For these Republicans, comedy is serious business (Repuke Comedy)

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For these Republicans, comedy is serious business

By Harry Bruinius

There were some laughs, but most of the 35 or so people who shuffled into the Laugh Factory in Times Square seemed to have come out of spite.

Not spite for the comedians, a touring act of self-styled radical right-wingers who've billed themselves "The Right Stuff," but spite for those noxious nabobs in the media - smug smart alecks like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart who make fun of George W.

At first, Jere Brill, a silver-haired Upper East Side Manhattanite, didn't even think this crew of conservative comics had the chops to make her chuckle. She heard about the show while listening to one of the performers on a right-wing radio show.

"To tell you the truth, I didn't think he was too funny on the radio, but I wanted to support them, because I think it's important to support the Republican point of view," she explained. "It's something I'm very passionate about, my president and my country, so that's why we came."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0902/p10s01-uspo.html

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1. Kings Jesters Are Marginally Funny (At Best)

Don't understand how people can consider themselves satirists when they refuse to poke fun at the most powerful people in the country.

If satire is the art of making the comfortable uncomfortable, how can you speak for the little guy when you are sitting snugly in the big guys hip pocket?

Comics should ridicule the ridiculous regardless of party.