I don't think that's entirely true. It's not possible to make fun of that which their audience will find offensive. See Michael Richards, or 9/11 jokes for example.
Either way, Obama's flaws will become apparent after he takes office and people find out he's not doing a damn thing different than McCain would have done, and their lives aren't improving one bit. As soon as enough of the people (the audience) turns on him, it'll be easy.
They will just shrug their shoulders like they did when our nation's first black president, Clintigula, reigned.
"They all do it."
“I don’t think that’s entirely true. It’s not possible to make fun of that which their audience will find offensive. See Michael Richards, or 9/11 jokes for example.”
That’s absolutely spot-on. Comedians love to call themselves rebels; they love to pretend they don’t care what anyone thinks. They’re deluded. The job is all about pleasing people. Most comedians are entirely conventional. On the outer edges of convention, I’ll grant you, but conventional nonetheless. You don’t see many of them advocating child abuse, rape, or racism. And if they did, they wouldn’t really mean it.
What about shock value? Glad you asked. People like to be surprised. Humor is at least half about irony. However, shock is not the same as offense. No one likes to be offended. What the audience loves is to perceive that the comedian is offending other people. They want to believe that somewhere, maybe not in the audience that night but somewhere in the world, some especially prudish or senstive person could find offense in the jokes. If they themselves were in fact offended, I can tell you, they wouldn’t be enjoying themselves.