Liberal Comedian Derides Palin as 'Fictional Character'
Crusty comedian Lewis Black mocked Sarah Palin as a "fictional character" on CNN Wednesday, to an eruption of laughter from host Piers Morgan. "She's a fictional character that came to life. I'm serious. I think that someone wrote her," Black quipped.
Morgan played along with his act. "You couldn't invent someone like Sarah Palin, could you?" he asked the comedian, who hastily responded that Palin was "superfiction."
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Black continued battering the conservative star's ascendency in 2008, which he coined as a sort of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" story. "But the fact is Jimmy Stewart would make a better candidate for the presidency than her," he remarked. "And he's dead."
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A transcript of the segment, which aired on September 28 at 9:22 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
PIERS MORGAN: Who do you most fear becoming the Republican nominee on the basis they could then become president?
LEWIS BLACK, comedian: Sarah Palin.
MORGAN: Why?
BLACK: I don't think she exists.
MORGAN: What do you mean not exists?
BLACK: She doesn't exist. She's a fictional character.
(Laughter)
BLACK: She's a fictional character that came to life. I'm serious. I think that someone wrote her.
MORGAN: You couldn't invent someone like Sarah Palin, could you?
BLACK: Well, I mean, that's what really what makes her – it's superfiction. It's a whole – it's meta fiction. Whatever that means, America.
MORGAN: Why is she able to resonate with so many Americans in a positive way?
BLACK: Well, first off I don't know how many Americans. I think there are nine. Have you ever gotten a phone call from somebody asking you your opinion of anything?
MORGAN: No, but I'm British.
BLACK: OK. Well, no one's called me.
MORGAN: No one asks the British for any opinions any more.
BLACK: Yeah. Nobody's called me. No, I think – I mean there's certainly a group of people, you know, because she's a strong woman. You know, and she's – she certainly speaks her mind. But to think that she's going to – you know, as a president. You know, when she became the vice presidential candidate, I said this is all really great if it's like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." If this is a movie. But the fact is, is that Jimmy Stewart would make a better candidate for the presidency than her. And he's dead.
(Laughter)
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Couldn't invent?
Submitted by kata on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:10pm.
Gosh they do it everyday.
lewis black
Submitted by east tennessee john on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:13pm.
Who the hell is this jerk off ex, maybe not ex-rummy talking about who's real and who's not? Can he, or Morgan for example, care to move beyond the cheap, easy ad hominem attacks and address, if they themselves are even capabale, an issue of policy? I doubt it. Jerk offs.
Another liberal alleged
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:14pm.
Another liberal alleged comedian bashing Palin? Who'da thunk it?!?
/sarc
Consider the source
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:20pm.
I can't think of a contemporary stand-up comic who hasn't revealed some sort of human frailty -- substance abuse/addiction, low self-esteem, eating disorder, etc.
So when they start raggin' on other celebrities, I don't expect any sense of knowledgeable fact to emerge.
The weaker ones like Joy Behar don't even get laughs.
To be more specific...
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:52pm.
...a panel at an American Psychiatric Association meeting a few years ago talked about celebrity mental illnesses with very public manifestations (e.g. Spears, Hilton, etc.), and the consensus from the nine psychiatrists on the panel was three mental illnesses are the most common: attention seeking personality disorder (treatable only by psychotherapy), bipolarity (treatable by multiple medications) and addiction disorders across the spectrum of substances and behaviors (gambling, shoplifting, etc.).
His firestorm brand of comedy went out along time ago...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:20pm.
Lenny Bruce is dead my friend! The only fictional character is your multiple personalities in your head there Lewis.
Lewis was on the Opie and Anthony radio show today..
Submitted by Jnoble on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:27pm.
..and was pretty funny until politics was brought up. Then he became yet another unglued angry cliche-pouting Hollywood liberal. Cheney/Halliburton/rich not paying enough, Bush should've raised taxes after 9-11 etc etc...the usual crap.
Come November 2012
Submitted by Bodini on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 6:08pm.
I hope Lewis, the chubby-cheeked Marxist Moron, forgets to exhale and explodes! Now that would be funny ... I don't care who you are ... THAT WOULD BE FUNNY!
Who????
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 3:45pm.
'nuff said about his opinion.
It Is More Likely That
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:14pm.
Lewis Black is a fictional character; has anybody ever heard of him?
What real person would put their own name to such idiotic comments?
I remember the first time I
Submitted by Reaver on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 6:44pm.
I remember the first time I heard of this guy, I was over at a friend’s house looking through his DVD’s when I found one of this guy. I pull it out and say who’s this? Oh Lewis Black, he’s a stand-up comic. Yea, so what’s he do? Well, sort of an angry liberal shtick. As I put the disc back on the shelf, no thanks I have enough angry liberals to deal with in real life. Besides the angry liberal shtick has been done to death.
Superman
Submitted by djaymick on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:21pm.
Haven't we seen the media Obama portray as the fictional character, Superman?
You sure it wasn't this
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:36am.
You sure it wasn't this fictional character? http://www.movieposterstudio.com/pimg/SuperFly_Span1.jpg
Inadvertently correct?
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:33pm.
Sarah Palin is real, as compared to these fake dipshit nimrods that hang around each other telling themselves how wonderful they are
Conservative bashing
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:43pm.
It's a cheap and easy way of boosting your career, not to mention playing to the liberal ego-stroke/echo chamber market that Stewart and Maher have benefited from. Don't libs ever get tired of the same jokes over and over again?
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
It's always good to see how
Submitted by robert108 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:45pm.
It's always good to see how much the left still fears Sarah.
Gutsy move
Submitted by Mike009 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 4:57pm.
These Hollywood lefties are so brave - so edgy - never afraid of controversy - eager to deal with controversial subjects in their act even at the risk of offending. Bashing Sarah Palin sure takes guts.
Actually this is mild
Submitted by marpel on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 5:47pm.
Actually this is mild compared to what Bill Maher says, and not nearly as mean. I don't think Sarah would even pay attention to what Lewis Black has to say...she's certainly heard worse.
Hopefully, she's learned to pick her battles and not pay attention to some of these idiots.
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
I think you're right
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 6:48pm.
This is a case of has-been comic wanting the ratings boost that Palin bashing brings.
"has-been"? More like
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:42am.
"has-been"?
More like "never-was."
Amazing how a man who makes
Submitted by ThePickle on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 5:50pm.
Amazing how a man who makes his living standing on stage, acting like a grandiose "caricature" of himself and telling "humorous" fictional stories doesn't see one iota of irony in his statement that "Sarah Palin is a fictional Character"
Fictional character?*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 6:17pm.
This is a very telling comment about liberals. An ordinary hard working mother and grandmother who lives in a difficult climate to them is a "fictional character"?
Exist???
Submitted by West Covina on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 6:37pm.
Lewis, it isn't that Sara Palin doesn't exist, it's your testicles that don't exist. Never have...never will.
Jon Liebowitz Stewart is a
Submitted by buddyc on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 7:34pm.
Jon Liebowitz Stewart is a comedian. Lewis Black is trailer trash. He is not funny at all. He is just another has been/never was trying to squeeze out some income by bashing liberal enimies. Look at Joy Behar who set the example. She is a no talent bitch who thrives on nasty comments about republicans. But she, like Black, is not smart or funny.
Lewis Black Really is Funny
Submitted by HollyW on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 8:14pm.
Like so many comedians these days, Lewis Black's liberal political beliefs drain the substance from his true talent and alienates many who would have found him quite funny. Last night he passionately said that man made global warming exists. Then he goes on to make fun of Palin? Lewis doesn't know if man made global warming exists.....he might think it does, but stating it as fact drains his energy when he could be making fun of something....which he does so well. I'm fine with making fun of everybody, dems and republicans....but "Palin is stupid" and "Tea Party is racist" ain't funny. When he's not doing that, Lewis Black is hilarious.
Good Point Holly.,..
Submitted by packman on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 8:28am.
I too have enjoyed the occasional comedy of Lewis Black, but like many Hollywood types he falls into the LDS trap - that's liberal derangement syndrome - wherein they suddenly see themselves as politically savvy, uber-intelligent, and thinking they can leap tall buildings in a single bound while telling the rest of us what we should think. Funny, his entire professional life is a bunch of made-up crap, but on this subject he is an expert? I don't think so.
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
Nevermind
Submitted by HollyW on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 8:28pm.
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Morgan asked the comedian...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 9:23pm.
... "who hastily responded that Palin was "superfiction." Morgan maintains that Obama has "superpowers!"
BLACK: Well, first off I don't know how many Americans. I think there are nine. Have you ever gotten a phone call from somebody asking you your opinion of anything?
MORGAN: No, but I'm British. (I used to hack into cell phones to find out what the opinion was...)
MORGAN: No one asks the British for any opinions any more. (But they still insist on giving it to us... Bashir in the house too?)
Is this even coherent?
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 9:36pm.
BLACK: I don't think she exists.
MORGAN: What do you mean not exists?
BLACK: She doesn't exist. She's a fictional character. (Laughter)
BLACK: She's a fictional character that came to life. I'm serious. I think that someone wrote her.
MORGAN: You couldn't invent someone like Sarah Palin, could you?
No, I dont think it is.
Mind you, a real person to these 2 geniuses cant be made up?
Comes close to a hallucination.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 9:46pm.
Start ticking off the schizophrenia symptoms in that comedian.
Maybe it's because so much of
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 11:21pm.
Maybe it's because so much of her "material" seems like it couldn't be real.
like what?
Submitted by kata on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 11:58pm.
.
I think by "real"...
Submitted by Karma on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 6:58am.
Bal means "natural". Some of her clothing "material" doesn't look natural. It's probably made from rayon, polyester, nylon and other "synthetic" "material". He's probably correct in this case.
Like when she was basically
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 10:20am.
Like when she was basically saying she wasn't sure if she should run for president because then she wouldn't be able to "keep it real."
so,
Submitted by kata on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:20am.
you watched the entire interview with Greta VanSusteren then?
Lot of personal paraphrasing
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 11:48am.
Lot of personal paraphrasing with no in-context quote (link included) to check your accuracy, Bal. Not exactly a method to generate confidence in your statement.
No Bal, Obama's material is
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 11:46pm.
No Bal,
Obama's material is unreal, not to mention, childish but it has obviously found an audience with you and your friends. Have you sent your voluntary tax check in yet?
Turned in any of your neigbhors to the thought police lately or apologized to the illegal alien on the street for being a white American?
speaking of fictional characters
Submitted by OuttaMyWay on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 12:43pm.
That is what Lewis Black's act is, he acts like an angry person during the whole thing. I mean he is angry most the time, say at a 7, then he ramps it up to 11 for the act. After all, if he is going to do the same act day after day, what if someone gave him a cookie right before the show, he would be all "what a great day today" and that would ruin he reputation, so he ACTS in a MADE UP way.
Well, yeah, that's why
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 2:10pm.
Well, yeah, that's why comedians refer to what they do as their "act."
Have to say, Bal, never saw anyone with such a comedian fetish.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:09pm.
It's like they exist on some separate plane, and get a total pass on everything, even when they are not actually comedianning.
Exactly how am I giving a
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 5:44pm.
Exactly how am I giving a pass on this?
"It's just comedy!"
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 6:21pm.
"It's just comedy!"
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dirtball lew
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 1:24pm.
another dirtball liberal......funny like cancer.....
Hmmmmmm.
Submitted by telecaster on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 2:45pm.
I guess this guy ought to know about "fictional characters" dealing in fictional situations and characters as he does everyday for a living. Not certain he would know an authentic person if she came up to him and slapped in his fictional face. Strange days....strange days indeed.