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it was great. Just imagine how funny it would be to make fun of all the racial stereotypes of african americans and skits with Obama. Too bad no one has any balls to do it!
"At least not by the late-night television hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman, who supply 95 per cent of the domestic market in political gags.
Analysts went through the archives and found that, even on the rare occasion of an Obama-related joke, it was usually at the expense of someone else, such as Hillary Clinton or Jesse Jackson.
When a presenter on New York's public radio station appealed to his usually talkative listeners to ring in with their favourite Obama joke, the lines went dead.
Various excuses have been supplied, some more convincing than others.
Jon Stewart, liberal media pin-up and host of the The Daily Show, said that when he'd recently tried a Barack joke, he had met with such audience resistance that he had told them: "You know, you're allowed to laugh at him."
Television insiders admitted that white writers, presenters and audiences are uneasy about making fun of a black man."
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