Comedy in the Age of Obama

Reports of the demise of comedy in the wake of Barack Obama's inspiring/historic presidential win have been largely exaggerated.

David Letterman's writers are off to a good start:


8 years of fish-in-a-barrel George Dubya jokes have made it easy to lose sight of what comedy can be. The comic angle doesn't always have to be someone's sheer incompetence. And it doesn't require some big Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal, either. (And no, you don't even have to resort to the racist stuff—though I'm sure that's going to be abundant in the next few years.)

Plenty to work with here, people. Grab your torches, head back to camp.