What Joe can teach Jeff about humor

The pressure of churning out weekly sermons has finally gotten to the RTD’s Jeff Schapiro. His latest entry is an attempt at humor. Regrettably, Jeff’s treatment of poor Clement Moore’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas” will never be described as funny. Torture porn perhaps. But even that’s being generous.

For real humor in the local rag, we have to turn to the news pages where, once again, Fightin’ Joe Morrissey takes pride of place. The putative Henrico county power broker received the improbable news that he would be allowed to get his law license back if he gets a “…scaled score of 85 or higher on a professional responsibility examination, and show[s] that he has had 60 hours of continuing legal education in the past five years.”

But even these conditions are too much. Joe wants his license back now — no strings attached.

His attitude is a masterful take on Veruca Salt.

So take a lesson from Joe, Jeff. Keep the parodies short, on point and unintentional.

Just like you do every other week of the year.

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Norman Leahy

Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Examiner contributor.