Modified On December 12, 2005
Mark Gauvreau Judge, writing in Spectator.org, compares his recent viewing of “Margaret Cho: Assassin” to Robert Klein’s special and the book upon which it was based.
Klein, who has a new HBO special (his 8th) coming up, is no conservative, but he’s a vanished breed: the common sense liberal. His recent memoir “The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue” proves this. While in his early 20s he dated a German woman, and describes one night in the late 1960s where his leftist pals were touting the glories of socialism in front of her. Klein was proud as she demurred: “I felt a certain pride as she charmed them and parried their ideology at the same time. It so happened that she lived in a country that was divided by electronic fences and machine guns. These middle-class City College Trotskyites seemed oblivious to the pragmatic side of the issue, the fact that this woman risked death to visit relatives in the eastern sector of her country.”
It kicks off with a devastating indictment of Cho’s methods and segues into an analysis of what might or might not make for satisfying political humor. Read the rest here.