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...think Ronald Reagan, and Nixon, and Johnson, for goodness' sake. I think more often than not we happen to elect guys that are good for my business. Bush has been great because, to get pretentious for a moment, Freud says you laugh about what you fear. On that basis, Bush has provided many more laughs, because the fear level has gone up so drastically...
...Sunday afternoon, and my first instinct was to laugh at it. But I don't really make public comments about other people who are doing the same work in the same field I do. I think second-guessing satire, as we have seen this week, is ugly and unrewarding work. So is defending it. Basically, satire should be like a bad traffic accident...
...Yeah. You know, the late George Carlin said that satirists - or I think his word was cynics but I think really the word he intended is satirists - are basically disappointed idealists. So you're making people laugh, but you're kind of writing from anger: "It shouldn't be this way! Damn it, why is it like this? Wake up, people!" But as the curdling effect gets more profound, comedy kibitzers kind of do what I would call topical comedy as opposed to satire. And you can see the mechanism of that starting up: the guys are getting their trusty...
...know yet. We just did a photo shoot for a magazine layout that's gonna come out in November that would be the 25th anniversary of the movie. We've been talking about some kind of concert tour. We really love to get together. We make each other laugh still. And we love playing music, so why wouldn't we do that? The Spinal Tap business has been a - what do they say on the business shows? - a declining asset for some time in terms of us. Somebody's making money off of Spinal...
...fight or two. As Homer says, "Indians like to get together where they're not gonna be bothered or watched or nothing like that. Want to get out there and just be free - nobody watchin' every move you make." As dawn breaks, Homer, Tommy and two women laugh as they walk down a back street. Above them, in her friend's bedroom, Yvonne listens...