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Originally Posted by jorgelito
It's all subjective. Bill Maher is unfunny and just as bad as Coulter in my opinion. Carlos Mencia is way down there too along with Sarah Silverman. None of them are funny nor to be taken seriously. If you are taking your political cues from the above then you may have serious problems. John Stewart and Bill Maher take themselves way too seriously, I don't think they think of themeselves as comedians until they hide behind that label after biting off more than they can chew.
However, Steven Colbert is a freakin' genius and wipes his ass regularly with the above.
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I like Silverman, but I've got to admit that she relies almost entirely on shock humor and fails often. Still, I keep coming back, as to a Dilbert comic with one funny moment a week. I don't hate her, so she's a few levels above Mencia in my mind - not that this is hard to accomplish.
Stewart
can be good when he's trying to be serious and when he's trying to be funny. Problem is, he's inconsistent in both modes. When he's on, he's on. When he's not, I switch to Futurama reruns. And yeah, when he does that "I'm a comedian" retreat from serious comments, he annoyingly reminds me of Coulter.
Colbert is great, but he's had mediocre days like Stewart, and he doesn't have a couple talented correspondants to fall back on when that happens. Stewart's got Oliver, if no one else.
There's this guy on another board I frequent - he's mostly liberal in his beliefs - who insists that Coulter is a brilliant political satirist. Meaning, of course, that she does great satire of the
right, a la Colbert. I'd have to admit, it'd be genius if she was actually an American version of Borat.