The Bittersweet Humor of Jimmy Kimmel
April 29th, 2012 - 10:18 am
Jimmy Kimmel at the White House correspondents’ dinner:
Best line: “Remember when the country rallied around you in hope for a better tomorrow? That was a good one.”
The joke we should pray comes true: “There’s a term for President Obama. Not two terms.” Ouch. And this is from Hollywood.
This would be an interesting read if the page (including the video clip) weren’t covered with ads. Just a thought.
Oh, my! The presidency has become reality television. If Obama is reelected, can we look forward to Lisa Lampanelli at the next Correspondents’ Dinner and jokes about making it with black guys? Such vulgarization does not bode well for our society and its political future. Dare one hope that a modicum of sobriety and decorum will return to the White House?
– miserable years ahead if Obama isn’t laughed out of office.
– Elite Princelings gather together and laugh at your expense.
I thought he did a fairly balanced job of skewering both sides. In addition to his two term line, I liked the line “in America, if you were a black man like Barack Obama, or a white man, like Barack Obama, or red, like Barack Obama’s agenda…”
Words are like bullets, you can’t take them back, they leave impressions, but I fear these are only empty words fired into the cotton-candy faces of the progressives.
Oops, may I retract my last thoughts, please ignore my hasty statement.
My bad, I used a violent metaphor and politically prohibited imagery to make an comic point, imagery to conjure suggestions too risky to say straight faced, a metaphor here, a metaphor there, suggestions about something we cannot talk about for fear of offending the protected sensitive idealists and innocent young. So we enjoy the mockery even if at our own expense because we have absorbed our own demise as farce.
I see a president clown with bitter malice who is absorbed in an insane play at our expense.
It is ” A rank confusion of the imagination”
One wonders if all the (mostly) liberal women in the crowd remember Kimmel in the most misogynistic show ever, The Man Show.
Thanks so much for the favorable mention Guy! I should mention though the Mere posting on the Agents website you mentioned is also a third party service and it is purchased from a licensed agent.