Global warming is no joke. But that didn’t stop Larry David — co-creator of “Seinfeld” and creator and star of the HBO show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” — from doing a comedy special on the subject, which will air at 7 p.m. Sunday on TBS.
“People have used humor since the beginning of time to cope with tragedy. There are always angles in every subject to find the comedy in it, and in ‘Earth to America’ all the contributors succeeded at that,” David told Salon.
And speaking of humor and global warming, David Letterman did a “Top Ten Signs There’s Global Warming” list Thursday, read by Tom Hanks. No. 10: “I just bought oceanfront property in Topeka, Kan.”
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Using humor to demonstrate political realities is a rare art. Do you remember how the Smothers Brothers talked about the Viet Nam War through comedy? Did you read the satire “Our Gang” by Philip Roth about the Nixon Admin? Comedy lets us see ourselves and our leaders in a light that allows us to laugh instead of cry, while still learning important lessons.
Perhaps gobal warming is what caused the Kansas BOE members to be half baked in their decisions. lol
So true, Kelly. I love The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and I rarely miss Jay Leno’s monologue.
Nothing humorous about this one: the rate at which the Greenland ice shelf melts has dramatically, dramatically, increased.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article328217.ece
This has the potential to shut down the Gulf Stream’s ability to warm Great Britain. Can you say, ‘permafrost’?
The british are so damn stodgy, they wouldn’t notice anyway:-))
“Even before these discoveries, scientists had shortened to evens the odds on the Gulf Stream failing this century. When it failed before, 12,700 years ago, Britain was covered in permafrost for 1,300 years.” (Taken from CF’s link)
Must have been an awful lot of cars driving around, along with serious manufacturing pollution going on 12,700 years ago. I wonder how well their computer operating system worked? Did they have a walmart too?
Oh, my God, I just figured it out: 12,700 years ago, it was the Liberals hot air that melted the ice caps!
JM,Actually, the theory has been offered that the global warming that ended the ice age was caused by methane from the farts of all the ice age megafauna (mammoths, mastodons, etc.), which then went extinct. Maybe this latest round of global warming is simply nature’s way of ridding the world of another stinky species- us!
J M Walker is hoping the oceans rise so the property his mobile home and junked cars sit on will become beachfront property. This will enable him to sell high to a casino, and pay for a new set of upper teeth.
CFDang stwaith.
J M Walker,
With a speech impediment like that, you’re either Elmer Fudd or…stereotypically non-heterosexual.
CF,You and your counterpart, Ed, need to get together and see if you are able to come up with just one intelligent comment between you.
My money’s on not.
What the heck is a “stereotypically non-heterosexual.”? Sounds like a punk rock group. Oh. I get it . . . you’re attempting to make fun of the gay community, arnt’n you? Have you no shame?
CF
I’ll take Elmer Fudd. Any word with more than three syllables throws Walker for a loop { while making him very dizzy }.
He’s been that way since “they” let him out.
I don’t mean to say that he’s not a nice guy. He just keeps bumping into things.
Oh goody, it’s hammer JM day. I love it when the handicapped attack. But I do agree with you, Ed: I will take Elmer Fudd, also. He does have more sense than both of you put together.
Ed, look under your bed: there has got to be atleast two Zions there.
CF, look under your bed: a dollar to a dognut Ed’s under there, looking for Zionists. I caught him under mine just last week:-))
The Zionist ate $50 worth of doughnuts and left me a dollar.
Typical.
JM, You were supposed to guard the doughnuts { or did you “sell-out” }.
J M,… Elmer Fudd?
It’s amazing how much expertise you show in in evaluating a fellow traveler.
Gotcha.
Ed,Your logic is like . . . not.
JM, stop picking on the bloggers. It’s not a fair match.
Aw, Ha, You ate the doughnuts. And call the fire Dept, I’m stuck in the box spring.
Ed,Where are you getting this thing with doughnuts? Who said anything about doughnuts? You addicted to them? Don’t Zionists own all the doughnut shops?
And you’re staying in the bed springs: I gotta have something to take out my aggressions on! Besides, the neighbors like it.
XXX,Hehehe!
This is silly time you idiot.
This is a time you don’t have to make sense. So, rack back, have a doughnut, and shut TFU.
Iee, me ladie, we’d be a hutin’ uz a zionist anudda deee.
{ Irish }
Does anyone else find it more than a little ironic that the man presiding over the country in the midst of the Global Warming debate has the initials G.W.?
Brian
Very observant.
How about “Global Wasting?”