It's funny you should say that because Dennis Miller was exactly who I was thinking of. And it's not like people just refuse to find him funny anymore, it's that he genuinely isn't. I think probably because to be funny you need to be the one commenting on the truth. If you're going to say, completely without irony, that Abraham Lincoln was one of the most criticized presidents in history, and so that probably means Bush is another Abraham Lincoln...you're not the comedian, you're the joke.
Or like on the show when Harry tries to defend herself about the gay marriage thing she pulls out the stock conservative defense of "You don't get it because you live on Mulholland Drive, but in other places marriage matters." Only instead of being a snappy comeback it's actually just a pathetic slur on people on the coast yet again: you hippies on Mulholland Drive who want to destroy marriage even though you're arguing that your friends should be allowed to do it! She seems incapable of spotting the funny, so she's always got a big target on herself.
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Date: 2006-11-14 05:15 pm (UTC)Or like on the show when Harry tries to defend herself about the gay marriage thing she pulls out the stock conservative defense of "You don't get it because you live on Mulholland Drive, but in other places marriage matters." Only instead of being a snappy comeback it's actually just a pathetic slur on people on the coast yet again: you hippies on Mulholland Drive who want to destroy marriage even though you're arguing that your friends should be allowed to do it! She seems incapable of spotting the funny, so she's always got a big target on herself.