Political Comedy or Absurdity?

I'm not a Grinch, really I'm not! I love a good comedian and a good laugh. The great ones can touch on subjects that would normally infuriate many and make everyone laugh just by pointing out some small absurdity within the situation. Comedy has been, and probably always will be, a running commentary on our society: good, bad, and downright hilarious that it may be.

But then there are idiots like Bill Mahr who HBO saw fit to give a show. Trouble with this man is that comedy in most part is supposed to be unbiased. If you want biased commentary, you listen to Fox News, MSNBC, or talk radio. Why is Bill on HBO rather than these other venues? Simply because he has no fucking clue what he is talking about in any real sense. Yeah, he gets some laughs from the crowd, but how much of that is the result of the stage "Applaud" and "Cheer" lights that any TV show uses during taping?

Now, I don't mean to say that EVERYTHING he does isn't funny. I do get laughs out of some of the stuff that he does, even when he is pointing out some of the more absurd things that either party does. But for the most part, painting all Republicans as "warmongers" and "oil tycoons" while portraying the Democrats as "peace loving humanitarians" who "have all the answers" just isn't historically correct. It is merely a play on words calling Iraq (at this stage at least) a "war" while our actions in Mogadishu was a "peace keeping" expidition. Folks, our young men and women in the military died in both places! It is just that for peace keeping you don't have to have Congressional approval or oversight.

But ok, I'll accept my oil fortune and the painting by Bill Mahr, just as long as it comes with permission to do my own, equally unfair, painting of Democrats as lazy welfare junkies with big mouths and no ideas (or even worse, a cable TV show!).