Re: First Futurama "new" DVD announced

"Aaron Baugher" <aaron_baugher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "That Guy" <7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>> I've got nothing against Al Gore personally, but I just don't think
>> he's in any way funny.  In fact, he's sort of a humor-sink, sucking
>> all the humor out of a sphere 30 yards in radius with himself at the
>> center.
>
> There's plenty about Gore to make fun of, but the writers don't hammer
> him because they love the guy and his politics.

That's probably true.  Not to mention that he wouldn't be nearly as likely

to appear on the show if he was getting hammered.  On.

Still, I really don't think there is all that much about Gore to make fun 
of.  Some people are funny because they're natural buffoons and say
idiotic 
things, like Dubya.  Some people are funny because their buffonery
involves 
getting into idiotic situations, like Slick Willie.  The only jokes I've 
heard about Gore are all based on things that were made up (he never
claimed 
to have invented the internet, for example.)


> I'll give him credit
> for having some sense of humor about himself, but really, they've been
> there and done that.  From what I hear, he'll be back, though.
>
> Oh well, I don't care for Hermes or Zoidberg either except in very
> small doses, but I still love the show.


Thank you.  I feel exactly the same about those two.