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\u201cThe View\u2019s\u201d Joy Behar, no fan of President Trump, claimed that he is jealous of former President Barack Obama and offered a rosy picture of Obama\u2019s presidency. Behar made the comments on the show\u2019s \u201cBehind the Table\u201d podcast after addressing comedy filmmaker Judd Apatow\u2019s remarks that comedy during President Trump\u2019s tenure is hard to make given that the administration is \u201cso cruel.\u201d \u201cIf you look at what\u2019s happening in the world, it\u2019s stranger than Dr Strangelove. Characters in our country are more ridiculous than characters in Kubrick\u2019s film, so what can comedy do? The Trump administration is hard to be exaggerated in a sketch, so it\u2019s a difficult moment for political comedy,\u201d he told The London Times<\/em><\/a> while promoting his Mel Brooks documentary, \u201cThe 99 Year Old Man.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult and so cruel that there\u2019s not a lot of humor in it. Indeed, sometimes I think things have become so serious that, maybe, it\u2019s a moment for us not to joke about it and to instead have a bit more energy to fight for our values,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Behar agreed. \u201cWhen Obama came in, it was nice. There was nothing to make fun of,\u201d insisted Behar. \u201cIt was… things were going well for eight years. We didn’t have to… we could talk about our husbands again. We could talk about our mothers-in-law. And now it’s serious again, but it’s too serious now.\u201d Behar has often compared the two presidencies, insisting in July that\u00a0 President Trump is jealous of President Obama. \u201cThe thing about [President Trump] is he’s so jealous of Obama, because Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married, and can sing Al Green’s song ‘Let’s Stay Together’ better than Al Green. And Trump cannot stand it,\u201d she stated. The White House pushed back<\/a>, with White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers\u00a0calling Behar an \u201cirrelevant loser.\u201d \u201cJoy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,\u201d said Rogers. \u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that\u00a0The View<\/em>\u2019s ratings hit an all-time low last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lack of comedic material during President Obama\u2019s time in office has not gone unnoticed. While comedians Key and Peele are best-known for mocking the former President, as well as a spot-on impression from former SNL <\/em>alum Jay Pharoah, there is little else to go on. Even Reddit threads<\/a> pondering the lack of material, with some posting that President Obama\u2019s more polished behavior, especially after the bumbles of President George W. Bush, protected him. Others, however, have accused the media, which tends to lean liberal, of shielding him. \u201cIn a new book, \u2018Politics Is a Joke!\u2019 three academics tabulated 100,000 jokes told by late-night comics over the last 20 years. They found that in 2008 only six percent of the jokes were about Obama (Palin attracted nearly as many jokes in four months as a public figure as he did all year). And those jokes had a tendency to be about as barbed as cotton candy,\u201d wrote Kyle Smith in 2014<\/a>, noting that the GOP got jabbed twice as much. SNL\u2019s <\/em>Jim Downey even offered a small rebuke at the time, stating the show had become \u201can arm of the Hollywood Democratic establishment\u2026\u201d He went on to say, \u201cWe just stopped doing anything which could even be misinterpreted as a criticism of Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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