Daily Commentary – Friday, August 9, 2013 – Obama Now The Top Target For Late Night Comediens

• With the election over and Republicans in the background, Obama is now front and center. Anthony Wiener is in second place

Barack Obama Photo Used As Target In Dart Game At Otsego County, NY Fair … Of Course Liberals Whined and Pic was Pulled

WHAT RACISM!!!

The HuffPo is reporting that a picture of President Barack Obama was used as a target in a dart game at the Otsego County Fair in Morris, New York. Of course it did not take long before the news got out of the individuals running this game of the Obamamessiah’s likeness being used for they were asked to remove it.

Does that mean they are going to stop the Obama clown face painting booth as well?

Of course the Libs at the Huffpo were quick to blame racism and make other comments making fun of fair go’ers in update New York. Of course it would have been perfectly ok to use a likeness of GWB or Sarah Palin. Because the even-keeled Libs had no issue which a movie that promoted the assignation of Bush, but how dare there be a harmless dart game where people can throw a dart at a pic of Obama at a county fair.

Facebook - Otsego County Fair

There is no racism here folks. Having a pic of Obama to throw darts at is no different when you want your boss to participate in the pie throwing contest. Although, with how Obama administration and the IRS has gone after the Tea Party, the owners of this fair can expect audits from now until 2016, constant NSA surveillance and a Secret Service to visit.

WJAR in Cranston, R.I. Reporter Julie Tremmel Shows Everyone How to Ward Off a Bear … And Make the Rest of Us Laugh Ourselves Silly

Who knew this was how you were to ward off a bear from attacking? I don’t remember learning this exact technique while growing up. Maybe the purpose was to make the bear laugh so hard that you could run from harms way until the bear finally gets their composure.

From MSN:

Who knew that the best way to tame an angry bear was to make him convulse in laughter? The news team at WJAR in Cranston, R.I., doesn’t want viewers eaten in the deep, dark woods, so it put together a helpful news-you-can-use tutorial and found the perfect teacher in reporter Julie Tremmel.

Charles “Chuck” Foley, the Inventor of Iconic Party Game Twister Dies at Age 82

Say it isn’t so …

Charles “Chuck” Foley, the inventor of the iconic and one of the greatest party games ever, Twister, has died at the age of 82. Foley died July 1 at a care facility in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. According to his son, his father had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The game  was originally called ‘Pretzel,’ but when they sold it to Milton Bradley, they came up with the name ‘Twister’. The game became an overnight sensation after Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor played it on “The Tonight Show” in 1966.  Thank you Mr. Foley for creating one of the greatest games ever.

Twister called itself “the game that ties you up in knots.” Its detractors called it “sex in a box.”

Charles “Chuck” Foley, the father of nine who invented the game that became a naughty sensation in living rooms across America in the 1960s and 1970s because of the way it put men and women in compromising positions, has died. He was 82.

Foley died July 1 at a care facility in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. His son, Mark Foley, said Thursday that his father had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Foley and a collaborator, Neil Rabens, were hired in the mid-1960s by a St. Paul manufacturing firm that wanted to expand into games and toys. They came up with a game to be played on a mat on the floor, using a spinner to direct players to place their hands and feet on different colored circles.

Legendary Comic and Impersonator Jonathan Winters Dies at Age 87 … RIP

The death of true comedy …

Legendary comic and impersonator Jonathan Winters has passed away at his home in Montecito, California at age 87. The world just got a little less funny with his passing. Jonathan Winters was simply hysterical. Remember an era of comedy that was not mean spirited, laced with profanity and witty, neither do I. But during Winters’ era it was.  Winters was a comic genius who could switch in and out of character impersonations like we switch a light switch or today’s generations change their Facebook status, tweet or text. Winters inspired generations of improve comics, probably none better than Robbin Williams. And as fate would have it, Winters would later have a role on Williams’ popular TV show ‘Mork & Mindy’ VIDEO) as his son Merth. However,  I remember Winters best for his role in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Just priceless comedy. The gas station scene (VIDEO) with Winters and Fred Silver … just too funny. This movie just never gets old. And who can forget when Jonathon Winters was a special guest crime solving with the Scooby Doo gang (VIDEO) where he played himself, Jonathan Winters, the not so famous comedian, hahaha. We shall miss you.

Jonathan Winters, November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013 - RIP

VIDEO: CNN 

 NY Times Obit.

Mr. Winters was at his best when winging it, confounding television hosts and luckless straight men with his rapid-fire delivery of bizarre observations uttered by characters like Elwood P. Suggins, a Midwestern Everyman, or one-off creations like the woodland sprite who bounded onto Jack Paar’s late-night show and simperingly proclaimed: “I’m the voice of spring. I bring you little goodies from the forest.”

A one-man sketch factory, Mr. Winters could re-enact Hollywood movies, complete with sound effects, or create sublime comic nonsense with simple props like a pen-and-pencil set.

The unpredictable, often surreal quality of his humor had a powerful influence on later comedians like Robin Williams but made him hard to package as an entertainer. His brilliant turns as a guest on programs like “The Steve Allen Show” and “The Tonight Show” — in both the Jack Paar and Johnny Carson eras — kept him in constant demand. But a successful television series eluded him, as did a Hollywood career, despite memorable performances in films like “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “The Loved One” and “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.”

Jonathan Winters roasts Johnny Carson

Jonathan Winters on the Jack Paar Show from 1964