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Funnyman Jackie Mason pops up with Ben Harvey and Dave Rubin on this week’s Ben & Dave’s Six Pack, and in a fantastic public service, explains why comedians won’t go after a certain sitting president: “They just happen to love Obama. They don’t feel like telling any jokes about him. They’re uncomfortable making fun of him, and they think that no one wants to hear it. People want to hear it…Why can’t you make fun of a person without being ugly? They used to be ugly with their jokes about Bush — ‘he’s retarded, he’s an idiot, he’s a moron.’ They couldn’t tell a clever joke about him. They had to do something always devastating and ugly, but that’s because they just happen personally to hate Bush. But they love this man so they decide that any joke about him is tasteless. They’re so awed by [Obama’s] presence. They’re so thrilled that a black person became president that they feel they have to protect him. They’re proving to themselves that they’re not racist. If you make a joke about Barack Obama, they will call you a racist, and that makes them feel like a great humanitarian civil rights crusader.”
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SteamPunk
I know lots of you hate this guy, but the comedian I see go after President Obama the most is… Jay Leno 🙂
Synnerman
Didn’t Jackie Mason create a row this time last year calling Obama a “Schwartza” in is act?
Oh well.
The Artist
It must be me, cuz I find this show annoying! Ugh! And Jackie Mason?! Okay I’m all about spreading the luv, but Jackie Mason?!!! Isn’t he like a century old! It’s time for the New Power Generation. PEACELUVNBWILD! Oh and Obama is BRILLIANT!
delurker again
Never got or cared for his borscht belt ‘humor.’ Mason needed to put out to pasture like yesterday.
JIMMY
they wont talk about him cause of the liberal hate that would follow. dissing obama is the worse thing you could do. it’s soooooo un-PC.. now fall in line with the adolf, er i mean obama
Jonathan
Jackie Mason spent the better part of the 90’s making jokes about people with AIDS. A few years ago he fired an opening act at least in part because the stand up in question was Palestinian. And then there’s the already mentioned tendency to litter his act with racial epithets. At this point, he has all the ethical authority of the Catholic Church. I don’t think I’ll be taking my cues on fairness or even comedy from this trash. A shanda fur die goy.
The Artist
@JIMMY: Your not spreading the word of PEACE-N-LUV! Y so much disdain for Mr. Obama. B a part of the solution, not the problem! U know The New Power Generation!
terrwill
@The Artist: How much happy juice you drink each day?? : p
terrwill
“They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it’s some kind of federal program.” —George W. Bush
“nuff said…………..
james_cambridge
@terrwill: Well done sir!!
AxelDC
People don’t make fun of Obama because they haven’t found any obvious foibles to go after. LBJ was crude, Nixon was a crook, Ford was clumsy, Carter was overly pious and folksy, Reagan was old and forgetful, Bush was out of touch, Clinton was overweight and a womanizer, Bush was just too dumb to be President and let Cheney/Rove run everything. How do you sum up Obama in a witty way?
Satire only works because people were already laughing about it. Obama can’t be satirized because they haven’t found any obvious jokes that people already relate to.
mk
Jackie Mason is a republican as you can tell from these ridiculous comments.
He’s not recognizing that comedians did tell plenty of clever jokes about Bush and there have jokes about Obama from comedians including Jon Stewart and Bill Maher even though Obama has never given comedians the kind of ammunition Bush did.
The Bush jokes weren’t a personal response to him as a guy. They were a response to his policies, ignorance, irresponsibility and corrupt administration. Obama’s administration isn’t starting a new war for trumped up reasons, providing new tax cuts for the minority of very richest people in an already financially polarized society, exposing a CIA agent in retaliation for her husband providing an honest report about the lack of basis for war, firing federal attorneys for not showing enough being personally loyalty to the president, and all the many other things Bush and his administration did to earn rightful criticism.