Caucus Update: "Funny Business" edition
Nov. 25th, 2011 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Determining what makes someone laugh can be hard.
Holiday-themed partisan jokes about candidates generally aren't very funny, regardless of party.
Making jokes that no one knows who the guy onstage endorsing you for President can be funny. It isn't funny if the people in the crowd actually don't know who the guy is (In this case, Romney endorsee- Senator from South Dakota John Thune- loved by the beltway insiders, but 80% of Iowa Republicans have never actually heard of the guy).
The fact that Newt Gingrich's ring tone is "Dancing Queen" isn't intentionally funny, but it is in fact, funny. (The fact that Mitt Romney's theme song is Alabama's "Born Country" is more odd than funny.
If you're Jimmy Fallon's band, and you play "Lyin' Ass Bitch" before Michele Bachmann, that may or may not be funny, but it is certainly inappropriate.
Kal's cartoons for the Guardian are funny, and he has one of the more memorable ones so far.
Of course, the best mix of politics and humor so far may be Mighty God King's political Magic cards (which a tip from sigma7 led me to).
Check out four pages of genius from here.
Holiday-themed partisan jokes about candidates generally aren't very funny, regardless of party.
Making jokes that no one knows who the guy onstage endorsing you for President can be funny. It isn't funny if the people in the crowd actually don't know who the guy is (In this case, Romney endorsee- Senator from South Dakota John Thune- loved by the beltway insiders, but 80% of Iowa Republicans have never actually heard of the guy).
The fact that Newt Gingrich's ring tone is "Dancing Queen" isn't intentionally funny, but it is in fact, funny. (The fact that Mitt Romney's theme song is Alabama's "Born Country" is more odd than funny.
If you're Jimmy Fallon's band, and you play "Lyin' Ass Bitch" before Michele Bachmann, that may or may not be funny, but it is certainly inappropriate.
Kal's cartoons for the Guardian are funny, and he has one of the more memorable ones so far.
Of course, the best mix of politics and humor so far may be Mighty God King's political Magic cards (which a tip from sigma7 led me to).
Check out four pages of genius from here.
