I gave up on US TV comedy after Barack Obama became President and the head of Saturday Night Live said that they had a hard time satirising the guy because he was so awesome:
“It’s like being a rock climber looking up at a thousand-foot-high face of solid obsidian, polished and oiled,” Downey says. “There’s not a single thing to grab onto — certainly not a flaw or hook that you can caricature.
Hang on a second while I vomit.
And it’s only got worse since then as they’ve held back from going after the most mockable President in decades, plus an even more mockable Vice President (The unbearable lightness of Kamala Harris), and all because they’re terrified of helping Bad Orange Man become President again.
However, as the fortunes of Biden decline some of the American comedic Left have apparently decided to go after him at least a little bit – adding comedy power to various sober Democrat MSM journalists who’ve begun to pressure Biden to quit. Not late night hosts like Stephen Colbert of course, who continues to be the supreme cock-holster of the Democrats, but the show which launched his career, the The Daily Show. But being a reliably Lefty show it still hasn’t exactly been an onslaught to match decades of attacks on Republicans.
So it is with a sense of amazement that I watched the following skit from The Daily Show, which has come close to dying since Jon Stewart retired years ago, and hasn’t been doing all that much better with his recent return. But the lady in this skit, Desi Lydic, is very good (see this bit on AI voices):
It’s a process I call speaking without thinking. It’s not about the destination of the thought, it’s about the journey and how many words you use to describe the journey.
The Democrat-MSM-Hollywood complex must be in real panic mode about Biden’s re-election if they’re willing to takedown Harris like this, and if the Democrats still think they can replace Biden with Harris after this going viral they need to drop more acid.
Comedy interests me, if only because I generally love it.
Seppo TV comedy has always been limited the very straight-laced WASP nature of so much of the Seppo public and so expanding on a theme has often been problematic.
The Poms, on the other hand, included a bit of school-boy-type banter in everything.
Some Seppo stuff started of really well (Night Court springs to mind, Automan could have been fantastic comedy – accidentally.) but unlike the Poms who quickly moved on the Seppo way was/is to take success and thrash the ring out of it.
Great stuff like MASH, Married With Children etc ended up pretty average where as the shorter lived stuff (Mork and Mindy etc) will still play well today. Personally I never found Sienfeld funny. Archie Bunker started preaching, which Alf Garnet never came close to.
Same with SNL. A chance to be funny spoilt.
Then add the current “everything-must-be-factual” anti-commedy of the woke brigade and genuinely funny men can’t come through.
There have, of course, been genuinely funny women. Gervais listed them on his last Netflix special.