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How Can You Laugh at a Time Like This?

Gypsy & Willy

No. 351

How can you laugh? Try this...

October 8, 2001

At the very end of last week's column (So far, still good!), we commented that "...one weird result of the WTC attack has been that comics are afraid to ply their trade."

Thanks to some alert readers and Jon Stewart...of the Daily Show on Comedy Central...whom we watch religiously (pun intended)...we have gathered some droll...if not uproariously funny...anecdotes to pass your way.

Mr. Stewart was the first out of the box. Noting, as we had, the strange and wondrous action of the U.S. government during Bush's first major address to the nation, he gave a heads-up to his audience. It seems that while both houses of Congress, all nine Supreme Court justices and Bush's entire cabinet had gathered in one place to hear the speech, we were told that...for security reasons...Vice President Cheney was deliberately absent from the assemblage.

HUH!!!???

Let's get this straight. Should a terrorist have hit the capitol during that time, our entire government would have been destroyed...all three branches...EXCEPT the Veep! What was he expected to do, install himself as emperor in that situation? Or perhaps some idiot in the Secret Service simply thought he was the "right thing?" And people wonder why libertarians do not trust the government!

The Onion...an online humor ezine...published a number of cynical...and funny...articles under the following headlines:

American Life Turns into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie

Not Knowing What Else to Do, Woman Bakes American Flag Cake

President Urges Calm, Restraint Among Nation's Ballad Singers

God Angrily Clarifies "Don't Kill" Rule

...and our favorite...

Hijackers Surprised to Find Selves in Hell

As evidence that we weren't the only ones longing for some non-politically-correct humor...a la Jay Leno...The Onion received seventeen and a half million hits on their site the very first day these articles were posted. If you haven't read them yet, click on the name above and do so.

Chris Rock added his two cents on the Today Show, opining that "You really must not believe in God if you think he needs your help. Like He pulled a hamstring or something?"

Meanwhile, our very own Taliban, characterized by the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson proclaimed that we (America) brought this on ourselves by catering to homosexuals and lesbians. Had they not been serious, this might have been the funniest bit yet.

Circulating around the world on the Internet via email...dutifully passed along by almost every recipient it seems, was the following.

If we kill Osama bin Laden, he will become a martyr.

If we catch him and put him on trial, his associates will take hostages and try to exchange them for their role model.

So, we should snatch him, perform a quick sex change operation and send HER back to Afghanistan.

This last found its way into the "Letters" column of the Minneapolis Star/Tribune after which, some brain-dead humor deprived pinhead got a letter published in the same place calling it an "jingoistic" missive! Must have been a liberal...

Finally, we leave you with the following pair of cartoon panels, also circulated via email on the Net.

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