Obviosity
With Sarah Palin in the news, and Obama in the Soviet Union, I've heard, on TV and radio, several versions (including Letterman's and Conan's) of what amounts to the same joke, all based on the line about Sarah Palin seeing Russia from her house.
When you write jokes, you generally try to find a smart, different angle (though there are those who figure the obvious line is best since everyone will get it). I don't know if the gag writers here thought they had something clever, but pretty much everyone figured out the connection immediately. Really it's not much of a joke. And worse, it's a false-premise joke, since it's based on another (better) joke, not on Palin's words.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:22 AM
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LAGuy wrote: And worse, it's a false-premise joke, since it's based on another (better) joke, not on Palin's words.
I think that it's a lost cause to make that distinction. Nobody can tell the difference between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey's Sarah Palin anymore. It would be like trying to convince people that George H.W. Bush didn't say "Wouldn't be prudent" all the time. That's just about the only fact anyone knows about him....
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