered, thread?

Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (P6QsQ)

28 Here comes the leftward shift...

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (FcR7P)

29 Obama is a figure head (giver). Also, a dick head. And a homersexual. (Because giver of head.)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (ytQYB)

30 here's the easy answer: Obama didn't know he wasn't telling the truth, because the people writing the legislation didn't tell him the truth... Obama really wanted to say that "you can keep your coverage" so they misled him about what would really happen.
Someone Dem who lost re-election in 2010 can be thrown under the bus.
hat tip to Doug Ross for a quote from Rush L about how Obama seems to never know anything about anything, a sure sign that someone is brilliant off the charts

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (bJm7W)

31 True Sven

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (MnSla)

32 I get the feeling that Val-U-Rite vodka is being slammed by the gallon when people like Stewart realize that they have to make fun of the Lightworker.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (ODsL5)

33 I'm not centered.

Posted by: Generation W at October 29, 2013 01:59 PM (rCS6C)

34 Nothing like the squishy middle.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (0q2P7)

35 boxed and centered ugggh

Posted by: navycopjoe at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (qVKcL)

36 Stewart can take his clown nose off, tape it to a baseball bat, and shove it up his ass. He's got jaw cramps from sucking these guys off for five years. I hope all the fucksticks that work for him get their insurance cancelled.

Posted by: B at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (6iEQd)

37 A left thread and a right thread will be shortly following the centered thread, but not the tall thread.

Posted by: traumakitty at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (30mGz)

38 He is, however, funnier than Jon Stewart, who hasn't been funny at all since at least 2005.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (ytQYB)

39 I think it's pretty clear the comedians' hearts are not in it Because how can you leave the "1-800-F1UCKYO" goldmine untouched? Surely, someone has noticed, right?

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (FcR7P)

40 Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (WvXvd)

41 >>>I'm not centered.

BWAHAHA!
http://memestorage.com/_nw/22/04007836.jpg

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (0q2P7)

42 The thread isn't messed up, it's transitioning to misalignmnent

Posted by: kbdabear at October 29, 2013 02:00 PM (aTXUx)

43 the trick is to make sure your sentences are all the correct length to meet both sides

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (bJm7W)

"here's the easy answer: Obama didn't know he wasn't telling the truth, because the people writing the legislation didn't tell him the truth... "

Uh, that its, I mean, er, that's right, even he was fooled by all this!

Posted by: MSM at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (LA7Cm)

45 oh piss

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (bJm7W)

46 traumakitty
What about the short thread? Or are you a heightist?

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (MnSla)

47 A man A plan A canal Panama

Posted by: jakeman at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (vH4YP)

48 Don't do the brown acid. Bad juju & centering resilts.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (NKBxV)

49 38 B at October 29, 2013 06:00 PM (6iEQd)

B, I salute you...well said.

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 02:01 PM (9jfyN)

50 The thread isn't misaligned, it's transitioning to central daylight time

Posted by: kbdabear at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (aTXUx)

51 OT (sorry ace) for the gamers on PCs, don't buy Battlefield4, if you did and didn't download it yet, kill the order it only works on google chrome and then crashes on launch for the campaign

Posted by: navycopjoe at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (qVKcL)

52 So much good material left on the table. Sad really.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (0q2P7)

53 So Jon Stewart and SNL take a moment off from their relentless flacking for Jugears O'fuckstick to toss a crumb to the Right.

Yippee.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (8ZskC)

54 Stay
on
target!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (0q2P7)

55 I took the SNL skit as the officially confirmation that Sebelius is expendable. Otherwise, the skit would have included Ted Cruz hacking the site as the real reason it didn't work.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (JRmiD)

56 41 t-bird at October 29, 2013 06:00 PM (FcR7P)

I think they were the target demographic for that gem and laugh at US for "Ogabe telling YOU Teahadist"

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (9jfyN)

57 Jon Stewart is a lot less funny than Jay Carney. Fact. Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 29, 2013 02:02 PM (ytQYB)

58
DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT 10m

Top Dem: Those aren't 'cancellation notices,' they're 'transitions'... http://drudge.tw/16Ih3Ns

Posted by: kbdabear at October 29, 2013 02:03 PM (aTXUx)

59 Try maybe.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at October 29, 2013 02:03 PM (U2UQk)

60 There was foreshadowing of Zero's lack of knowledge back when he didn't know how to work an umbrella.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:03 PM (Hx5uv)

61 Where are all the new Carlins and Pryors, or Sam Kinnisons? Instead we're stuck with the likes of Jon Stewart. Sad.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 29, 2013 02:04 PM (9jLim)

62 re 62: or how many states there are

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:04 PM (bJm7W)

63 Quick someone call John McCain. He can help us find the left!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at October 29, 2013 02:04 PM (0q2P7)

64 E FP TOZ LPED PECFD EDFCZP

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2013 02:05 PM (FcR7P)

65 </c>

Posted by: wheatie at October 29, 2013 02:05 PM (uzPgI)

66 63 Dr Spank at October 29, 2013 06:04 PM (9jLim)

Grammy Sammy was a libertarian free market guy....

no way in hell he happens now....

the left wing rage machine far exceeds the right wing rage machine in power....

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 02:05 PM (9jfyN)

67 This is centered enough to need yoga pants.

http://tinyurl.com/kg5w3l3

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 02:05 PM (MnSla)

68 We could do haikus.

Posted by: NCKate at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (cdd1u)

69 64 re 62: or how many states there are Office of The President Elect.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (NKBxV)

70 "The White House and State Department signed off on surveillance targeting phone conversations of friendly foreign leaders, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, pushing back against assertions that President Obama and his aides were unaware of the high-level eavesdropping.

Professional staff members at the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies are angry, these officials say, believing the president has cast them adrift as he tries to distance himself from the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have strained ties with close allies."

***

Hope and Change, motherfuckers. Taste the fucking rainbow....

Posted by: B at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (6iEQd)

71 Om 2011 there was a videp by a comic, Ross Bennett, explaining why comedians don't do jokes about Obama. It's because they treated him as if he was the kid on the short bus who needed to be protected. It seems to have disappeared so Obamaco must have gotten it axed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (23Kgq)

72 My "premium" insurance apparently did not meet the "minimum standards" of Obamacare. I had insurance on the date Obamacare was signed into law. I was supposed to be grandfathered in. I don't know how I could have possibly had better insurance. I literally had the best, most expensive plan my insurer offered. But Obama killed my insurance anyway.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (ZPrif)

73 @66 E GR Ampersand Smiley Face Mailman

Posted by: Hans Moleman at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (Ec6wH)

74 I guess we do have Louis C.K., so huzzah!

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 29, 2013 02:06 PM (9jLim)

75 Late

Either he is lying, or he is a Chauncey Gardiner-like figurehead, who gives speeches and plays golf while the real president(s), unelected and unaccountable, do the actual governing.

I have been saying that for a long time now. Both are equally probably or both or true which is probably the most probable.

Vajayjay the Chicago slum Queen is running the office, Obama does nothing but speechify and play golf, and he knows what is going on so he is lying.

Posted by: Vic at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (zZbNF)

76 Remember when Obama would pretend to be scratching his face but was really flipping someone off? Now, that was comedy.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (Hx5uv)

77 Obama: No one is madder than I am about [blah blah]. I'm going to work a 20-hour week to make sure [blah blah] gets fixed. MSM: Hey, let's never mention this again or follow up on this. Yay, memory hole!

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (sByIH)

78 I wasn't going to post on a centered thread because everyone knows if you play in the middle of the road you get run over and personally, I'm tired of that shit. When SNL & JS get more centered on their criticism of TFG I *might* watch, but for now someone else can take one for the team. They both suck and in SNL's case, have for decades.

Posted by: Gmac-Pondering the coming implosion at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (IanLz)

79 The left's defense of Obama is that he's ignorant.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (SzAZ7)

The bigger the purchase, the worse the buyers remorse is. They invested everything in the boy king.

Barak' I just cant quit you, signed, liberals everywhere

Posted by: The Jackhole at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (nTgAI)

81 If you want to lie to me and tell me those are jokes, okay, fine. But there's no comedy here, folks. To call this clap-trap comedy is like calling Arsenio Hall a talk show host.

Posted by: Fritz at October 29, 2013 02:07 PM (TKFmG)

82 Ten Minutes of Your Sunday is Well Worth This

http://tinyurl.com/m6emzms

This is another good jon stewart recent rant. He talks about the fine for JP Morgan.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 02:08 PM (Nx76m)

83 Da BEARS Super Bowl CHAMPIONS!!!!

Posted by: navycopjoe at October 29, 2013 02:08 PM (qVKcL)

84 It kills them that their god king is a bumbling fool.They'll never admit it though.

Posted by: steevy at October 29, 2013 02:08 PM (zqvg6)

85 raining leeringly
streams patter noisily, plump
frostbites emerge, rude

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 02:08 PM (9jfyN)

86 Posted by: bonhomme at October 29, 2013 06:07 PM (sByIH) ~ Don't forget Laser-Like focus.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (SzAZ7)

87 navycopjoe

I see what you did there. Nice.

Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (P6QsQ)

88 Lame. The word sophomoric comes to mind. Centered of course.

Posted by: Nip Sip at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (0FSuD)

89 ♫ Here I am... stuck in the middle with you ♫

Posted by: non-essential commenter #27791629 at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (0nYcq)

90
Top Dem: Those aren't 'cancellation notices,' they're 'transitions'

Whew! Whatta relief!

Posted by: LIV #4679676A at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (5ikDv)

91 Da
BEARS get to visit the
Super Bowl
CHAMPIONS!!!!

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (MnSla)

92 Painful rectal itch Obamacare won't cover Painful rectal itch

Posted by: Hans Moleman at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (Ec6wH)

93 To call this clap-trap comedy is like calling Arsenio Hall a talk show host.
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Or calling Li'l Pissy Chrissy Matthews a journalist.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (Hx5uv)

94 FWIW Stewart had Sebiluous(sp?) on his show and essentially called her a liar once the interview was over. He also likened Obama to Gil from The Simpsons.

Posted by: HoboJerky, Hash Hunter at October 29, 2013 02:09 PM (E8IHS)

95 Da BEARS Super Bowl CHAMPIONS!!!! Geez, this thread is old...

Posted by: t-bird at October 29, 2013 02:10 PM (FcR7P)

96 Kate did very well with that skit, people were shocked there was even a modicum of criticism of the administration since they seem to think no one is allowed to discuss them, even in a comedy setting. So that, in and of itself, is what got people's attention.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 02:10 PM (Nx76m)

97 And slaamin' to the left we go! Wheeeeeee!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2013 02:10 PM (NKBxV)

98 BEARS get to visit the Super Bowl CHAMPIONS!!!! How sad they only get to visit the champions. Maybe one day they'll BE champions.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 29, 2013 02:11 PM (sByIH)

99 Elysium, Jon Stewart, SNL = Not watched

Posted by: P. Aaron at October 29, 2013 02:11 PM (uyEvB)

100 we've got our McCain on kids...left...left....left

Posted by: sven at October 29, 2013 02:11 PM (9jfyN)

101

They...."feel compelled to acknowledge some obvious truths." [from Ace]

Well yeah.

They're desperately trying to hang on to some semblance of being relevant...or credible.

Too late.

Posted by: wheatie at October 29, 2013 02:12 PM (uzPgI)

102 Tony Romo doesn't throw interceptions, he's just transitioning the ball to the other team's defense.

Posted by: kbdabear at October 29, 2013 02:12 PM (aTXUx)

103 I watched that skit, and was eager to laugh, but it wasn't even funny.

Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 02:13 PM (P6QsQ)

104 say, where's the hitler video?

-Insurances prices continue to rise.
-it will be all right, the ACA will let people keep their coverage if they like it.
-mein fuhrer... the people... they can't keep the insurance they liked... the ACA won't allow it...
...
PELOSI, REID, HOYER... LIARS!! I SHOULD HAVE HAD THEM ALL SHOT, LIKE STALIN!!!

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:13 PM (bJm7W)

105 Please!

Nobody Move!

Posted by: Hank Johnson at October 29, 2013 02:13 PM (5ikDv)

106 It is so obvious that the emperor is butt ass nekid that his court jesters are trying to pass it off with light humor. "Obama cares so much, that he can't be burdened with bad news. How can he run the greatest country on earth with the weight of the world on his shoulders? All that stuff we said about him being a messiah? He just plays one on TV -- Teleprompter Jesus. That's not racist at all when we say that."

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at October 29, 2013 02:14 PM (Y92Nd)

107 I'll probably get labeled a racist, but it seems like all black female comedians are the same character. They try to get their laughs by being sassy with wild hair and they aren't really all that funny.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 02:14 PM (IV4od)

108 Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 06:08 PM (Nx76m)

Huh?

It sucked.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 02:14 PM (oJ5Fd)

109 say, where's the hitler video? -Insurances prices continue to rise. -it will be all right, the ACA will let people keep their coverage if they like it. -mein fuhrer... the people... they can't keep the insurance they liked... the ACA won't allow it.. Steiner!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2013 02:15 PM (NKBxV)

110 OT: Nanzi Pelosi says she has the votes to pass amnesty. Don't panic yet. Nanzi is stupid and crazy so she may not know what she's talking about. Also, hopefully Boner will take the Hastert rule out of retirement.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:15 PM (Hx5uv)

111 hey, I checked youtube: No video results for Â“hitler +ppacaÂ”
No video results for Â“hitler +acaÂ”

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:15 PM (bJm7W)

112 I did NOT put all those spaces in!

If you like your spaces, you can keep them.

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:16 PM (bJm7W)

113 Don't think of it as sodomy, think of it as transitioning to fabulous.

Posted by: Prisoner #34832 at October 29, 2013 02:16 PM (SzAZ7)

114 I'll probably get labeled a racist, but it seems like all black female comedians are the same character. They try to get their laughs by being sassy with wild hair and they aren't really all that funny.
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Obviously they are not funny. They are a subset of female comedians.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:16 PM (Hx5uv)

115 It sucked.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:14 PM (oJ5Fd)

I watched it on some blog somewhere and yep, it sucked.

Where's a Bass-O-Matic when you need one.

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 02:17 PM (MnSla)

116 I'll probably get labeled a racist, but it seems like all black female comedians are the same character. They try to get their laughs by being sassy with wild hair and they aren't really all that funny.

****
I've never understood how the fuck Whoopi Goldberg ever drew a paycheck.

Posted by: B at October 29, 2013 02:17 PM (6iEQd)

117 The once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves.

Posted by: George Washington at October 29, 2013 02:17 PM (N/xZs)

118 PELOSI, REID, HOYER... LIARS!! I SHOULD HAVE HAD THEM ALL SHOT, LIKE STALIN!!! Stalin wasn't shot, he was (probably) poisoned.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b] at October 29, 2013 02:18 PM (sByIH)

119 *swishes tails and contemplates reflection in the still pool of mountain water*

Be amusing to turn the White House into the Great Bumpkin for Halloween.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 29, 2013 02:18 PM (12t4d)

120

I'm getting sick of hearing the word..."Glitch"...to cover up their fuckups and bad plans.

I'll bet they're getting sick of using that word too.

I wonder what word they will come up with next?

They're probably having meetings to come up with a new word.

Posted by: wheatie at October 29, 2013 02:18 PM (uzPgI)

121 The once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves.

Posted by: George Washington at October 29, 2013 06:17 PM (N/xZs)

------------

How about we just vote the suckers out?

Posted by: mama winger at October 29, 2013 02:18 PM (P6QsQ)

122 I've never understood how the fuck Whoopi Goldberg ever drew a paycheck.

Posted by: B at October 29, 2013 06:17 PM (6iEQd)

Not fair.

She was really good in Titanic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 02:18 PM (oJ5Fd)

123 I've never understood how the fuck Whoopi Goldberg ever drew a paycheck.

She aced the orals?

Posted by: Joethefatman™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 02:19 PM (MnSla)

124 The SNL skit was such veneer of the whole thing... focusing on the HHS director which I'd bet 99% of the SNL viewership has no idea who she is and what she's said. They poke fun at the inability to get a website going.. No criticism of the baffoon democrats that pushed national health care on the country, nor the JEF that made repeated lies about it.

The old SNL made fun of the bass-o-matic cause it was fun to poke at Ron Poppiel. (sp) They, as liberals, can't poke fun at lefty ideas of class warfare, carveouts for the connected and a slavish press corps. Yeah, real biting comedy.. they can't see it cause their bellies are full of the koolaid

Posted by: Yip at October 29, 2013 02:19 PM (/jHWN)

125 I did NOT put all those spaces in!

Posted by: mallfly

Notepad. Or what the f' it's called on the mac.

Posted by: Sheryl Crow [/i] [/b] at October 29, 2013 02:19 PM (xz0nG)

126 Obama's "if you like your plan you will keep your plan," has got to be worse the GHW Bush's, "read my lips no new taxes!"

Taxes go up and down fairly regularly but the sudden cancellation of millions of plans ought to outrage even the most committed of democrat partisans.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 29, 2013 02:19 PM (qH/2Y)

127 are there really more than a few female comics who are funny? I think the only two female comics who were regulars on the old Stern radio show were Joan Rivers and Judy Tenuta, and I don't remember Tenuta saying anything funny

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:19 PM (bJm7W)

128 Stalin wasn't shot, he was (probably) poisoned.
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Some say by Laurentiy Beria. If true, poetic justice. I just wish he'd suffered more.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:19 PM (Hx5uv)

129 We were told comedians aren't taking the piss out of Obama because there was nothing funny about him. Turns out there's just nothing funny about most comedians.

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at October 29, 2013 02:20 PM (6WVi+)

130 are there really more than a few female comics who are funny? I think the only two female comics who were regulars on the old Stern radio show were Joan Rivers and Judy Tenuta, and I don't remember Tenuta saying anything funny
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Carol Burnett.

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 29, 2013 02:20 PM (Hx5uv)

131 re 127: huh, didn't think it would matter. I denounce myself.

oooh, the heartburn, it burns

Posted by: mallfly at October 29, 2013 02:21 PM (bJm7W)

132 She aced the orals?

Posted by: JoethefatmanÂ™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 06:19 PM (MnSla)

An ex-girlfriend of mine worked on one of Whoopi's movies.

She was indeed banging the male lead.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 02:21 PM (oJ5Fd)

133 mallfly - Phyllis Diller
http://youtu.be/mH66_tFP8VA

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at October 29, 2013 02:21 PM (12t4d)

134 Nood up. All red & stompy!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 29, 2013 02:21 PM (NKBxV)

135 NCJ, thanks for the heads up on BF4/PC. Google chrome?? wtf?

Posted by: Yip at October 29, 2013 02:21 PM (/jHWN)

136 "In both cases I think it's pretty clear the comedians' hearts are not in it -- they still think there's nothing at all funny about Obama, but feel compelled to acknowledge some obvious truths."

They love them some Barry O, and they want him to be viewed as a successful President. In all likelihood, they probably were total Obamacare butt-lickers and are just devastated that this big government expansion has been a total clusterfuck. They know just how damaging humor can be, and any jokes made at Obama's expense and any ridicule and mocking of his administration will hurt his standing with the viewing public.

Normally I would feel a tad bad for them and think how it must suck to be them, being forced to hurt the one you love. BUT, as a nation, it sucks to be us right now. Because, Barry. And because, Democrats. So these "comdedians" can go screw themselves

Posted by: Captain Glenn Quagmire at October 29, 2013 02:21 PM (J4+Lm)

137 It matters not, I would still rather watch a road killed skunk rot than that drivel.

Posted by: maddogg at October 29, 2013 02:22 PM (xWW96)

138 I find Maria Bamford funny, and she even does a good black character. I think she gets away with it because it's so odd coming out of someone so white and because she's a chick.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 02:22 PM (IV4od)

139 @131

Did you see what happened to a rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask and made fun of him?

Posted by: Kreplach at October 29, 2013 02:22 PM (qH/2Y)

140 Mary Tyler Moore and Lucille Ball were good comediennes. Nowadays there are very few. Hey, Kate is better than Kristen Whig, she was terrible.

Posted by: just a citizen at October 29, 2013 02:23 PM (Nx76m)

141 >>>I've never understood how the fuck Whoopi Goldberg ever drew a paycheck.<<<

Picard was a sucker for 9-dimensional vagina and alien high balls, but mostly...

Posted by: Fritz at October 29, 2013 02:24 PM (TKFmG)

142 An ex-girlfriend of mine worked on one of Whoopi's movies.

She was indeed banging the male lead.
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I don't remember her starring in a movie with a blind guy...

Posted by: B at October 29, 2013 02:26 PM (6iEQd)

143 I watched the SNL sketch: Ace is spot on. As for Stewart, he's lazy and out of touch.

Posted by: mrp at October 29, 2013 02:29 PM (HjPtV)

144 An ex-girlfriend of mine worked on one of Whoopi's movies.

She was indeed banging the male lead.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 29, 2013 06:21 PM (oJ5Fd)

The male lead had to have a grudge against his dick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Div at October 29, 2013 02:31 PM (FMbng)

145 Ted Danson. Could have had any chick in Hollywood, and that was his choice. Yikes.

Posted by: lowandslow at October 29, 2013 02:34 PM (IV4od)

146

This stuff just sucks. Nothing too it. Just guff...

Oh for the day of the "Claudine Longet Invitational Skeet Shoot" and "Hit Al Hirt in the mouth with a brick contest" skits.

Now those were not only topical but dare I say it... humoous. (There... I did say it...)

Posted by: Odd at October 29, 2013 02:37 PM (kduZC)

147 What about the short thread? Or are you a heightist?

Posted by: JoethefatmanÂ™ (@joethefatman1) at October 29, 2013 06:01 PM (MnSla)

Sorry for the later response, no I'm as short as the next Italian mom no unintentional heightiness. My college sons were having a major meltdown over Battlefield 4 - yes , they bought it- and were trying to install it. I hadn't seen NCJ's post to warn them

Posted by: traumakitty at October 29, 2013 02:44 PM (30mGz)

148 The only two political skits from SNL that I ever thought were funny were the one where Reagan was a brilliant mastermind in Iran-Contra while putting up the old charm front. The other was the one about stupid reporters asking questions during the Gulf War in '91.

Posted by: Chris at October 29, 2013 02:45 PM (aBOfW)

149 They are who we thought they were.

Posted by: toby928© dispenses the stereotypes in service to the point at October 29, 2013 02:59 PM (QupBk)

150 Crap

Posted by: toby928© gets lost among the open tabs at October 29, 2013 03:00 PM (QupBk)

151 SNL hasn't been worth a shit since Farley & Hartman left. Over fifteen years.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at October 29, 2013 03:17 PM (S11Oq)

152

153

Farley AND Hartman

Posted by: Reggie1971 at October 29, 2013 03:18 PM (S11Oq)

153 SNL is still on the air? They must have as many viewers as MSNBC

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 29, 2013 03:33 PM (JivuR)

154 My plan got killed because I inadvertently voided its grandfathering by making a deductible change back in late 2010. That is what my insurance agent told me. I can renew it in late November for another year, and then it disappears and I am cast down with the sodomites. The agent told me that as of this date my only options will be an HMO through the exchange. So there goes the 'like your doctor' element too. The cost will go up from 950 to 1500 approx, as of this writing, but they throw that subsidy talk at you. I DON'T WANT A SUBSIDY. I PAY MY OWN BILLS, YOU BASTARD!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 29, 2013 03:45 PM (l3vZN)

155 Great, I just posted that tome on a dead thread.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 29, 2013 03:46 PM (l3vZN)

156 SNL and Stewart were able to poke fun but not mock, Valerie does not approve of mocking.

Posted by: Bufalobob at October 29, 2013 04:50 PM (r8ENS)

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