This is a blog I wrote eight years ago about a comedian I had seen. He phoned me after reading the blog. He was disappointed with my reaction. I encouraged him.
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Mar 23, 2006
Comedy on the right
Last night I heard a comedian who is working the Republican Jewish Coalition circuit. Evan Sayet is developing his shtick as an hour long standup comedian with conservative groups.
Sayet is a great comedy writer and his material is really impressive. As a comedian, where timing and delivery are everything, he is mediocre. I look forward to the day a really great comedian comes along and uses Sayet’s material.
One of Sayet’s observations is that Jimmy Carter was the first president with a child’s name. Carter was a cowardly incompetent president and remains a petulant bad boy. Another of his observations is that Lefties have only three words in their platform: 'liar, Hitler and stupid'. He got the audience to repeat those words by asking the audience what the Lefty platform is on: social security, national security, the environment, Katrina and health care.
He noted the Lefty hypocrisy in naming their TV programs: Hard Ball with Chris Mathews (never hard ball), Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (always politically correct) and Larry King Live (live?).
(Sayet used to write for Maher and describes Maher as incredibly arrogant.)
The relevance of last night’s show is that the Left is now in a phase of being ridiculed. Ridicule is the prelude to demise and sometimes to rebirth. I can’t see today’s Left being around in its current form several years from now.
Posted by Michael Phillips on Mar 23, 2006 at 03:47 PM
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Sayet has since become a master of standup comedy and brilliant as well. This is a nine minute exerpt from an hour long piece.