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- Obama Campaign Hurting Late Night Comedians
  Posted by Jeff from International Herald Tribune
  "There has been little humor about Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race. ... "We're carrion birds," said Stewart, "We're sitting up there saying 'Does he seem weak? Is he dehydrated yet? Let's attack.' ... So far, our take is that he's positioning himself to be on a coin." Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Obama than other late-night hosts because "my character on the show doesn't like him. I'm expected to be hostile to him." Maher, who is host of a politically oriented late-night show on HBO, said, "If you can't do irony on the cover of The New Yorker, where can you do it?"
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- George Carlin: Comedian George Carlin Dead
  Posted by okami from Feeds.gawker
  Stand-up comedian George Carlin, whose routine about forbidden words on the airwaves led to a key Supreme Court decision on government broadcast oversight, died of heart failure near Los Angeles. He was 71.
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- My Top 5 Funny Films of All-time
  Posted by cloudystef
  So I'm trying to gravitate towards the lighter side of things. Work is producing more and more backlogs, thanks to the concept of fate and a little of procrastination.
  
  I need a good, hearty laugh. Nothing seems to be funny as of late and I don't know about you, but I liked Will Ferrell's stuff so much more in the past. I guess I'm not a fan of his hairy chest as the time that he didn't have to take his shirt of to be exceptionally funny. Much respect to the guy, though. I just needed to remind myself of the films that I thought made me laugh the hardest. Say Molly Shannon and conversation is over.
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- HuffingtonPost Launches Onion Knock Off Site
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  236.com launches as faux-news comedy site. Huh? Yeah, seems like a s-t-r-e-t-c-h to me too.
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- Conrad Black turns to comedy
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The pompous greed-head might be facing decades in jail, he might be barred from returning to the country of his birth, but convicted crook Conrad Black has shown he has an extraordinary ability to poke fun at himself, even appearing on television to do it.
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- Does Sarah Silverman Suck?
  Posted by Damianmann
  Is she funny or raunchy? Genuinely mean, or just commenting on American ignorance?
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- Dave Chappelle pulls all-nighter at Factory
  Posted by Jeff from Variety
  "It was just one of those nights," Masada said of Chappelle's appearance. "He had everyone laughing for six hours." Indeed, Masada said only about a dozen of the 150-plus original members of the audience left the club before Chappelle wrapped his set. "The audience was with him 100 percent," he said.
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seimaden4 comments on:
Obama Campaign Hurting Late Night Comedians

I didn’t really say anything that needs to be "backed up" but I will say that freelancer has candidate envy and I think he watches too much Fox News.

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6:45 am 7/16/08
Jeff comments on:
Obama Campaign Hurting Late Night Comedians

Freelancer67 – rated your comment thoughtless. Care to back up your statement?

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10:35 pm 7/15/08
seimaden4 comments on:
Obama Campaign Hurting Late Night Comedians

gosh, i just loved this story. i smiled all the way through. it’s strange that the funniest people in television can’t seem to find anything to make fun of this candidate. That is definitely a good thing for Obama, that basically means he is actually a candidate who is not a complete idiot or old, crusty and senile like mclame. You know, also, Obama is not an easy name to make fun of.

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10:23 pm 7/15/08
Jeff comments on:
Obama Campaign Hurting Late Night Comedians

See also New Yorker Cover Shows Muslim, Flag-Burning, Osama-Loving Obama and Is the New Yorker’s Muslim Obama cover incendiary or satire?

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3:00 pm 7/15/08

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