Lighten up, you P.C. motherf**kers! (video blog ; )

When did we lose our sense of humor? Was it upon acceptance of Newt Gingrich‘s Contract With America? Should we have read the fine print first? Sure seems like sometime back in the 90s our fellow citizens stopped laughing and started admonishing others for poking fun at anyone, anything, anytime. Now, political correctness trumps levity and we are the worse for our weighty sensitivity. It’s one thing to browbeat Don Imus for his asinine remarks about the Rutgers basketball squad. (The shock-jock is an idiot who alleges he’s a yuckster whenever one of his perverse, racist remarks slips thru his lips.) It is quite another matter to attack paid, professional comedians for…. doing their jobs. You may not agree with Bill Maher, but you needn’t watch him. You may not like Dennis Miller, but he’s easy to tune out. To be fair, those guys do weave governmental invective into their routines as if we were all part of their partisan quilting bees. However, there are plenty of comedians whose only agenda is to make you laugh and even when they fall short of their campaign promises, they ought not be impeached for the effort. 

Watch today’s THINK! piece for a recently scapegoated mirth-maker who dared make fun of a minor celebrity. (And I do mean minor.) Then, lighten up… and draw your own conclusions.

BONUS: click here for a clip from my documentary HUMOR ME, in which comedians determine which of their colleagues are no longer (or never were!) funny.