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The IHT relates this woefulness. Television comedy writers can't find anything to poke fun at Obama with.
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"The thing is, he's not buffoonish in any way," said Mike Barry, who
started writing political jokes for Johnny Carson's monologues in the
waning days of the Johnson administration and has lambasted every
presidential candidate since, most recently for Letterman. "He's not a
comical figure," Barry said.
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Jokes have been made about what Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton really
thought about Obama during the primaries, and about the vulgar comments
the Rev. Jesse Jackson made about him last week. But anything
approaching a joke about Obama himself has fallen flat.
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Then, deep into the article, comes this understated moment of DUH.
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There is no doubt, several representatives of the late-night shows
said, that so far their audiences (and at least some of the shows'
writers) seem to be favorably disposed toward Obama, to a degree that
perhaps leaves them more resistant to jokes about him than those about
most previous candidates.
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Call my agent comedy boys. I have a great collection of comedy
writers who will succeed where you fail ... because they're not members
of the freaking cult! Sheesh.
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