[spetznaz]

It's sad but true ...sometimes genius comes with its twin brother insanity. As someone else said,Chappelle respected the office of the president and thus would not attack President Bush even when it was fashionable to do so.

Off tangent, on President Bush - isn't it interesting how even a movie was made on what his assassination would be like, and how he was always drawn looking slightly apish ....yet make a similar movie about Obama and it's your hide, or for that matter draw Obama in any manner similar to that which they drew President Bush and see what happens to you. Those are some stark double standards.

[wideawake]

The double standard is clear.

There is no way you could criticize the President the way people criticized President Bush.

I think part of Chappelle's reticence to do anti-Bush comedy was (1) its time-bound nature - topical humor ages very quickly and (2) he was clearly very uncomfortable doing jokes that everyone else was doing - that's a sign of mediocrity.

The one Bush skit he did - interestingly in the context of your comment - was one called "Black Bush", i.e. an alternate universe in which President Bush was African-American.

It was completely unlike every other Bush joke/skit at the time and one that was not obviously anti-Bush.