SNL, Letterman, no sign of Obama

After 9/11, there was this ominous feeling of something missing. There were no planes in the sky. It is was strange that, no matter when you looked, you did not see a plane, you did not hear that background hum, you did not see trails. Nothing. Part of the woodwork was gone.

Now I am reminded of this by another ominous lacking, Obama jokes. SNL, Today, Leno, Letterman, not one joke that disparages Obama, ... ever. Disparaging jokes about candidates are part of every campaign season. Biden's hair plugs, Gore's boringness, Clinton's lecherous appetite, Hillary's cold demeanor, any given Republican's stupidity, bigotry, evilness or all of the above, have all been fodder for the yucksters. Sarah Palin owes her entire inviability as a future candidate to SNL. McCain was depicted as a doddering, senile idiot. Bush is frequently depicted as childish, unable to read and the like. All of this is fair game, and should be. But, while Obama had to wear a poncho to keep the drool of the fawning press from staining his clothes, how is he exempt from late night skewerings that every other candidate has had to endure, during and after the campaign? It is scary silence. Obviously, not every joke has to be disparaging to be funny, but there needs to be some humor vetting somewhere for the man who malaproped his way through 57 states, who did not know what his preacher was saying for 20 years, who invented an award for Farrakhan to replace the trophy given to him by Obama's church, who was declared the Messiah by said crazy man, who did not know about Ayers or ACORN, and who "overstated" or "mispoke" numerous times in totally reversing his early naive positions into viable campaign points. Come on people, Obama is too solemn a character to be funny? (To be fair, there have been a few Messiah jokes, but nothing truly disparaging as the other candidates got.)

Truly Biden is a laugh a minute, from patriotic taxation, to giving millions to Iran to combat terrorism, to praising Obama as clean and articulate, to electing FDR early and putting him on television, to swearing they had never given any money to ACORN (well it was only a million dollars, who can keep track?). Is there a comedian who can find anything to say?