Comedy Dilemma: Obama's Flaws 'Not so Obvious'

By Scott Marin from Patriot Room

There was a time when it was considered poor taste for comedians to attack a current President of the United States, but that day ended with SNL and Richard Nixon. The world has since flipped, and now people worry when the comedians are not ripping the President.

Thus far, most comedians are having difficulty targeting President-Elect Obama.

The reason is simple; most comedians are liberals. They just don't see anything worthy of mockery in him. Case in point, this loon, who actually gets paid to "direct talent" for Comedy Central.

Comedy Central Director of Talent JoAnn Grigioni says she sympathizes with comics who haven't yet found Obama's soft spots...
''I think people who may be having a hard time skewering Obama are experiencing that because right now his flaws, those that would be comedy fodder, are not so obvious,'' Grigioni said.

This is ridiculous at face value. People whose business is to know who and what is funny are able to see the humor in anything. The only time they are unable to do so is when what might be funny to a lot of people is actually deeply offensive to themselves.

Why don't we help Grigioni and her comics out? Here are just a few of Obama's rather obvious flaws and/or things that would be good fodder for comedians to mock him:

- He can't speak without a teleprompter
- He can't seem to kick his smoking habit (I sympathize with him here)
- One-third of his friends are terrorists
- His supporters think he is God
- He spent all of his time in the Senate running for President
- One-third of his friends are corrupt politicians
- Um, Reverend Wright? 20 years? Couldn't be anything funny in there, could there?
- Any and all jokes that could be made at the expense of any other generic liberal
- He has no real-world accomplishments
- One-third of his friends are corrupt businessmen
- True or not, his wife can easily be characterized as an America-hater based on her own words
- The whole Chicago political scene is a goldmine for any comedian who bothers to look

That was off the top of my head in 90 seconds. Feel free to add to the list. Comedians all across the country need our help.

Meanwhile, Ms. Grigioni needs professional help.