Reward for the first comedian to mock Obama

"[Incredible was] the sheer one-sidedness of the ‘unalloyed satire’ during the presidential campaign. Where was the mockery of the Democratic candidate Barack Obama? Where were the scabrous commentaries on Obama’s rather hesitant debating technique? Who was sending up the vacuity of his oratory? Or his glib Messianism?" --Tim Black on Sp!ked

Who and where indeed. It was an amazing election on so many levels, but this level -- that Obama cruised through the campaign unscathed by satire -- seems to have escaped notice. And the fact that he is still not mocked, made fun of or ridiculed (perhaps early yet for ridicule), remains a phenomenon. It's a subject that will be studied at great lengths in the future in some media and society class. For now, saying anything remotely funny about Obama is taboo. Or perhaps, as Tim Black suggests, he's seen as too perfect by the leading poo-bahs of comedy.

Where are his faults? Well first of all, you cannot mock his looks. Bush had the unfortunate luck of looking chimp-like, so that was caricatured relentlessly; nor could he "talk good" to pass elitist muster, so that was flagged, too. But Obama? In the looks and speaks department, he's the antithesis of Bush. He's a handsome guy and he has a way with words, glib and vacuous as they are. This leaves only the features that stand out, basically none save his skin. In that you'd be labeled racist. I suppose you could do his smile. But it's not that good.

I suppose once the words are parsed a bit and the national media/comedy/actors and others come down from their Obamaecstasy trip, his empty words and style will surely be mocked.... won't they please? Anyone? Anyone? He'll surely be mocked? Anyone? Bueller?

So, I will give any comedy mandarin a million dollars and a chance to appear on my show.... if they would take a little air out of the old Obaloona.