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November 26, 2008
Will Barack Obama Kill Comedians?
The editors of GQ start a discussion of what Barack Obama’s presidency will mean to the face of comedy. His popularity rating is “somewhere just below ‘messiah’ but above ‘pretty, pretty unicorn.’ He doesn’t offer low-hanging fruit like Bush’s marble-mouthed idiocy or Clinton’s womanizing.” When asked about the difficulty of making fun of “that one” GQ asked DAG. “The old jokes have suddenly become archaic. My white friends say, ‘Ooh, this must be great for you.’ And I’m like, ‘Why? I’m only half happy, because he’s only half black. Give me a real black man, a scary one. Then I’ll be happy.’”
Source: GQ- The Editors
