Sunday, March 8, 2009

25 Things Obama Does Instead of Watching the Stock Market

Big Hollywood is one place you can find some Barack Obama humor.

For example, Ernie Mannix offers an amusing list of things Obama does instead of watching the tanking stock market.

Some choice ones:

8. Hums an annoying tune and shakes his head, to avoid thinking about the surge’s success.

10. Enters Oval Office and does some bitchin’ karate moves.

17. Meets with Steve Jobs about the new mobile invisible 'iPrompter.'

18. Freaks out White House tourists by yelling at them: 'How the Hell did you get in here?!'

19. Freaks out Biden by yelling at him: 'How the Hell did you get in here?!'

21. Calls Oprah and asks how his military salute looks.

24. Asks Biden: 'What ever happened to Code Pink?'

25. Meets with hypnotist to help him quit smoking and to stop saying 'ummm' and 'uhhhh'.

See?

It's possible to do Obama jokes.

Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood contributor, has sent a letter to Lorne Michaels offering his writing services.

Excerpt from Crowder's actual letter to Michaels:

I not only love your show, but I love the principal of a weekly program centered around irreverence. You folks are the jesters making fun of the king, and that’s something that a free country desperately needs. The problem is, that I don’t see much jesting anymore. You folks over at Rainbow Studio seem all too eager to get in on the “kissing of the ring” action. What’s up with that?

I would hate to see your show render itself irrelevant due to a completely one-sided cast/writing staff being totally ill-equipped to deal with the most lopsided government in American History. Don’t get me wrong, I know that it’s not entirely your fault. Being in the NBC/TV “Bubble” must make it hard to find a dissenting viewpoint. You’re surrounded by “yes men” who think of many Americans as nothing more than “people from the fly-over states”. Contrary to popular belief in NYC, there are plenty of people out there who are unhappy with this administration. If I had to put a number on it, I’d guess about 46%.

Half of the country tunes in weekly, waiting for you to take the irreverent pot-shots at the current administration that we’ve come to know and love throughout the Bush era, only to be disappointed.

I don’t know whether you find it “unpatriotic” to make fun of the current Administration, or if you honestly feel that you haven’t enough ammo. I would find the latter hard to believe considering that the country’s VP is JOE FREAKING BIDEN. The man is an absolute goldmine of material. He’s the comedic gift that keeps on giving.

However, if you folks don’t have at least one honest to God conservative on your writing staff, who is able to offer an authentically cynical view of the current Presidency, I would like to formally suggest that you do so. The quality of your show may depend on it.

Being a young Comedian who’s toured and written professionally for years, I would like to formally offer my services. Now I’m totally aware that someone over at NBC may pull the “Norm Macdonald card” on me (”You’re just not funny”), and may very well be right in doing so, which is why I have compiled a list of other thought-provoking, right-of-center comedians available upon request.

It's not enough to do jokes about Hillary, Rahm Emanuel, and the tax cheats Obama tapped for positions in his administration.

It's Obama time.

Last week, Rush Limbaugh was the comedy punching bag. No one dared to lay a glove on Obama.

This lack of Obama jokes is creepy. It's un-American.

Is this what TV is like in Venezuela?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

"bitchen karate moves" You just made my whole week :) Couple of cute funnies in here too http://beema.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/beemanews_09mar09/

Anonymous said...

Petition Obama to read Economics for Dummies. It's shorter than the stimulus bill.

We are sending a copy to Obama and Geithner.

http://somabus.com/economics-for-obama/