'Red, White And Screwed'

[im10ashus]

Katrina vanden Heuvel

If you haven't been living on Mars these last years, you know Lewis Black as the caustic, bile-spewing, savagely funny stand-up comic, actor and Daily Show commentator. He's the one with the manic moves of a Joe Cocker who's spent too much time obsessing about our politics.

I love Black's obsessions and his style which, according to a Wikipedia entry, "is that of a man who, dealing with the absurdities of life and politics, is approaching his personal limits of sanity."

His Saturday night HBO special, "Red, White and Screwed" was full of rage and cursing--I counted 46 "fucks"-- and some of his best routines.

"This last year has been the toughest time I've spent as a comedian. Can't keep up with all this shit. Who can keep track. I don't even have a ports of Dubai joke and we're on to immigration. You tell me how we're going to catch eleven million people... How we're going to build a wall thousands of miles long and we couldn't build levees in New Orleans."

cont'd...

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[thereismore]

1. "I know what a neocon is. Someone who watches 'The Matrix' and

believes it's real."

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

2. "How are they going to deport 11 million people?

They couldn't evacuate 100 thousand in New Orleans and they were all standing in one place and waving."

It's true. You can't keep up.

[im10ashus]

3. He's asking the questions that our politicians should be asking.

I hope this is On Demand on HBO so I can catch it.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

6. I relate to Lewis Black. That choking sound is the noise

sanity makes just before it jumps off a cliff.

lol

:hi:

[Bake]

4. I'm sure he'll be flamed shortly

He took some devastating shots at the Dems too: "John Kerry??? Is that the best the Democrats could do???? Couldn't come up with anybody that could beat George Bush???"

Or, "In 2008, I hope both the Democrats and the Republicans just sit it out."

The thing is, he makes an excellent point. Politics is no longer funny. Things are so screwed up that it's just not funny anymore. It's not funny to make jokes about the Katrina reponse because it was so damn tragic. Iraq jokes aren't funny, because it's so damn tragic. Bush is such a disgrace that it's no longer funny.

Bake

[Bake]

5. His stuff about Reagan and a dead president was good!

Nobody would f**k with us if we had a dead president!

Bake

[MazeRat7]

7. I love LB... Mrs MazeRat says we have a lot in common...

I'm not sure if that is a good thing, but basically its because of my getting pissed at the insanity and ranting a lot about it while trying not to loose my own... :) She also thinks I act a lot like George Carlin, but that is another story... (how does she put up with me ?) Hummmmm....

Anyway, I watched the special and thought it was a hoot. The part about putting a dead president in the WH was priceless...

MZr7