{"id":15563,"date":"2025-05-23T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15563"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:41:09","slug":"2025-05-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-05-25\/","title":{"rendered":"How about a little humor around politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/humanists.org_2025_05_25_Graham_Kay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15564\"\/><figcaption>Graham Kay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., May 25, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we explore some of the political humor out there. A skit that one person might think is the best, doesn&#8217;t seem funny to someone else. Isn&#8217;t that funny?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Final Days&#8221; White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Skit, 6 minutes long, from 2012. A president laughing at himself.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PbbUYhyoWz8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/PbbUYhyoWz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some old Mark Russell routines seem quite recent.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lSApwyHrsJE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/lSApwyHrsJE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Canadian Explains Why Trump Can&#8217;t Invade Canada. Everyone on the Program Committee thought this quite funny. 5 minutes.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pdLaAyZ0waI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/pdLaAyZ0waI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Republican or Not&#8221;, a 5-minute Saturday Night Live skit from 2022, is not anti-Republican.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8h_N80qKYOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/8h_N80qKYOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Obama&#8217;s Anger Translator&#8221;, as seen on C-SPAN. Another president having fun at his own expense. 5 minutes.<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HkAK9QRe4ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/HkAK9QRe4ds<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Attend in Person:<br>Attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the Neutra House Conference Center, 181 Hillview Ave, Los Altos, CA 94022. Lunch will be served after the forum. 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A skit that one person might think is the best, doesn&#8217;t seem funny to someone else. Isn&#8217;t that funny? &#8220;The Final Days&#8221; White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Skit, 6 minutes long, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-05-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How about a little humor around politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15563"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15575,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions\/15575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}