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Jimmy Kimmel: Superman Doesn’t Fit Trump

Kimmel joked that aides couldn’t find the right size of Superman ‘Underoos’ for the former president, who wanted to pull a Clark Kent after leaving Walter Reed in 2020.

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 Comedy is dead today because the comedians are well-fed, overpaid and afraid.

They can't do humor because they'd be the butt of the jokes too.  They want to be celebrities, and they can't do the honest humor right now our country needs. It's underground.

We NEED somebody to rip the current Biden administration for their stumbles.  We NEED people to hold up their words, and poke fun and question where they are taking the country.  We NEED political humor, with bite.  To ask:  Geez Joe, did you really mean it when you said the war won't end until we depose Putin?  "Nuclear War or Bust?" Put a funny spin on it...

We NEED women comedians from Wisconsin writing daily in the WaPo. BUT NOT a young woman raised on the millions her Ivy-League educated parents inherited and invested during their days in Washington DC.

Imagine if Alexandra Petri could do honest timely humor -- she's the daughter of former US Rep. Tom, who resigned under a cloud of ethics complaints after he just plain made too much money, all legally of course, while raising his family as DC elite and investing in companies back home in Wisconsin.  He just couldn't help make money while in Congress!  Now... his daughter is the voice of humor in the nation's Capitol -- competing with Clyde's daughter Maggie -- in making their names reporting on the Trump administratration.

She too "in" the inner circle to tell the jokes, even if she could use her elite background to crack the door and let all the rest of us in on the insane world she was raised in.

So who's covering the jokes happening today?  You just wait, this current crop of kids coming up... many of them have been bought off, and are paid puppies who will never know independence.  But I imagine a good number of them, forged by fire, will step up in hard times and use humor as their weapon. 

In the meantime, Jimmy Kimmel is making underoo jokes about Donald Trump.  You sure hope he's socking it away for his future generations;  the guy's gotta know his days in show biz are numbered, no?  Do you think HE thinks he's putting up good stuff? Trump jokes still?  UNDEROOS jokes, really?  

Even Petri, I think she's gotta know the AP History book -- a best seller for your high schooler this Christmastime! -- will likely be her height.  The jokes just aren't hitting adult levels, and nobody wants to tell her we're not laughing anymore.  Not establishment Washington which embraced her humor, not the generation from whence she came, which isn't exactly laughing alongside her elite white woman struggles.

Give us honest writers who have some experience living independently thoughout America, give us honest humor.  We are paying for these people, one way or another.  If they're not working for us, don't we have the power to put up something better at least?  God knows we've got the talent and creativity in our American masses, those coming up and in, and those already here, just not well established yet.