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So This Senator Walks into a Bar…

When it comes to political humor, funny is in the mind of the beholder. It’s been a horrible year. A killer virus won’t go away on the heels of a nonsensical, abrasive campaign and an interminable election process. Next we have a sheltering-in-place Thanksgiving. Right after that comes Black Friday, which seems appropriately named this year. I wrote the above as an opening for a prospective blog between the 2020 election and Thanksgiving. I spent considerable [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:09:34+00:00November 10, 2021|Humor, Jokes, Politics, Presidential Humor|

What Makes Trump Tick? “I Just Gots to Know”

Will a closer look at the words of Donald Trump help us understand? I’m trying. I really am. I’m trying to look at the humorous side of things. It was easy at first, with a president who could play himself in a Saturday Night Live skit. He can’t be serious, right? And yet there is so much to make fun of— ratings gold for the pundits. He’s a living reality show and, at the same time, so [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:00+00:00May 13, 2020|Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Fear, Germany, Grandparents, History, Presidential Humor, Sarcasm|

Laughing at Our Scary Clown Prince

Insult comic or harmless clown? Donald Trump has become the Clown Prince of American Politics. I’m talking about the entire history of American politics. This is a jester who elicits few laughs and, like the modern breed of clowns, is more scary than humorous. He looms in some of our nightmares as something out of a Stephen King novel. For others, his brand of humor is a confirmation of pent-up animosity, fear, frustration and intolerance that allows [...]

By Wes Skillings|2022-01-24T09:10:30+00:00January 24, 2020|American History, Baby Boomers, Current Events, Donald Trump, Humor, Insult Comics, Newspapers, Obama, Presidential Humor|