I think your point actually goes to one of the ones I made in my ramble up there, though–funny or not is basically irrelevant. I don’t think his ultimate goal was to give a successful comedy performance, but to speak seriously to/for those of us who DO have that passionate hatred, while also working within the expected lines just enough that he wouldn’t come off like Michael Moore at the Oscars. So I think he did what he set out to do very, very well. That’s an entirely different question from whether it was funny, which I’m happy to disagree about.

And it is interesting to get your take, seeing as I know for a fact you’re funny and smart. My apologies for lumping you in with people who aren’t.

Nobody has to agree with me or see it my way, though I do think many in the audience probably did. If you don’t have a passionate hatred of the administration ─ and believe it or not, some people don’t ─ it just wasn’t very satisfying to watch.