It was President Harry S. Truman who famously said that if you can't take the heat, "get out of the kitchen".
Rolling Stone recently revealed that while Donald Trump was president, the onion-skinned Archduke of Affluenza was so offended by Jimmy Kimmel's nightly monologues, that he pressured members of his staff to contact Disney, ABC's corporate parent, and do something about Kimmel, like, perhaps, forcing him to stop poking fun at the man-child in Washington.
Of course, as Kimmel himself recounted last night, he didn't do that.
As Farron Cousins reveals, Kimmel was the 2nd target of the oldest baby in America, one year after late night rival Stephen Colbert was caught in the man-child's crosshairs.
I can recall when President George H. W. Bush shared the stage with Dana Carvey, showing respect to Carvey's characterization of Bush on Saturday Night Live. Trump, meanwhile, whined and cried whenever Alec Baldwin appeared on SNL to mock him. What a difference, eh?
"WAAAHHHHHH!!! They're making fun of me! WWAAAAHHHH!"
Deal with it, O Sultan of Spray Tan. It comes with the territory!!! Every President since the dawn of television, from Truman all the way to Biden today, has taken the jabs with good humor. Barack Obama had more than one mimic on SNL, most famously the People's Movie Star himself, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Shoot, you didn't like it, Orange Doofus, when Obama skewered you at a Washington dinner.
Bellevue is waiting.
It goes back farther than that.
ReplyDeleteAny Old-Time Radio buffs can come up with many FDR voices, on every comedy show (and more than a few dramas and mysteries).
Among others, Art Carney got started doing FDR on radio shows; years afterward, on a talk show with old friend Jackie Gleason, Carney showed that he still knew the voice and the mannerisms ("Myyyy friends ... I hate war ... you hate war ... and we all hate Eleanor!"
(On the same show, Carney also did Harry Truman - and threw in H.V. Kaltenborn for good measure.)
Just one of the lessons Trump never bothered to learn:
If you can't take the heat - DON'T BURN DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
(Or attack Congress, comes to that ...)
Cool!! I'll have to look up some of those, as I'm thinking of doing a few bits on comedy and the Presidents prior to----wait for it----April Fool's Day.
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