Obama Campaign Hurting Late Night Comedians
July 15th, 2008 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »
“There has been little humor about Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race. … “We’re carrion birds,” said Stewart, “We’re sitting up there saying ‘Does he seem weak? Is he dehydrated yet? Let’s attack.’ … So far, our take is that he’s positioning himself to be on a coin.” Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Obama than other late-night hosts because “my character on the show doesn’t like him. I’m expected to be hostile to him.” Maher, who is host of a politically oriented late-night show on HBO, said, “If you can’t do irony on the cover of The New Yorker, where can you do it?”
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