Doonesbury Sunday

[JohnnyRingo]

I was saddened when I read Trudeau's recent interview where he stated that his best days are when he doesn't have to draw a strip. While he's on hiatus,thank goodness that he still pens the weekly Sunday panel. He's older than me, and I'm retired, so I can't begrudge him, but material like this won't be replaced in my lifetime:



I'm reminded of right wing wag Greg Gutfield.

[Adsos Letter]

1. Doonesbury and The Far Side

Two of the best

[tblue37]

3. Don't forget _Calvin and Hobbes_ and _Bloom County_!

All of them brilliant--and all quit when they were ready to. I miss them all, but I would have been sad to see them fade away, too. Maintaining that level of brilliance for so many years must be exhausting.

[GeoWilliam750]

2. What a hoot!

I just tried googling:

"great..."

"conservative...."

and there is then no auto-complete for "comedian"

[daleanime]

4. K&R....

[emsimon33]

5. My introduction to the Doonesbury characters was at Yale

Trudeau did a strip for the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper, when he was an undergraduate there.

I agree that when he stops penning his strips, it will be a huge loss.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, JohnnyRingo.

[Gothmog]

7. Conservatives do not have a sense of humor

I remember Fox News' failure called the Half Hour News Hour. It was basically a normal fox news broadcast with a laugh track

[rock]

8. When I was very young

I thought I didn't get conservative humor. Then when I got old enough I realized that they don't get it. It's not humor.

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Mallard Filmore

A strip from last week was a single panel of an empty Oval Office desk where the answering machine was playing Obama's message: "I'm on yet another vacation".

Hilarious.

[rock]

12. That got a chuckle from me!

[Union Scribe]

15. That's another reason conservative comedy isn't funny

It's based on total lies that everyone who isn't conservative can see right through. One would have to watch nothing but Fox News to think that "vacation" joke had any of the biting truth-telling that political comedy should deliver.

[DirkGently]

10. Humor works when it's based in truth. n/t

[Enthusiast]

14. Humor only works when it's based in truth.

Fixed that fer ya.

[Paladin]

11. Suck on THAT, Dennis Miller and P.J. O'Rourke...... (nt)

[Electric Monk]

13. k&r