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[Lazarus Long]

OK I am normally politically, oops I mean humor impaired. I have problems finding things funny. Irony usually works but it takes a lot of subtlety, but slap stick usually makes me feel guilty at feeling some dark sense of schadenfreude and sexist, racist, and ethnic humor often will start a brawl.

Anyway I have noticed that perhaps all too many people have gotten infected by my condition of late and that perhaps we all need a little perspective. So please feel free to include some humorous examples of your own and as long as they meet my stringent guidelines of not crossing the line of racism etc they will stay. Anyway I will start with a few example of my own.


Wait Wait don't tell me (Listen)
Saturday Night Live (go to news and politics)

Jon Stewart the Daily Show

Colbert report

Anyway if you have to sit there and ponder the fate of the world while typing away at the computer you can at least run a few of these in the background and bring a little secret glee to your fear of Armageddon. Think Slim Pickens.

OK, if you really want to get sad again here is the real political archive of so much commentary and debates that you will swiftly return the fantasy land of SNL, Jon Stewart and others or you may just find like Alice that you emerge through the tunnel to the other side and see through the veil of the madness to the real core of humor that lies inside all the seriousness of politics.

Online Video of Election '08

[sthira]

[Lazarus Long]

Is it real or is it photoshop?

I don't know but do they really drink Schlitz in Alaska?

Anyway I want to be careful with such photo commentary but try to present caricature as just that, a caricature. Be careful with photoshop because it can much more easily cross the line to slander. I will be watching out for this and was tempted to remove this one as a start but there is nothing inherently offensive nor misrepresent of what I have heard Palin herself defend. So even if this one is photoshop I'll leave it but I will do the same for caricatures of Obama that are consistent with his own stands.

However I might pull any from either side that outright lie or present a candidate in a potential violation of the sexist/racist issue. Please try and find things that are more intellectually stimulating and avoid the cheap shots and certainly outright pornographic stuff.

In general Sthira you get the idea and also I think it is time for everyone to remember to laugh a little in the face of what frightens some of us in the dark and what angers us in the light of day. In fact hostilities have been running high here of late and I am looking form things we can all laugh at including perhaps even more so in ourselves and not just what we think about the *other* side.


BTW I am curious, is it photoshop or an example of invasion of privacy?

[maxwatt]

It's photoshop. The original is HERE.
The shadows are at different angles on the face than on the arms, among other things.

Edited by maxwatt, 12 October 2008 - 07:16 PM.

[Zenob]

It's photoshop. The original is HERE.
The shadows are at different angles on the face than on the arms, among other things.

I LOVE that one.

[eternaltraveler]

i find watching people "debate" here for their favorite political team with almost religious devotion pretty amusing.

[RighteousReason]

LL, kinda sad I own you in our debate and instead of responding you escape into humor.

But to the point, yeah the humor is great, when it isn't polluted by the insane left-wing talking points (which it is most of the time).

[Lazarus Long]

There you go forgetting the rules again you little savage. This is about humor and you are even more humor impaired than I am. Contribute a joke or just read but no more debating here. This is a debate free zone.

Everybody has been taking things way too seriously and this was needed for a little healthy perspective. I will return to other threads for you to play so you will be happy but here the play is with humor, not humorlessly. So tell a political joke, put up a comic presentation, picture or cartoon, or just get laughed at.

[RighteousReason]

Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s.

Ahh... good ole' Georgia. My home state.

Haha.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's last name is spelled "Osama" on some 300 absentee ballots mailed out this week to voters in Rensselaer County hilltowns.

Eighteen years ago, Rashin Soodmand's father was hanged in Iran for converting to Christianity. Now her brother is in a Mashad jail, and expects to be executed under new religious laws brought in this summer.

Isn't politics hilarious!

(Associated Press) A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared ...


(Deadline Hollywood) Paramount's top execs missed last night's South Park episode viciously spoofing Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for "raping" Indiana Jones ...


For all this and more, visit the leader in political humor, MichaelSavage.com

[Lazarus Long]

I am afraid you need remedial help with humor savage, none of this is particularly funny and it is sad because you don't get it. You need to see some of the irony and humor in your own obsessions and then maybe when you can laugh at how funny you are then you will learn to appreciate the humor in other situations. You realize that when you can't laugh at yourself you make others laugh at you even more.

I realize you are not trying to be funny but the really difficult part is that you also don't know how to be funny and that is the tragic side of comedy. Come on give it another try. Look for something that makes you *honestly* laugh about politics and share it. Look for something that let's you see the humorous side of your own point of view as well as that of others.

On the upside I did think the man in Cambodia was silly in his obsessive behavior too when I read that story the other day but do you really think it has anything to do with politics?

However I did laugh when I heard about the Osama thing earlier today but it was more of hehe than a hahahaha.

And we already have the South Park episode available whole here at Imminst for a while now so can't you come up with anything new and really funny?

[Iam Empathy]

[RighteousReason]

TownHall.com

Edited by Savage, 13 October 2008 - 01:40 PM.

[Lazarus Long]

There you go. That's the idea I knew you could do it.

[Zenob]

Graphical aid for making your voting decision this November.

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[maxwatt]

A sign seen in Florida

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[Lazarus Long]

The Adventures of John McCain and the Straight Talk Express

100 Years of Iraquitude

Through the strength of sheer anger, John McCain fulfills his campaign promise to live for a hundred years, so he can see the Iraq war through ‘til the end.

[inawe]

Is he laughing at us?

[inawe]

[Iam Empathy]

http://www.flickr.co...ser/2939110809/

Someone stole our Obama for President sign from our yard last night. They stole nearly all the Obama signs in our neighborhood. The ones they didn't take they spray-painted black. So I made this sign today and staked it in the yard. I fully expect it to be trashed by morning. At least they know the result of their pranks: we give more money to Obama's campaign.

Read related journal entry here: lost-angel.livejournal.com/225155.html

Edited by Iam Empathy, 15 October 2008 - 02:35 AM.

[Iam Empathy]

McCain / Palin Supporters:

[Iam Empathy]

[Iam Empathy]

Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner
Added: October 16, 2008

[.fonclea.]

LOOK HERE

Edited by .fonclea., 17 October 2008 - 10:33 AM.

[RighteousReason]

Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner
Added: October 16, 2006

This guy is just evil.

[Iam Empathy]

Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner
Added: October 16, 2006

This guy is just evil.

Apparently Savage has no clue what a "roast" is, lol. That's funny! I'm not surprised though.

Here is McCain's roast of Obama as well:

[RighteousReason]

Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner
Added: October 16, 2006

This guy is just evil.

Apparently Savage has no clue what a "roast" is, lol. That's funny! I'm not surprised though.

Here is McCain's roast of Obama as well:

McCain was light hearted and a lot kinder, and I was falling out of my chair because he was so funny.

Obama's jokes were harsh and vile and he just seemed bitter. He hardly even smiled.

Edited by Savage, 17 October 2008 - 08:33 PM.

[RighteousReason]

Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner
Added: October 16, 2006

This guy is just evil.

Apparently Savage has no clue what a "roast" is, lol. That's funny! I'm not surprised though.

Here is McCain's roast of Obama as well:

McCain was light hearted and a lot kinder, and I was falling out of my chair because he was so funny.

Obama's jokes were harsh and vile and he just seemed bitter. He hardly even smiled.

Not to mention his usual arrogance and condescension

[RighteousReason]

Seriously, McCain was so much funnier: