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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Some jokes aren't funny

Humor is such a hard thing to understand at times, especially when people who are trying to be funny don't have a clue as to what humor really is.

There was John Kerry's "botched joke." Kerry's reaction revealed more about the man than his "botched joke" did. Others have opined this to death, so that's all I have to say about that.

Then came the Faith Hill "joke" in which she reacted with disbelief that someone else won some sort of country music award. Her reaction shows she has Kerry's problem with understanding the public perception of how some "jokes" are interpreted. All she succeeded in doing was take the spotlight away from the young award winner and focus it on herself. It worked, eh?