Just as 9/11 killed comedy, apparently so will the Obama administration. The NY Times interviewed
a bunch of comedy writers on how they planned to cope with the apparent upcoming comedy drought. (Full disclosure: I would totally watch Letterman do household safety demonstrations.) I particularly liked the point made by an
Onion editor:
Too many people had one Bush-is-dumb joke and thought that made them the next Mark Twain. The arrival of a president fluent in English should raise the bar.
Although, to be fair, there was an awful lot of mileage from the Bush malapropisms:
(Three more days!)
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