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What is it like to have politics influence every thing you watch? I don't watch any late night talk show but I've also never watched any comedian/movie/tv show that wasn't political in nature and then be pissed bc it presented a political view I didn't agree with.

fricking this.

I prefer Letterman to Leno because he's funnier and I watch the Daily Show because it's funny. The idea that I could be so put off by someone else's pov that it would bother me as much as it bothers some of you seems so off to me.

All of this. And comedians have been making political jokes way before most of this board was born.

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Posted by RealityTiger

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Posted on 9/19/12 at 9:49 am to VOR

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comedians have been making political jokes way before most of this board was born.

True, but the way it used to be was making fun of politics, period. Regardless of political affiliation.

Making fun of Reagan, Bush, Sr, and Bill Clinton was funny because it wasn't with an agenda. Today's political humor has an agenda behind it - to pump up party affiliation in an obvious manner. That completely takes the humor out of it.

It's like listening to a comic trying to pull off a joke but you can tell he has personal feelings attached - and the humor is lost at that point because it just becomes awkward. That's how I feel about David Letterman.

And he wasn't always that way. His whole schtick which made him famous was that he was an immature bachelor from the midwest that did goofy things and didn't care, still talked to his mom, etc.

This post was edited on 9/19/12 at 9:59 am

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