I'm sure some of you may remember Bob "Bobcat" Goldthwait the zany, spasmatic comic from the Police Academy movies.
Although he's an unabashed liberal ("I'm a leftwing lunatic...don't applaud that...there's a real thin line between comedy and dictatorship) but his jabs were comedy tinged with politics vs. politics tinged with comedy like, say, Al Franken.
The bottomline is that this specific performance in 1987, "Meat Bob", is a liberal performance that a conservative can laugh along with especially after he calms down a little and starts talking about his daughter ("Get in the house. We're gonna watch Police Academy 50. Yes again!) but it was the end that is really pro-life and touching.
After joking about how, with all the drugs he did (he's completely clean even then) chances were he was going to have a garbage pail kid with "eight arms, eight legs, 'Hi dad, I'm Mr. Party'" he ends with this (from memory):
"And everyone would say, 'As long as she's healthy.' And I thought to myself that maybe...if my daughter was sick or retarded that maybe I would have to learn patience and understanding and maybe I would have to stop thinking about my fabulous career. So when people again said 'as long as she's healthy' I said 'You know it doesn't matter...I will love her the way she is...(now the liberal tag) as long as she isn't a yuppy f&*K like you."
Just a couple other liberal bits that I still think are funny:
On guns in the house -
"...and you do need to protect yourself sometimes but the statistics are that if you have a gun in the house you are either gonna get shot with it by someone who breaks in or get liquored up and kill Mom. 'That's the worst meatloaf I've ever had in my life, Lady!'
On Reagan -
"So the airtarffic controllers went on strike and Reagan said 'I can fix this. Everyone on strike - you're fired!' So they just hired anyone hanging out at the time. There's like janitors and those hiring are like 'So have you ever played space invaders or something like that?'
"I can't blame Reagan for everything. Blaming Ronald Reagan for the way things are is like blaming Ronald McDonald when you get a bad cheeseburger. Neither of them run the company."
On rock music and suicide -
"So stupid 'My son listened to Ozzy Osbourne and then killed himself.' Well maybe your divorce and being on heroin might have something to do with it."
"...and we're really excited about the album because the record company thinks it will probably go...vinyl."
Any how he does go for the jugular and does cuss but overall he comes across as the liberal he is but there tend to be quite a few pleasant surprises especially the touching ending.
"And everyone would say, 'As long as she's healthy.' And I thought to myself that maybe...if my daughter was sick or retarded that maybe I would have to learn patience and understanding and maybe I would have to stop thinking about my fabulous career. So when people again said 'as long as she's healthy' I said 'You know it doesn't matter...I will love her the way she is...(now the liberal tag) as long as she isn't a yuppy f&*K like you."
That was a beautiful thing to say...and so very true.