Obama Candidacy Hurting Late Night Comedians

"There has been little humor about Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race. ... "We're carrion birds," said Stewart, "We're sitting up there saying 'Does he seem weak? Is he dehydrated yet? Let's attack.' ... So far, our take is that he's positioning himself to be on a coin." Colbert said he had been freer to poke fun at Obama than other late-night hosts because "my character on the show doesn't like him. I'm expected to be hostile to him." Maher, who is host of a politically oriented late-night show on HBO, said, "If you can't do irony on the cover of The New Yorker, where can you do it?" Read story at NewsCloud.