! ! Andy is the only funny liberal on the planet. I agree. There's something that just falls flat when certain liberal comedians (esp. Franken and Maher) attempt humor, where Andy is funny all the time, even when skewering Bush, which is most of the time. George Carlin, another lefty whose humor I usually admire, was funnier back when he was less overtly political and not so angry at the world. The same could be said of Dennis Miller (i.e., he was funnier before he "came out of the closet" politically speaking).
I delight in reading Borowitz's daily emails, even though he's gotten a bit formulaic in his "shocker" series. But he does know how to capitalize on irony at somebody's expense, which is the comedian's job long before it's ever to make some profound political statement or another. Here's another classic from a couple days ago: ------------------------ MIDEAST CRISIS THREATENS BUSH'S VACATION August Ranch Stay in Jeopardy, President Says The widening crisis in the Middle East took on graver proportions today when President George W. Bush indicated that if the hostilities continue they could threaten his traditional August vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch. At a press briefing at the White House, the president said that if Hezbollah continued their rocket attacks on Israel, he would see those attacks as "an assault on my vacation itself." "Throughout the civilized world, my summer vacation has been considered sacrosanct," Mr. Bush told reporters. "The time has come for Hezbollah to recognize my vacation's right to exist." If Mr. Bush seemed testier than usual at the White House briefing, perhaps it was because he has recently suspected that there is a global conspiracy to spoil his downtime, starting with North Korean President Kim Jong-Il's decision to launch six test missiles on the 4th of July. "No one wrecks my vacations," Mr. Bush said with steely resolve. "Not on my watch." While the President has been concerned about the escalating crisis in the Middle East, he has reportedly been even more troubled by the situation on his ranch, where clumps of brush have been growing out of control all summer. Mr. Bush has set a firm August 1 deadline for returning to his ranch to deal with the brush, and he said today that he expects Hezbollah to abide by that deadline. "If August 1 comes and goes and I am not clearing that brush, Hezbollah will have hell to pay," Mr. Bush said. Elsewhere, actress Pamela Anderson and singer Kid Rock have announced plans to marry, according to the Centers for Disease Control. -------------------------------------- That last paragraph caused me to ruin a perfectly fine keyboard when I read it (I had been merely chuckling to the rest of the text up to that point). :) - Bob ! ! --- Bob Calco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ! ! > www.borowitzreport.com ! > ! > ! ANGELINA JOLIE, BONO SIGN MIDEAST PEACE ACCORD ! > ! ! > ! ! > ! Israel, Hezbollah Not Consulted ! > ! ! > ! ! > ! Hopes for a lasting peace in the Middle East were ! > raised ! > ! today when a comprehensive Mideast peace accord ! > was signed by ! > ! Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and Bono, the ! > lead singer of ! > ! the rock band U2. ! > ! ! > ! Just hours after Secretary of State Condoleezza ! > Rice made a ! > ! surprise visit to Beirut to confer with Lebanese ! > officials, ! > ! Dr. Rice found that her efforts were largely ! > upstaged by the ! > ! high-wattage amateur diplomacy of the two global ! > superstars. ! > ! ! > ! "When I saw the conflict in the Middle East ! > spiraling out of ! > ! control, I recognized that there were only two ! > parties who ! > ! could sit down at a negotiating table and bring ! > peace to the ! > ! region," Ms. Jolie told reporters today at a press ! > conference ! > ! in Jerusalem. "And those two parties were me and ! > Bono." ! > ! ! > ! After reaching out to Bono to make her historic ! > offer of a ! > ! lasting peace, Ms. Jolie dropped off her infant ! > child Shiloh ! > ! Jolie-Pitt with a babysitter in Namibia and jetted ! > for the ! > ! Middle East. ! > ! ! > ! But even as Ms. Jolie and Bono signed their ! > landmark Mideast ! > ! peace accord, representatives from both Israel and ! > Hezbollah ! > ! complained that neither of them had been consulted ! > "at all" ! > ! about the terms of the agreement. ! > ! ! > ! "That's true, we did not consult them," Ms. Jolie ! > told ! > ! reporters. "We thought long and hard about it, ! > and Bono and ! > ! I came to the conclusion that Israel and Hezbollah ! > would only ! > ! screw things up." ! > ! ! > ! Elsewhere, hospitalized due to his hunger strike, ! > former ! > ! Iraqi president Saddam Hussein demanded that ! > doctors remove ! > ! his feeding tube because it was interfering with ! > his ability ! > ! to make incoherent anti-American outbursts. ! > ! ! > ! ! > ! www.borowitzreport.com ! > ! ! > ! Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend: ! > ! ! > ! http://mcsv.net/cgi-bin/redir?MCid=paChkBlZ32dPsHo33KbY&email= ! > ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]&rec=6547 ! > ! ! > ! ! > ! 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