today's wsj's best of the web [bugmenot login] regarding the White House Correspondent Dinner finally spurs me to air what i had previously thought:
it appears comedians fall back to political comedy as a retreat from failed 'traditional' show biz careers. since the left is rather humorless, the bar of success is much lower
- al franken: never to be forgiven as perhaps the worst part in the otherwise classic trading places, the bomb stuart saves his family and failed tv series lateline prompted a retreat solely to the angry left angle.
- bill maher (who dubs himself libertarian): after show biz credits like dc cab and cannibal women in the avocado jungle of death (i've never seen them but how good could they be?), maher went the 'politically incorrect route
- similarly, keith olbermann after his fallout with espn, had several attempts at tv, while jon stewart had failed effort after failed effort (and i actually like his syndicated late nighter) before they found the cozy confines of leftist media
[note: i magnanimously absolve dennis miller--i'm nice, i know--since snl weekend update was his 'big break']
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