Humor is in the Eye of the Beholder
Last night watching the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner I think I hurt myself laughing so hard. President Obama of course was spot on, but comedian Wanda Sykes just took it to another level and made my sides hurt. My favorite was, “I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just strung out on OxyContin and missed his flight.”
What I found most informative about our out of touch news pundits was that there was Pat Buchanan and Sherry Babitch on MSNBC giving us “insightful insight”. I am not sure we need commentary for humor, but what do I know. Then they commented that while they thought President Obama was quite entertaining, they thought Wanda was over the top. Here are two older white Americans who obviously don’t spend much time on YouTube. Young Americans have less tolerance of hypocrisy than the older white generation and love to call it out and laugh at it. Don’t these people know what Stephen Colbert and John Stewart have wrought? It reminded me of my younger days flying combat in Viet Nam. We would always speak truth to power because what were they going to do with us as we had very little to lose. It is so refreshing that we can now say what all of us are thinking. Thank you Wanda. My guess is that you are going to be famous in web video land.