They Made A Funny

by digby

This is so exciting! The producer of that fab torture fest “24” has created a new comedy show and it’s hilarious. Just listen to the wildly enthusiastic “laughter” if you don’t believe me:

I think Joel Surnow has kind of missed the mark, though. While I, a cowardly, flip-flopping liberal loser might find this “fake news” concept amusing, surely the codpiece-grabbing, testosterone-overdosed REAL MEN of the right need something .. more.

How about some witty waterboarding of teenage Muslim boys or a hilarous look at a shark feeding frenzy? And they are really missing the boat if they don’t include some of these. Should it be difficult to find them, they could always commission some Minutemen to shoot some Mexicans or put some firecrackers inside frogs and light ’em up like George W. Bush used to do when he was a kid. A good lynching is always cause for a chuckle.

They think they will succeed by apeing the left but they are being very short sighted. The right has a “differnt kinda humor.” Just ask their president:

While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. “Did you meet with any of them?” I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. “No, I didn’t meet with any of them,” he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. “I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like, ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?'”

“What was her answer?” I wonder.

“Please,” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “don’t kill me.”

Now that’s funny..

So’s this:

That lameass schoolboy “BO” stuff won’t cut it with the manly men and women of the right. They need RED MEAT!

C’mon, Surnow, you can do better than this.

Update: It has been argued in the comments that Surnow’s little Obama fest is a racist grand slam, and that’s true. All that’s missing are some subliminal cuts of cannibals with bones in their noses to drive the point home. But I still maintain that it isn’t real rightwing humor. There has to be violence and/or humiliation to really call forth a wingnut belly laugh.

H/T to Attytood
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