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Nobody would benefit from four more years of Bush. Not even the GOP can afford four more years of his dishonest and corrupt rule over America. Right? Actually, there is one group of people in America who will be deeply saddened in January when Bush leaves office: the comedians in America.
Bill Maher’s show last Friday featured him asking people to vote for four more years of Bush so he could continue to have the best president a comedian could ask for.
Late night show hosts such as Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, David Letterman, etc. have all delighted in being able to come on for each show and give commentary on the deranged and ludicrous acts occurring daily in politics in America as a result of Bush.
What would South Park be if it had not had the chance to offer social and political commentary on the Bush administration and all the people who were “trying” to stop it or “deal with it”?
I like my late night television and I like my comedy. I know Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Lewis Black, Bill Maher, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, and more will be able to be funny without Bush, but will it be funny enough?
You might suggest that I just watch Bush speaking---that I take all the best quotes and cut them together to get hours of footage to keep me laughing uncontrollably. I don’t think it’s all him (even though I cannot keep a straight face when I see him on television anymore even when he is saying the most foul and corrupt things like lying about torture). The commentary is what completes everything and makes watching Bush doable.
That said, I wish to ask those who like comedy to vote Mike Huckabee in the primaries that still remain and in November.
He already has greatly enhanced Jon Stewart’s, Stephen Colbert’s, and Conan O’Brien’s show by creating a feud which led to all three appearing on each other’s shows. It was classic comedy that the writer’s strike had deprived me of (*no offense to the writers but it gets tough for Americans even though we support your cause; we just need our comedians to get us through life in America. I do.).
The guy who campaigns with Chuck Norris is most definitely the best guy to take over when Bush leaves---to become the next Dumbf**k-in-Chief. He will surely be a wreck for America, which will lead to great quotes and great incidents that will lead to hilarious coverage and commentary by America’s best comedians.
If we can’t have real change in November, that’s fine with me. I’ve given up on depending on any politician this year to end the war, restore the Constitution, keep this nation from becoming more corporatist or theocratic, fight global warming, help those in poverty, etc. I have not given up on the hope that I get four more years of award-winning comedy.
Barack Obama would destroy the Daily Show and Real Time with Bill Maher. Hillary Clinton might also (although she could make it hilarious too if it wasn’t for the fact that I think the shows would be labeled sexist for poking fun at her). That leaves us with McCain and Huckabee. However, McCain is admired by comedians for what he went through in his experience in the military. Even though his politics are often insane, I don’t see Grandpa Munster giving comedians enough material to work with especially after eight years of Bush.
Bush’s eight years in office, when broken down, really have been eight years of him playing the biggest and sickest joke on Americans. And we’ve somehow found a way to laugh at him even though we know he is playing us like fools.
I’m not ready to wise up though. America isn’t ready either.
Elect Huckabee. The future of comedy and late night television depends on it.
