President Trump and his colleagues are often the targets, but he has made fun of others’ appearance as well.
By Lara Zarum April 11 at 9:00 AM When Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out of the 2016 Republican primary, Samantha Bee mourned. In early May of that year, Bee paid tribute to the eminently mockable presidential hopeful on her late-night TBS show, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Elliott Kalan, a former head writer for “The Daily Show” under Jon Stewart, says the ideal joke is more substantive. “It’s rare that the situation ever comes up where it’s like, this is all good stuff about this person’s policies, but let’s dig deep and see if we can come up with a joke about their appearance,” he says.
Johnny Carson went after Ronald Reagan’s jet-black hair so often that Nancy Reagan asked him to stop. In a backhanded sort of way, he did, clarifying to his audience that Reagan doesn’t dye his hair — “he bleaches his face.” And it wasn’t just comedians who cracked about leaders’ looks: Gerald Ford took aim not only at Reagan’s hair but his deeply tanned skin when he said of his onetime GOP primary challenger, “He doesn’t dye his hair — he’s just prematurely orange.
J.R. Havlan, who wrote for both Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” says jokes that some might have perceived as too aggressive — like Stewart repeatedly comparing Mitch McConnell to a turtle — were driven by the writers’ real sense of anger at the targets of their ridicule. “We were offended by what they were doing, we were offended by decisions they made, things they said and bills they passed and ideas they had.
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