Johnny Carson playing a befuddled Ronald Reagan

[madokie]

http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/8124/Johnny_Carson_As_Ronald_Reagan/#.UUSLExw9-So

What a talent

[monmouth3]

1. That was hilarious..n/t

[msanthrope]

2. That was 1982...before the 'diagnosis.' nt

[malaise]

3. He was born on November 24th

One of the real funny men

[madokie]

4. My wifes birthday

[malaise]

8. Happy Birthday

Mrs Madokie

[spanone]

5. reagan was never that sharp.

[we can do it]

6. OMG funny!

[Go Vols]

7. Excellent

[JHB]

9. Hu's on first?

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. One of my favorites was this SNL sketch

[eggplant]

12. Damn, I got distracted and you beat me to posting this. ;-) n/t

[truebluegreen]

11. Some things are so important, and have had such dire consequences,

that they cannot be made funny.*

That said, if the situation were different, that skit would have been a gut-buster.





*I remember trying to watch the movie "Being There" when it first came out, and walking out of the theater (to be fair, I was living overseas at the time so was more sensitive to My Government/Country/Culture being mocked).

[eggplant]

13. I disagree.

As soon as one loses their sense of humor, they become easy to manipulate. Success in confrontation requires humor.

[truebluegreen]

15. I disagree.

Long term health and serenity may require humor, but success in confrontation does not. It requires bedrock certainty and an accompanying lack of fear--the latter being something conservatives overwhelmingly lack imo.

I find things to laugh uproariously at every day, but Saint Ronnie of the Raygun is not one of them.

[eggplant]

16. I lived through him too.

I got to sign up for Selective Service when he was in office. When he and Maggie were a hair's breath from blowing us all to kingdom come.

I take it as a testament to our sense of humor that no matter how much damage he did to this place, we're putting it back together again, and he's dead. So there, Ronnie. Pthbbbbt.

If that's not something to laugh about, then I don't know what is.

[truebluegreen]

17. I hope you are right about putting the place back together

but I am older than you and I feel time slipping away....good luck to us all.

[rurallib]

14. truly a gut-buster

[treestar]

18. lol

good Reagan imitation.