Modified On August 13, 2012
“A tough time for comics with Obama as president?” is the question posed in the title of an AP article (another one!) by Frazier Moore. This one has quotes from the Leno, Ferguson, Maher and DL Hughley.
Only Hughley echoes our sentiments:
If you call yourself a comic, you can’t excuse the most powerful man in the world… He is the most powerful man on the face of the planet. He is The Man!
An entertainment writer from the Philadelphia Daily News called SHECKYmagazine last week, seeking quotes for a similar story. Our basic theme was that all this hand-wringing and fretting was unseemly and a violation of the unwritten law, popularized by Elayne Boosler in, of all places, a deodorant commercial from a few years back– “Never let ’em see you sweat.” We may be disinclined to joke about this or that, but we should never even consider letting the public know that we might actually be incapable of doing so.