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10. Maybe H.L. Mencken...

Reply to 63splitwindow (Original post)

Fri Jun 12, 2015, 08:04 PM

Jun 2015

...but he was, of course, a very long time ago. Though he sometimes called himself a "conservative", and notoriously lost it towards the end about FDR and the New Deal, he was really *sui generis*, like all the great originals. He had more in common with Mark Twain or George Carlin, than any of them had/have with party-line ideologues of any stripe. And he was, in his prime, very, very funny...

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One of the great things about the left... [View all] 63splitwindow Jun 2015 OP

No such thing as a funny con. The only time they are funny is when they are randys1 Jun 2015 #1

P.J. O'Rourke is about as good as it gets. KamaAina Jun 2015 #2

Michael O'Donoghue had no respect for O'Rourke. Described his work as 'derivative'. blm Jun 2015 #4

Not that I can think of shenmue Jun 2015 #3

Conservative "humor" isn't funny The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2015 #5

The powerful making fun of the powerless just isn't funny, and that's where it starts and ends DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2015 #6

Bill Murray: The thing about Michael that was interesting….. blm Jun 2015 #8

Proper humor makes fun of people who are equals or are higher up the foodchain than yourself NightWatcher Jun 2015 #7

I think that... 63splitwindow Jun 2015 #9

Maybe H.L. Mencken... First Speaker Jun 2015 #10

It's about the truth. ZX86 Jun 2015 #11