Like, Marion Barry was funny for a while, but we don't do him on the road. And jokes about Dick Gephardt fall flat because, even though he's run for president, people don't feel like they know him. People laugh about what they know. The beauty about the Lewinsky scandal, she says, is that everybody knows about it. The challenge is to play off its ironies and absurdities without dragging the level down even further.
Nothing's easier than shock humor.
Much harder is to present a really funny show about all this that we can also take before the IBM annual dinner. But there is a way of playing off that without getting more specific. Strauss and Newport say. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandals, they insist, haven't begun to peak in the nation's funny bone. It's just gonna go on and on.