Drew
and Mimi Are the Same Person.
What made the "Irish Drinking Song" and
"Hoe-Down" segments of "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?"
so enjoyable was that it was so obviously despised
by the comics. They hated it because it takes an
absurdly nimble mind to accomplish the task of building
a
song on the fly and also, hopefully, making it funny. It's
a skill very few are capable of on a professional
level.
WLIIA cast-member Colin Mochrie (mockery?) was no
doubt beloved by the crew but occasionally, and intentionally,
they'd toss
him a rhyme
using any number of words rhyming with "duck". When
it happened you could see the momentary shift of
his eyes stage left
as he said to himself "You bastards" before magically
extricating himself with an hilarious non sequitur.
I
love those moments.
Thank you, Youtube.
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Do you know why comedy is the opposite of politics?
It's because there's truth in comedy.
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When the Republican side of the House lost Louie
Gohmert you'd have thought its average IQ could only
have risen.
Nope.
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At the moment, House Republicans inability
to choose a speaker is a ridiculous spectacle but
if this goes on for weeks or months, which is conceivable
considering a group of the biggest
GOP troublemakers are calling themselves the "Taliban
19, the function of government in this country will
grind
to a standstill.
Especially if they decide to hold
the debt limit hostage, then the whole world's goose
is cooked.
The goal for these Republican
neo-Congressmen's intent to make a mockery of governance
is not yet clear, though it may be that they're just
morons, elected by other morons. We can only hope
that's all it is.
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After Damar Hamlin went down from an ill-timed blow
to his sternum his NFL masters considered continuing
the
game.
I mean,
it's not like Damar was kneeling and demanding equal
protection under the law. To the owners of the NFL,
that's the really serious stuff. No, this was just
another on-field injury. Just rub some dirt on the
old ticker and get back out there, soldier.
Then the blow-back started and they 'magnanimously'
decided to postpone the game.
But you can't blame the NFL for being heartless about
Hamlin's situation because, well, they ARE heartless.
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I posted my
previous cartoon, concerning bad guys with
guns vs. good guys with guns, on Reddit and it did
very well, reaching the #1 spot in the /r/politicalhumor
sub-reddit. But it also received a lot of criticism,
as expected, as it's clear from the many comments defending
gun ownership that anyone who owns a gun feels they're
totally incapable of error or common human emotions.
The point
of
the
'comic'
was that humans can't be trusted, especially those
with weapons of war, under any circumstances.
Then today a story appeared out of Enoch, Utah of a
family of eight, including five children, who were
found dead in their home as a result of gun shots.
Authorities haven't
reported
as
much
but
there's little doubt in my mind that a murder-suicide
will be the reason for the deaths. (See?
Told ya.)
Deaths that would never have occurred if there was
no gun
in the
house.
Yeah, but what does a cartoonist know?
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Quoth the Colin Mochrie: "Meow!"
=Lefty=
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