Political Comedy Videos Are Not Just For SNL & Why Aren't There Any Pro-McCain Parodies?

Funny!  But I have worked very hard to get my family NOT to send me links to that stuff!

YES WE CANDY! --Come trick-or-treat with Sarah and John at the GOP Mansion!

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OM! I love these clips and links and I needed the laugh, Megan.  The first one is just super silly with the holiday phone call.  I really cracked up. The Irish song is also a hoot, that's O'bama. Bet it's fun to sing with a group too. Actually, I liked all the embedded videos.

I have one on my personal blog that is about McCain giving the VP potentials he rejected the let down.  I've also been keeping up with the SNL stuff.

I had an unexpected laugh recently, however, not watching a political satire video but an online game classifed as political satire, PalinAsPresident. Partisan, for sure, but still fresh.

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Oh, they do try! But almost invariably, they fall flat as my mom's attempts at explaining Bushonomics, even though she majored in economics. It's not necessarily lack of talent, but, I think, taking themselves too damned seriously...AND hating liberals too much to laugh at them or anyone else.

Being too serious and mad all the time, as well as the renowned lack of sex among Republicans compared to Democrats makes them, well...wet blankets and Grumpy Gus's (that's how Joe the Plumber came off: a curmudgeon, which makes a lousy mascot, by the way).

McCain is the Grumpiest of ALL curmudgeons, with his whining, snarling, finger pointing. He's just NO FUN! Barack isn't a barrel of laughs, exactly, but you feel like you could sit back over a nice dinner with him and have a few chuckles, as well as a spirited debate without being insulted. He also SMILES without looking like he's constipated!

Palin was brought in, not for her expertise, but her "down-homey-ness" (not to be confused with "homie-ness"!), and they hoped, a few cunning, folksy jokes. They were thinking Garrison Keillor and instead got that annoying neighbor who's always yelling at her kids and giving out fake smiles (and winks!).

Her latest attempt at "humor" that I caught was in Ohio, I think, when she salivated over Joe the fake Plumber as he did his cow-plop-dodging sideswaddle (coached no doubt--he's normall stiff as a board when walking!) toward her onstage. 

"Here he Iii--zzz!" She drooled, "Wearing his Carhartt's (work pants) and work boots--he's MY kinda guy!" The result was not humor, but nausea. WHY does she feel obliged to keep hinting at sex? Does she feel that, as a woman, she must, or was she told, "YOU'RE the next Ann Coulter!". If so, that was some BAD advice! Coulter's "about as funny as a gut full of pinworms" (Ted Kazerinsky in the film "Neighbors") and looks like a bony, old, bad-tempered horse with its hair dyed blonde.

So now, my husband (who likes Carhartts) is annoyed, NOT laughing and I'm groaning, because NOTHING is worse than someone trying that desperately to be funny and/or sex and failing horribly!

Inflexibility, one of the hallmarks of being Conservative...by definition, is NOT conducive to humor, at all! So, just keep watching the Colbert Report and PRETEND he really is conservative. 

I actually liked your idea of having Republicans hire unemployed Dems for jokes. The problem would be, they'd also have to get other Dems to deliver said jokes! I think we can call the GOP the Grumpy, Old-Man Party. No, that wasn't funny...which is JUST why they'd like it! On "Main Street", it would "play", I bet.