is Laura Bush off limits when it comes to comedy ?

[JI7]

i admit i don't really watch the late night comedy shows. but i do hear the jokes, especially political ones repeated. it seems to me they don't hold back when it comes to someone like Hillary, Teresa and most other Dem/liberal women.

but i don't think they ever made a joke about Laura. this even goes for ones obviously Dem like Jon Stewart.

why do you think this is ? i know the media whore part of it, but why do people like Letterman and Stewart who don't care much for Bush hold back when it comes to Laura Bush ?

[SoCalDem]

1. Laura has preferred a low profile, so I think they cut her some slack

It's a right wing thing to attack women and children, so i doubt that "our" political humorists would stoop as low as republicans do..

[EFerrari]

3. Comedy writers don't attack people. We make people

laugh.

[JI7]

4. but it's not about attacking women, and they joke about Hillary and Teresa

remember all the jokes about Kerry and the rich wives.even if it was aimed more at Kerry they still brought Teresa into it.

but i don't see them using Laura even in that way.

also i'm also talking about people like Letterman and Stewart who don't like Bush.

[EFerrari]

6. In order to be in a joke or bit, you have to interest someone --

either the writer or, potentially, the audience.

Laura just doesn't interest that many people. She could. We've used her but in a limited way.

And, it's not at all personal. If we sat down and said, "Let's nail that Stepford wife today!" the actual comedy, the funny, dies.

/typin'

[951-Riverside]

7. I noticed that too they NEVER mention her

[SoCalDem]

8. teresa & Hilary put themselves ":out there"

Laura has deliberately portrayed herself as the dutiful wife, content to walk in the shadow of "her man".. There's not much humorous about her..

[JI7]

9. but Laura did campaign for the Chimp and give speeches and hold

her own events.

i understand it may be different with Hillary once she decided to run for Senate. but even before that we saw a lot of crap.

and what did Teresa do to put herself out there any more than Laura ? as i said Laura campaigned and gave speeches just as Teresa did.

[SoCalDem]

11. Teresa was outspoken..Laura holds back and smiles that goofy smile

waggles her crooky fingered hands, and disappears into the background. Hillary got a high profile (thanks to BC) right off the bat, and since the repubes were already stalking the Clintons, she was "fair game".. (see also V. Plame)..

Humiliating and criticizing women and children of elected officials is a republican thing to do.
also. teresa has been a well-known philanthorpist for decades and was a very public figure already..she has also been waging a "war" with Mellon-scaife for a while now..

[KitchenWitch]

2. Maybe it is because it would be like beating up the school nerd

You know, the one who always had his/her lunch money stolen?

[WernhamHogg]

5. With one exception

I haven't seen a lot of Laura Bush jokes, but I do remember that speech she gave a few months back (can't remember where) in which she claimed that George tried to "milk a horse".

:rofl:

The Daily Show had some fun with that. However, that joke wrote itself. I also think it's difficult for comedians to come up with Laura Bush jokes...afterall, why would you waste good material on her when the politicians in the Republican party keep the comedians busy by supplying them with an ample amount of material everytime they open their mouths. ;-)

[EFerrari]

10. "A Librarian and an idiot walk into a bar . ."

You're right! There's too much low hanging fruit. Laura just isn't at the top of the list. She's not off limits, she's just not the first 50 things that come to mind.

[DarkTirade]

12. That's because she's frikkin' boring.

Not even fun to make fun of.

[The Sushi Bandit]

13. Laura is a COW

without udders...

not funny

if you make fun of her she will pray to god that you die.

Not nice

[Captain Hilts]

24. Not a fair comment. Sexist too. She's boring. nt

[Chipper Chat]

14. Personally, I prefer the other "Laura bush"

"OHHHHHH ROBBBBBBB"

[Chipper Chat]

15. dup/delete

[cornermouse]

16. Laura is a nonentity and a disappointment.

I prefer a First Lady with a spine and who isn't useless. You get the sense with Laura that she's either counting the silverware or shopping. Its sort of like they stuff her into a closet in the White House until they get in trouble. Then you see her; sort of a last ditch measure.

[bigbrother05]

17. There was a show on Comedy Central

called thats my Bush. it was pretty funny, but very raunchy.
Made fun of Laura all the time.
Nothing but a truck stop whore
White trailer trash
One show was about cleaning her vagina, had to travel all over the
world to get it clean.
Now we know why.

[mopaul]

18. she's too creepy to be an object of humor

she's either an clone or an android or highly medicated. her overall demeanor is one of deep creepiness.

[Lost4words]

19. I dont think she is funny, really kinda sad, spoiled kids,

the most dispicable husband in the world, and then that mother in law.

Its like she has everything and nothing at the same time.

[SoCalDem]

20. She married money..

The life of a spinster librarian probably didn't look like much fun. At least with her marriage, she got financial stability, nice places to live, free travel, and for the first part of the marriage it seems as if he was sleeping off a binge most of the time. Now that he's sober (is he?) she seems to have plenty of free time on her own..

They have probably come to an accomodation.. he needs a nice little wifey-poo and she's guaranteed to always have a cushy life and plenty of moolah.. and Babs won;t live forever :)

[Libby2]

21. I don't know if she is off limits,

but I do know she is a fucking joke.

[Tarc]

22. Jon Stewart raked her over the coals awhile ago

You don't remember the satire he did on the "milking a male horse" joke she told at the White House Correspondents Dinner earlier this year?

[HughBeaumont]

23. You can't really make fun of something that's so DULL.

She's a cut-out figure. An ornament. You could make more jokes about brick walls, for God's sake.