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...that I've interviewed you, would you like to become my homeboy?' DAMON WEAVER, an 11-year-old journalist from Pahokee, Fla., asking President Barack Obama a final question during their Aug. 13 interview at the White House...
...recent mission. "Who should we get?") He delved into the economic crisis, pinpointing the bitter irony of banks' having to declare bankruptcy ("How do you f___ up your only job?"). And he waded fearlessly into perhaps the most treacherous satiric waters of all: the new resident of the White House. (See TIME's history of stand-up comedy...
...John McCain's befuddlement at how to combat his Democratic foe during the presidential campaign. "How the f___ am I losing? I'm a war hero!" he imagines McCain thinking. "He came this close to saying, 'He's black!' " Ted Alexandro gets a big laugh by harking back to white America's old fears of blacks moving onto their turf: "Not only is Barack Obama our first black President, but it's the end of white Presidents forever. Because you know what they...
...problem, for white comics as well as black ones, is that they actually like Obama, and they say so. Even Lewis Black, the quivering maestro of political outrage, strains to put an edge on his obvious admiration for the President. "He's the first leader in my lifetime who's actually full of hope," Black says in his act. "His nipples are bursting with hope! He's lactating hope!" Talking after a recent set at New York's Gotham Comedy Club, Black admits that Obama is difficult to make fun of but insists he's had no trouble finding political...
...opened up a bitter divide in the country, it forced stand-up comedians to take notice - and take sides. Even with a President who's no longer a ready-made joke, for comedians, there's no going back. As for Obama, he'll need to watch his step. Those White House rugs can be dangerous...