[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I'm so [font face="Arial"]<chuckle>[font face="Verdana"] terribly sorry [font face="Arial"]<guffaw>[font face="Verdana"] that another new attempt at "conservative humor" [font face="Arial"]<snort>[font face="Verdana"] has bombed....

I have to say he does an adequate job poking fun of the stupid on "America's Dumbest.....", working along side of co-commenters Tonya Harding, Todd Bridges, and Danny Bonaduce. In the comedic spectrum of the regular commenters Mr. Loftus is falls somewhere between Gary Busey and Dustin Diamond.

Would not want to be in between those two.........not exactly a glowing endorsement.

Standing between them naked for example.

Left myself open for that one. Not a pretty picture!

A criminal albeit without a conviction, a criminal with one and someone I once admired but unfortunately became a jerk? What, Victoria Jackson wasn't available?

They specialize in smoldering wrecks.

What's with the thick glasses and graying sideburns? Is masquerading as a tubby, crew-cut, middle aged (he's 49) "regular guy" supposed to be part of the joke?


rocktivity

Mostly I heard a lot of half-baked ideas, nothing fully formed, no evidence. Or maybe he was half-baked.



Thank you! I'll be here all week.

...and really, this tends to be true for conservatives in all forms of art, is that they spend too much time trying to show-horn their political views in, and not enough time on actually crafting their artform.

Too many conservatives seem to only laugh raucously when humor is used for the purpose of belittling and hurting others, especially when it contains misogynistic or racist content. Sorry if that comes out sounding like a generalization, but it's a perception I've developed from watching some of the crude comments and postings they put on their social media and FB pages. This guy was just pontificating, not not really parodying, which is the biggest humor tool that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report utilize.

Seriously, did anyone associated with this project (audience included) believe that this was:

1) Funny
2) Engaging
3) Worth watching
4) Anything but utterly doomed?

I can remember better executed sketches from my Junior High School Talent show, and most of the audience walk out on that.

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if Loftus had followed it up with the suggestion that all libertarians be sent there since their Galts' Gulch project worked so well. But wouldn't a city on the moon be yet another big-spending boondoggle that republicans are supposed to be against -- speaking of which, are republicans against libertarians this week?


rocktivity

Some of his advice to Republicans was ok, like stop being hypocrites and why the bad hair. And the statement that Bush and co blew up the deficit is true. But the assertion that Obama did worse economically just isn't borne out by the fact that the deficit is shrinking and he didn't even attempt to prove it. So that was disingenuous. The Reagan worship was predictably shallow - Yay! We invaded Grenada! I don't know why but we did it and they won't forget it! And overall the preening egotism seemed more glaring than with a typical comic. So no, I think Stewart and Colbert have nothing to fear.

One funny joke -- about the matching shoes. The rest of it was light Reagan worship, light liberal bashing, and comedy that fell flat. I actually feel bad for the audience that expected to hear something funny, even if they were a bunch of Republicans.

be a conservative Jon Stewart.