I've set my TiVo to record Will Ferrell's show tonight. It's a live telecast of the play he's been doing on Broadway, You're Welcome, America: A Final Night with George W. Bush. I've heard nothing but good things about it and since it was a limited run — closing tomorrow, I think — this is the one chance most of us will have to experience it.
I'll watch but I can't say I'm looking forward to it. Though I think Bush was a terrible and destructive prez, I haven't found lampoons of his personal style and bad speaking manner particularly funny. They more often evoke shock in me — our country (sort of) put this man in the White House, for Pete's sake — than laughter. There are times I even feel sorry for the guy being ridiculed like that. I know this is a contradiction and I'm not sure I can explain it…but I think the man is more deserving of criminal prosecution than of being depicted as Goober Pyle.