I'm never noticed Michael Moore to be brimming with wit, nor anything else, other than lard and hubris. His alleged wit is highly overpraised because critics agree with his political viewpoint, but a few of the more honest ones had to admit that his attempts at humor in "F9/11" fell embarrassingly flat. I write a syndicated topical humor service for radio stations, and if any junior writer had brought me an idea for a sketch in which Bush and Blair were cowboys from "Bonanza" riding off to shoot up Iraq, I would have told him that "cowboy" wheeze is the biggest cliche around, and to come back when he had an original idea.
Michael Moore and Bill Maher have that in common: the more radically politicized they've become, the less funny they've become, until it's hard to remember they ever used to be considered amusing.
i've never liked bill maher... back on politically incorrect he was a pompous asshole. and now, he's a pompous asshole. he knows absolutely nothing about politics and yet, the media still listens to him and asks his opinion. he was on leno the other night and they had a conversation about bush and it was abhorrent.