American Comics Need a "Stimulus Package"

After 8 years of mocking Bush, why are they suddenly all tongue-tied about the new guy?

Some guy from the New York Times postulates that, well, since most of the late night talk show hosts are white, it's kinda awkward to make fun of a black guy. It's kinda stupid, since there are more things to make fun off about The One other than what pigment his skin happens to be. But, the second major reason for the lack of Obama jokes is just absolutely pathetic.

But there has been little humor about Mr. Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race.

“We’re doing jokes about people in his orbit, not really about him,” said Mike Sweeney, the head writer for Mr. O’Brien on “Late Night.” The jokes will come, representatives of the late-night shows said, when Mr. Obama does or says something that defines him — in comedy terms.

What? Little humor? That can't possibly be right. Obama may not have Bush's "creativity" with the English language, but he's a gaffe machine in his own right.

Have they forgotten Obama and the receding oceans? Obama seeing dead people? Obama and the 57 states of the US?

Oh, wait....

Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the ABC late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” said of Mr. Obama, “There’s a weird reverse racism going on. You can’t joke about him because he’s half-white. It’s silly. I think it’s more a problem because he’s so polished, he doesn’t seem to have any flaws.”

There it is. These creatively impoverished, overpaid celebrities think The One is the absolute pinnacle of perfection.

Witness "The View" co-host and professional harpy Joy Behar on CNN recently:

BEHAR: Yes. And all I can say is thank you for Joe Biden, because he is going to always give us some laughs. He'll say something crazy and out there, and it will be fun. And Sarah Palin, you know, we can always rely on her to come back and give us some material. But it is really not easy to make fun of the Obamas, because they're really -- they're kind of really perfect, aren't they?

When celebrities do celebrity-worship, it's just plain ugly. Perfect? Obama is an intellectual lightweight; every bit the lightweight the media portrayed Bush to be. Why is he getting preferential treatment? Are these celebrity morons afraid of making their Dear Leader cry?

Perfect?

This sort of personality worship bodes ill for everybody in Obama's path. The scary part is that these people are freely submitting themselves to this dimestore messiah. Totalitarian countries often have to work very hard to obtain this kind of slavish groveling.

Perfect? Really?

I guess 8 years of visceral, irrational hatred can leave an entire class of people deprived of creative currency.

Looks like a creativity crash. Time for another bailout.