Donald Trump is gone. Now it's Herman Cain. Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry probably won't be far behind. It's depressing. The entertaining GOP candidates are leaving the party just as it's starting to get good. Who will be left? Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich? Maybe Ron Paul? What fun are those guys? The great late-night jokes which were uttered at these candidates' expense will be sorely missed. All I'll say is, please, reconsider resigning your campaigns, for me? For late-night talk show hosts everywhere? For comedians? It's been difficult for the Republican Party to outdo the eloquence of George W. Bush, but they've certainly been trying with the likes of Trump, Perry, Bachmann and Cain. I suppose the serious side of me should be happy that none of those four will be elected president in 2012. That's what I'll just have to keep telling myself as I watch the likes of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert telling jokes at the expense of politicians.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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