Joel STEIN wrote jokes for BECK?!1 I hope there were Sarcasm-smilies on them

[UTUSN]

Now STEIN has seemed to be vaguely O.K. He was the one who skewered Tweety back when. Tweety was literally drooling and leering over clips being re-run multiple times of Britney shedding her duds, until STEIN said, "You're beginning to creep me out," and Tweety replied, "Yeah, well, just wait till YOU're fifty."


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http://www.nypost.com/seven/06152009/gossip/pagesix/joel_stein_helps_glenn_beck_write_jokes_174289.htm

JOEL STEIN HELPS GLENN BECK WRITE JOKES

FOX News' Glenn Beck got help from an unlikely source when coming up with material for his "Common Sense" comedy tour. In the new issue of Time, humor columnist Joel Stein writes that Beck took him up on his offer to write some jokes for the show. Quips Stein: "I wound up sending him several political bits, including one about the silliness of moving terrorist prisoners to American soil: 'There are already too many things we don't want on our soil: carmakers, soccer, nuclear power, Roman Polanski, ants, Mexicans.' Beck wrote back that he couldn't use a lot of my material. 'If I were to use all of this, I'd be facing this headline the next day, "Glenn Beck: There are too many things we don't want on our soil . . . (such as) Mexicans." ' "

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[Johonny]

1. Republicans are not funny.

[UTUSN]

2. Here's a X-post courtesy of PVnRT in the Lounge re: BECK's "comedy" content

http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-watch-glenn-becks-comedy-tour-regret-it/

[dem629]

3. BREAKING: Comedy/humor/satire writers like to....write jokes!

If you only write for or about one side, you're cutting your material in half.

That's all.

[UTUSN]

4. So then, when LIMBOsevic says "Lighten up, people" after viciously zinging Lefties

we actually *should* just lighten up. O.K. Thanks.

[dem629]

5. It's up to you whether you give him an audience.

I don't.