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This is the business we’ve chosen
Monday, Nov 3, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * John Oliver gives us a decidedly liberal take on state legislatures, including an appearance by Rep. Mike Bost (5-minute mark), but it’s worth a watch (some profanity, mostly bleeped) and it’s pretty darned funny…
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- That Guy - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:33 am:
Brief appearances by BFC and Sen Landak as well.
- Anon - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:51 am:
I saw Ann Williams too on the list of people who cake walk every two years.
- Downstate Mom - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:56 am:
also Barbara Flynn-Currie as “winner” at at the end…
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 11:59 am:
Good piece. Good for Comedy Central.
- Amalia - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 12:01 pm:
think I saw Harmon’s name on the scroll too.
the Bost bit is so funny/sad watching it going national.
- Bored Chairman - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 12:21 pm:
Hilarious. Interesting. Depressing.
- Precinct Captain - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 12:25 pm:
==Good piece. Good for Comedy Central.==
Home Box Office.
- chiatty - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 12:33 pm:
Oliver is a talented comic, no doubt.
- Wordslinger - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 12:56 pm:
You can’t fake funny.
Fox News, Rush and the far-right do most of the work for Oliver, Stewart and Colbert.
Where’s the right-wing funny show?
- very old soil - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 1:08 pm:
Fox News
- bdrlgion - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 1:20 pm:
Wordslinger - As long as the GOP is perceived as the party of rich white men, it’s going to be tough. Ripping on “The Establishment” is always funnier.
- The Lowly LA - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 2:01 pm:
They really tapped into the IL Dem unopposed at the end there. I missed Harmon, but caught the aforementioned BFC plus Camille Lilly, Ann Williams and Andre Thapedi.
Wordslinger and bdrlgion: I agree wholeheartedly.
- Skeptic - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 2:20 pm:
There’s no right wing funny and no left wing angry. (or a least not as much) I wonder how the guy that got caught copying ALEC did on his English essays in college…
- Wordslinger - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 2:21 pm:
I’m especially thick today. Just caught the II reference. Hilarious.
I think it was 47 a couple years ago, when the South burbs came up in the news, who did a riff on the Hyman Roth monologue that ended “that kid’s name was Robert Shaw. And the city he invented was Dolton. And there’s not a plaque….”
- Amalia - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 2:53 pm:
“I hate to sound like Billy Baldwin’s agent, but you can’t keep copying everything that Alec does.” priceless.
- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:17 pm:
Maybe I’ll need to pay attention to some other district. Where I am State legislators run mostly unopposed, until redistricting.
- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 3:26 pm:
….made it to the end of the bit, and I see that was the point of it.
It’s a Soviet ballot.
- MrJM - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 5:55 pm:
“Where’s the right-wing funny show?”
The Benny Hill Show?
– MrJM
- Jorge - Monday, Nov 3, 14 @ 7:15 pm:
John is the best at this. I always end my weekends with show. Can’t top the master of the dingo.