the last bastion of a failed entertainer
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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