The Last Political Rant

Yesterday a FaceBook friend commented, after he read my blog, "I humbly suggest sticking to vent and entertaining my dear friends and colleagues." He is right... no I mean really, he sounds very RIGHT.
But I get it. I need to get back to my entertaining job. So here goes.
They say that comedy is the civilized way of avoiding aggression between people.  Animals don't laugh their way out of a fight... they just fight. A smile for a human is the barring of teeth to an animal and animals don't laugh they sheik for others to come join the fight.
The late Michael Price, comedy writer and friend, once told me.  "If you can't think of something funny, think of something that irritates  you, and make fun of that." If comedy does not have the element of surprise or masked aggression it is probably not funny.
What's irritating most of the country right now is the Government. You would think that we would be laughing out heads off with that kind of material.
Not so.  The country can't seem to come together and laugh right now.  They can't even come together enough to agree not to fight.  Mostly, because nobody is willing to let anyone else finish a thought, or maybe even a sentence before they comment.
This is my take on a comic trying to tell a joke while being interviewed by a television political commentator... your choice of talking heads and networks:

COMMENTATOR

Welcome Shecky Bevaerman from Las Vegas.  

SHECKY

Thanks.. Nice to be here.

COMMENTATOR

Shecky you make your living as a comic.

SHECKY

Yes... here’s a joke for you...

COMMENTATOR

Let me ask you, don’t you find it tough working
as a comic right now with the recession and all...
less corporate shows...  the middle class with
less money to spend on an evening out?

SHECKY

Sometimes, but Speaking of going out...
This guy walks into a bar...

COMMENTATOR

Now when you say bar you mean a place
to buy an alcoholic beverage..

SHECKY

Yeah, This guy walks into a bar and sees a gorilla...

COMMENTATOR

Because you certainly wouldn’t find a gorilla standing at the bar
of say the Supreme Court, Right?

SHECKY

Yeah... this ain’t the Supreme Court. So the guy walks up the
gorilla and starts a conversation... the...

COMMENTATOR

Is it the same conversation that 54%
 of the American people are
having about the debt ceiling?

SHECKY

No, the gorilla don’t care..
So as the guy is talking to the gorilla
the bartender comes up to them..

COMMENTATOR

Just so our viewers understand,
is the gorilla in this country legally
 or is he taking zoo jobs away
from gorilla’s who are here legally?

SHECKY

The gorilla don’t have no job, Okay?
The bartender looks at the guy
and then back to the gorilla.

COMMENTATOR

Now Mr. Beaverman if the gorilla is
unemployed how can he afford drinks at a bar?

SHECKY

It doesn’t matter if the gorilla ain’t got no job...
you see, the guy is offering to buy the gorilla a drink. 

COMMENTATOR

So basically this gorilla is unemployed
and taking hand outs from tax payers who
 are there just to have a drink for themselves?

SHECKY

This ain’t about the gorilla... the bartender over hears
the guy ask the gorilla if he can buy her a drink and says,
“Hey buddy... We don’t serve your kind here.

COMMENTATOR

The bartender certainly has the right to run his business as
 he sees fit without any governmental interference...

SHECKY

So the guy says, “What do you mean you don’t serve my kind?
I thought this was a....

COMMENTATOR

We are out of time, Thank you Mr. Shecky Beaverman...
And now we go to Katie Flippy with news from
the cloak room of the Senate House Chamber
where nothing seems to be happening...
Katie why isn't there something going on?

As you were,
Jay