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This was one of the most clever pieces I've read in a while.   From the LA Times - the same people who brought you "Barack the magic negro". 

 


 

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How to make fun of Obama

 Tips for those who find it too hard to joke about the Democratic candidate.  

Joel Stein
July 18, 2008
I believe comedic change is possible. Since the New Yorker dropped a bum joke on its cover this week, comedians have appeared on every news outlet to whine about how hard it is to make fun of Barack Obama. Really? They have an arsenal of jokes to use against a 71-year-old ex-POW cancer survivor and Obama is too touchy a subject?

I'm here to help. I called some comedian friends to compile a guide to making fun of Obama. The consensus is there's not yet one standout attribute to pound away on (McCain is old! Clinton cheats on his wife! Bush is stupid! Al Gore is a robot! John Kerry makes me feel inexplicably sad inside!), but there are areas to explore. If we just work a little harder, and sacrifice a little bit, we can achieve greatness. We are the immature jerks we have been waiting for.

 

  • Cover charges 
He's a nerd. Yes, he seems cool because he plays basketball and fist-bumps and knows about pop music. But that's because we're comparing him with other politicians, all of whom are older than our grandparents. Compare Obama with other 46-year-olds and he's Urkel. He's the kid at the Model United Nations conference who says, "Guys, guys, c'mon. Let's not make fun of Eastern Europe." And the brutal truth is, even if women faint at your rallies, you'll never feel cool inside when you have Alfred E. Neuman's ears.

He's ridiculously earnest. Obama is the kind of guy who not only talked you into showing up for Hands Across America but afterward insisted that it was awesome. On "Saturday Night Live," Fred Armisen plays up Obama's weird pauses and brow furrows like he's Yogi Bear getting bad news from a doctor. Comedian Marc Maron does a really smart bit about how Obama stares out into the distance while giving a speech. "The first time you see him you're like, 'What's he looking at?' But then you're like, 'I don't know, but it's good and full of hope. And he's the only one who can see it. If we vote for him, maybe he'll take us there.' "

He's black. Apparently, the differences between black people and white people can be funny. Trust, me I've seen this on HBO's "Def Comedy Jam."

When I called "Simpsons" writer Matt Selman for help on Obama jokes, he came up with this: "A lot of people are worried about Obama being assassinated because he's black. The solution to that is a much blacker vice president. I'm thinking Flavor Flav." Admittedly, Selman nervously said, "Don't make me look racist!" about 20 times before and after telling me his joke.

He's manorexic. No one loses weight on the campaign trail, when you're grabbing fast food and eating whatever is offered out of politeness, but this guy is always turning down doughnuts. It's like he signed up for running for president because he thought "president" was some kind of 10K race.

As comedian Aisha Tyler told me, "He has the build of an ex-high school javelin thrower. He's the guy on the track team who only does that one event, and he weighs the same as the javelin."

He's effete. He's well-dressed. He eats arugula -- which he buys at Whole Foods. He mocks those who use guns. He is, as we mentioned, quite thin. He may only be half-black, but he's three-quarters gay.

He called his own grandmother a racist. We all have racist grandmothers, but we don't brag about it to everyone. I like to imagine that his granny wasn't that bad and that Obama was just super-sensitive. Like she would tell him it was bedtime and he'd yell, "Oh, I have to go to bed because I'm black!" Or she'd tell him to clean up his room and he'd start yelling, "Oh, clean my room, huh? My people stopped obeying the white woman 100 years ago, Grammy!" Then they'd both laugh and she'd whip him.

His name is weird. The unfunny people beat us to the Osama/Obama bit, which really could have been mined. But Obama also dropped the "Barry" nickname in college. Do you remember those classmates who suddenly found their culture and had to share it with you like they were on the ninth step of AA? You just wanted to trudge through "Portrait of a Lady," but they felt compelled to sit you down in the dorm hallway and explain how they're no longer Susie, they're Mei Mei now. Then they recounted their whole journey of identity by using a lot of words that made it clear that Mei Mei was going to be a lot less fun than Susie was.

His platitudes need deconstruction. "We are the people we've been waiting for"? Actually, I'm pretty sure we're the people who put all our money in Yahoo and then bought a house to flip and now are hocking everything we have. We're the people China has been waiting for.
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GUNRIGHTS read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 12:57 PM

Awesome post TI!!

If Obama & McCain are in the same room at the same time saying the same thing, what do you have?

You can't say that, it's racist!

(Not really a joke, there's no punchline, I just made it up)

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 1:03 PM

HAHA! I thought the punchline was the bit about it being racist? Is agist a word? Because then it could be racist AND agist.

Stop clinging to your guns and your religion, fellow bigot!

GUNRIGHTS read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 1:16 PM

What? "Agist" took me a minute but I just figured it out, agist, love it.

Snickering as I cling to my guns & religion. I think I'll clean a loaded gun this afternoon, lookout!!

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 1:28 PM

UM, please don't clean a loaded weapon this afternoon anywhere near me! I just tend to clean an EMPTY gun while rocking violently and chanting Psalm 23:4. Hair in a bun, may it please MM, barefoot, and pregnant.

GUNRIGHTS read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 1:44 PM

You're funny TI!!!
And you know I'd never clean a loaded gun, that's only for people who want to 'accidently' shoot family members!!

p00frog read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 2:22 PM

Thanks, I literally laughed out loud at the racist grandma one.

p00frog read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 2:26 PM

Oops.

Mischief_Managed read my blog
Jul 18, 2008 | 3:08 PM

Wow, P00! So great to see you around.

TI, add in a butter churn, and that's exactly how I picture you.

LOL@manorexic.

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 3:17 PM

hard to churn butter while cleaning a gun... unless I did it with my toes...

Mischief_Managed read my blog
Jul 18, 2008 | 3:20 PM

Now THAT would be impressive.

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 3:26 PM

I'm telling you - I could be prarie woman TO THE MAX!

scottythecomic read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 4:24 PM

TI, I may have to cast you as an extra "Prarie Woman" in my upcoming comedy western.

Chuck_U_Farley read my blog
Jul 18, 2008 | 4:27 PM

Every time I see him with his head cocked up I wonder BLEEP is he looking at. Now I get it. He wants everyone to see how well he trims his snobbish nose hairs.

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 18, 2008 | 4:29 PM

haha snob joke 4tw!

scotty - I will cease bathing IMMEDIATELY!

cyrusmartin read my blog view my photos
Jul 19, 2008 | 2:01 AM

This is exactly what Republicans have been looking for to win over all those independents they need so badly. Please keep posting these sorts of things. It's very important. Everyone that is not already educated as to what you are all about really needs to understand the kind of things you find informative and humorous. I just want to say that these are precisely the kind of down to Earth jokes that Middle America has been waiting to hear. Please share and share often. Thanks!
Funny guy...

-Cy

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 19, 2008 | 6:31 AM

Sarcasm again is noted. However, Joel Stein is as liberal as they come. I just keep pointing out that all the "racism" is coming from the left, not from the right. I have yet to see a conservative writer degrade his race, yet we continuously are accused of it.

cyrusmartin read my blog view my photos
Jul 19, 2008 | 11:58 AM

I will say this...

Ugliness has come from both Liberals and Conservatives. This is not a justification for acting like a child. The way we carry ourselves in public does matter and the way we conduct ourselves regarding elections does too. Why is it ok to degrade one another and make fake pictures that slander a person just because it involves someone running for a public office? Why are we ok with that? I dont think this is how we want to teach our children to hold future elections either and I really really so think that we can do better.

chardoney read my blog view my photos
Jul 19, 2008 | 12:47 PM

"degrating" or making fun of politicians has been fair banter since we first had elections. What ODD, is how super sensitive the little Obama family is. He's offended by everything said, done, thought, pictured or imagined. Makes him look the fool.

And it's interesting that the same ppl whining about how mean Republicans are to Obama never say a word to all the mocking and lies said about Bush. lol

Bamer is a hypersensitive, boring, metrosexual, empty suite male who needs 300 ADVISORS FOR FOREIGN POLICY. What a joke... at least Hilly knows how to look at a map.

TexanInfidel read my blog view my photos
Jul 19, 2008 | 12:58 PM

Good call. They can call Bush a chimp, McCain an old man, but they just ignore it. You know who else gets all upset about fun being made? Muslims. I'm not saying he's a muslim, I'm just sayin'.

chardoney read my blog view my photos
Jul 19, 2008 | 3:27 PM

Rush said it first. heheh The muslim thing... we can't make up of muslim, ya know. They have no sense of humor and will kill you. Just say'n.

Vile 'jokes' are made about Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove... and no Dem ever minds. But let their ox get gored and they FLY INTO A RAGE.

tough

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