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7th October 2008 Charles J. Brown
05:15 pm

Quote of the Day


David Weigel, reviewing David Zucker’s An American Carol, explains why “conservative comedy” doesn’t work:

David Zucker['s] goals here are as partisan, zealous, and transparent as Warren Beatty’s when he made Reds, or John Travolta’s when he made Battlefield Earth. . . .

Political comedy mocks authority. Conservative comedy in the Age of Bush venerates authority. . . . If you transported Zucker back to 1978 and pitched him Animal House, he’d direct Niedermeyer: Man of Iron.

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