It’s hard to overstate how upset I got while watching the Corey Lewandowski hearings on Tuesday. I watched the first hour live and had to turn it off because my hands were shaking and I could no longer concentrate. The display of inherent contempt was beyond the pale. The crudeness. The vulgarity. The incivility. The daring. The insults. The snobbery. The mendacity. The sheer madness of the whole spectacle. It was an assault on our collective understanding of what it means to be an American and to respect our constitution and institutions. I was going to write a diary of my experiences and thoughts for therapeutic reasons, but I couldn’t write. It got so bad, hours later, I had to have my wife talk me down off the ledge. For me, it was that bad.
My wife recommended a diversion. So instead of harping on what’s wrong with the world, just for a moment, I wanted to laugh. And as fate would have it, I happened upon this clip from John Mulaney which (for me) hit the nail right on the head. So I will share it with you. I hope you laugh. I’ve now seen it 5 times and it’s spot on perfect political comedy.
Given the intensity of the diaries and stories here on DailyKos, if this diary goes over well, I will publish a “comic relief” diary once a week (or so). I swear, it’s therapeutic. We need to laugh sometimes. And we need to do it together.
Feel free to add a comic strip or clip of your favorite below.
The clip is 4:10 in length.