Is mocking Donald no longer funny?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by tw

...what is the 'purpose' of The Donald?

[DanaC]

You know - a couple of days before you posted this thread - well a few times really over the past couple of weeks - I was thinking about Colbert's monologues recently.

I have found most of them funny, but I also think that, underneath the more lighthearted, or childish elements (drawing dicks on the board and pokes about little hands) there's a real darkness to this humour.

[Happy Monkey]

I think that's to be expected. He's far more a Letterman than a Leno.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's necessary...

[Griff]

Here's a surprise, as completely unwatchable as I find his monologue right now, his Nielsen Ratings put him at number 1 for late night. I guess if Trump is messing with your sleep pattern maybe you do get catharsis from Colbert?

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...t-ratings.html

As far as the darkness of the humor goes, there is real anger there but I can't decipher if the rage is that of a Democratic team player who can't Clinton or a patriot who is actually concerned about our institutions and people? I hope its the latter. I guess his bubble is under assault. My bubble took another hit yesterday when the Post reported that Eric Prince (evil incarnate) may be the Trump Putin go between and someone close to me spent his morning on a Clinton rant right out of Trumps tweets. Folks are doubling down on protecting their bubbles. Shit gonna pop.

[henry quirk]

"Shit gonna pop."

I wish it would...the U.S. could use a nice, clarifying, civil war right now.

Instead, it's gonna be the same old, same old.


As for mocking the prez (or congress, or the supremes, or govs, or...): meh...if you got the time and interest, sure...kinda just singin' to yourself in the shower, though.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

I wish it would...the U.S. could use a nice, clarifying, civil war right now.

Wars. Zombie Apocalypses. Epidemics.

Everyone always assumes they are going to be among the survivors. Odds are, you'll catch a bullet in a civil war, Henry. Or more likely, starve.

[henry quirk]

Moot.

As I say: it's gonna be same old, same old

[tw]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

...the U.S. could use a nice, clarifying, civil right war now.

Figures the right would want to start another war. Even among themselves. So extreme that even a right wing propaganda tool, Fox News, is at war with itself - its president and on screen personalities.

War is good. It even made George Jr popular. And the Chinese rich.

[DanaC]

I think Louis said it best:

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Griff

As far as the darkness of the humor goes, there is real anger there but I can't decipher if the rage is that of a Democratic team player who can't Clinton or a patriot who is actually concerned about our institutions and people? I hope its the latter. I guess his bubble is under assault. My bubble took another hit yesterday when the Post reported that Eric Prince (evil incarnate) may be the Trump Putin go between and someone close to me spent his morning on a Clinton rant right out of Trumps tweets. Folks are doubling down on protecting their bubbles. Shit gonna pop.

I get the distinct impression, given the focus of the humour, and the times when Colbert's anger is most apparent (you can kind of see a glint of it in his eyes at times) that it is the latter.

The way I see it, whoever is in the top job is going to mocked. The tenor and tone of that mockery depends on a couple of factors: which side won is one of them - a liberal or left leaning comedian may feel more anger at the policies and approach of a right leaning or right wing president and is also likely to have felt a sense of loss or disappointment when their preferred candidate lost.

But the other factor is how well or badly that president is doing in office, and that transcends the party political to a degree. The anger that seems to be coming through with Trump reminds me a little of the anger that came through with George W. during times when much of the country was feeling lied to and at times when it seemed the president himself was being led by his team. But even then, with the Daily Show, and even later with Colbert, much of the focus was on how all that was covered by Fox, and much of the humour was based on the machinations of Bush's cabal, with occasional swipes at his dumb hick persona.

With Trump and his administration the focus is on rank incompetence at almost all levels, a total and utter disregard for the truth and the absolute lack of respect shown by Trump for the office he now occupies.

[Clodfobble]

Little known fact, Colbert is actually a conservative. A pretty moderate one, but he's talked in interviews about some pretty fiscally conservative stuff. He's genuinely refused to do bits mocking the Pope before.

[xoxoxoBruce]

He's a Sunday school teacher.

[henry quirk]

The ten year (re)taught me a valuable lesson last night, that being, one doesn't have to be a dick to hold, assert, and defend a view.

More so than many, I can be a real dick.

My apologies to all I've been dickish to (which, I guess, is pretty much anyone and everyone reading this).

I can be a hard pill to swallow in the best of circumstances, when I'm tryin' to be nice, so, when I'm not tryin', well...as I say, my apologies to any and all.

[BigV]

Hi henry.

Kids are an everlasting source of surprise, are they not?