Comedy on the Campaign Trail
There are a lot of factors that go into choosing a Presidential candidate to vote for, but is their sense of humor one of them? The Washington Post seems to think so. They asked three comedy experts for their takes on the current crop of politicos aspiring to the White House. Here's some of what Adam McKay had to say:
[W]hen they try to do comedy while campaigning it has to be so watered
down, it ends up coming off cute, which just can't be funny. So maybe
some 80-year-old in Iowa is chuckling, but it's never going to be genuinely funny. One of the
conditions of comedy is it has to be subversive to be funny, and no
candidate is going to be subversive. The whole beauty of the Web is
that you can do things that are shocking and opinionated and dirty, and
all of those things are things that candidates can't be. They're more
like a priest making a joke at Christmas Mass about how the kids want
to go home and open their presents.
What do you think? Who's the (intentionally) funniest candidate?
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