Fame & Being Republican

It's Leroy, isn't it.

 

In an old Simpson's episode where Ralph Wiggums became a presidential front-runner, a character who was clearly Arianna Huffington said of the Republicans, "They only have Stephen Baldwin. They might as well not even HAVE a Baldwin."

 

I think I remember Alec saying once that all his brothers were pretty conservative. I don't know if that meant compared to him or in general.

As a republican and a huge Alec Baldwin fan, I don't want to claim any of them.

 

List missing at least one "If you want to know the right slant on an issue, find out what ___ _____ feels about it, and go the other way . . . " . . . Ben Stein.

 

Broadly-appealing senses of humor in the lot: 0.

 

I can't access that list, but I'm assuming Tim Allen and Adam Sandler are on it.

 

Any body , any body

 

Surprisingly . . . Allen is not.

 

Tim Allen
Adam Sandler
Julie Bowen
Adam Carolla
Jay Leno
Jimmy Kimmel
Drew Carey
Jeff Foxworthy
Joan Rivers
Dennis Miller

I'm not claiming that there are many, at least that we know about, and some on this list have denied it, but I would bet that most people would think that at least one person on the aforementioned list is funny.

 

I used to have this argument with FB all the time, but I find that most of the funny political writers are conservative (O'Rourke, Steyn, Goldberg). I never found that guy (Stein?) who wrote at the end of Time magazine funny at all. Gail Collins sometimes made me smile. Dahlia Lithwick was pretty good with the snark, but it seemed lopsided.

I'm speaking in past tense because I don't read political opinion writing much these days.

 

Patricia Heaton
Ron Silver

 

I'm guessing a lot -- most? -- of those people live in California. A Republican in California is a different thing. You can be pro-choice and pro-environment and pro-gay rights and still be a Republican. For most of them, as with athletes, it comes down to "I pay too much taxes!"

It's for the Patricia Heatons of the world to be a Republican the way the rest of the country pictures it.