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I don't fault the front page writers for writing about Donald Trump, or at least using him as a jumping off point for their articles. Anyone of those articles is pretty interesting and funny, by itself. SA's front page writers can always find a good angle for at least a few chuckles. And Trump's behavior is so outrageous that he seems to always be good for a laugh or two! The thing is, though, that Trump isn't really that interesting or funny? What more can comedy writers say about him that they didn't say in the summer of 2015? Or for that matter, that hadn't been said by 1989? Even in the 80s, he was a one-note joke about bad taste and ego. The fact that the joke has someone worked its way into the point of destabilizing the world and threatening American democracy doesn't mean there is too much more to say about it Donald Trump is like frosting: its certainly an attention getter, kind of fun for a while, but while a little bit is fun, eating it straight out of the can is monotonous. What can comedy writers do with Trump? What jokes can anyone make that haven't been made before?
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I think you can constantly and consistently make fun of him and his antics but at best it's very low-hanging fruit and it's being done to death by just about everyone.
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Dec 30, 2016 18:12
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You mean comedy writes are lazy, and love to pick the lowest hanging fruit for an easy paycheck? Well I never!
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Dec 30, 2016 18:40
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Noun Verber posted:You mean comedy writes are lazy, and love to pick the lowest hanging fruit for an easy paycheck? Well I never! Ladies be shopping!
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Dec 30, 2016 19:57
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There are plenty of things about Trump that are ripe for mockery. The problem is that so much "comedy" about him is narrowly focused on how self-evidently horrible he is, and it's all done with a wink and a nudge while they ask the underlying question, "Am I right, folks?" I put comedy in quotes because people like John Oliver and Samantha Bee are preaching to the choir first and making actual jokes second (although Bee is at least trying to be funny, instead of peppering her routine with pop culture references like Oliver). If, say, you make him an absurd caricature, or if you play up the dumb, stupid, and outright awful things he says to the point of comedic exaggeration, then that's more effective than trash like "Drumpf" or taking back the term "nasty woman." I thought Zach's article about Trump and prog rock was funny. Also, it may have a kernel of truth in it. After all, Genesis did make this music video back in 1986. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmH1xQ2Pf4
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Jan 2, 2017 06:42
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SAD! BAD! Fake news! Am I doing it right?
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Apr 7, 2017 22:28
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Noun Verber posted:You mean comedy writes are lazy, and love to pick the lowest hanging fruit for an easy paycheck? Well I never!
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Apr 15, 2017 10:04
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Noun Verber posted:You mean comedy writes are lazy, and love to pick the lowest hanging fruit for an easy paycheck? Well I never! I don't think comedy is the profession you go into for the pay check.
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Apr 18, 2017 10:44
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The people who get angry at Trump are the funny ones.
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Apr 20, 2017 17:44
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The people who elected Donald Trump to make people angry about his existence are unfunny.
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May 17, 2017 19:35
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This same kind of thing is going in the photoshop threads in GBS. There's always going to be new material, but at the same time it just stops being funny after a while. It's kind of difficult too because that's pretty much all the media talks about nowadays, to the point where it outshadows a lot of other material that would probably be in the public consciousness.
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May 19, 2017 08:42
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I guess u could say he's jumped the covfefe :iamafag:
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Jun 5, 2017 07:47
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whatta gabbagool
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were all gonna die lol
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