The Borowitz Report: Trump Will Lose His War on Laughter [View all]

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Link: https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-will-lose-his-war-on-laughter-ad2

When George W. Bush launched his War on Terror, I noted that it was the first time in history that someone had declared war on a human emotion. If Bush defeated terror, I wondered, what was next—shyness?

In his second term, Donald Trump has declared a War on Laughter, and I suspect it will be every bit as successful as Bush’s crusade.

Trump’s fear of being laughed at is nothing short of pathological. For years he’s been a crybaby about his portrayal on “Saturday Night Live.” And it was Barack Obama’s mockery of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner that reportedly impelled him to run for president. (Thanks, Obama.)

Like everything else rattling around in the commodious cavern of Trump’s brain, his fear of ridicule is unoriginal: he shares it with pretty much every dictator in the world. You might have noticed, for example, that there isn’t a thriving comedy scene in Pyongyang. The autocrats’ anxiety is entirely justified. Comedy is their kryptonite. They rule by intimidation, and when we laugh at them, their power to scare us evaporates. As Mark Twain wrote in The Mysterious Stranger, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

Which brings me to Stephen Colbert, who hosts his final “Late Show” tonight.

Last year, Colbert roasted the quislings at CBS’s parent company, Paramount, for donating $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a risible lawsuit he filed against them. Shari Redstone, who had become Paramount’s biggest shareholder thanks to the demise of her icky father, was desperate to keep the government from scuttling a merger that would make her even richer. In light of her greedy groveling, Colbert was justified in calling the payment a “big fat bribe.”

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I love Andy Borowitz, however today he's not so funny ... he's telling us the truth.

It's sad to me and millions of Americans that Stephen Colbert's Late Show will end tonight. But he will have the last laugh, and he will go out in style. Thank you Stephen Colbert!

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