Memorandum

TO:  Members of the National Comedy Writers Association

FR:  Comedy Guidelines Committee

RE:  Barack Obama Guidelines

            Given the latest flap from our friends at the New Yorker magazine, we have decided to issue the following advisory guidelines for all of you funny guys out there:  Barack Obama is not funny.  Don’t go there.  Don’t risk it.  Not worth it.

            We say this with a heavy heart, being that we have always found every political candidate in history to be funny in some way.  But Barack Obama is a historic figure and he must be treated with dignity and respect.  We mean it.

            Here are the specific guidelines that we recommend you follow.

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• Do not make fun of his first name.  Although none of us had ever heard of anyone named Barack before, that does not matter.  It isn’t funny in any way.
• Do not make fun of his middle name.  I don’t care how much historical irony there may be about Americans electing a guy whose middle name is Hussein who may get elected because of an unpopular war against a guy named Hussein.  That is not funny.