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Sunday 29 June 2008 | 22:28 AEDT
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Comedy is all about delivery. It's relatively common that a funny line is delivered in such a way that it loses its humour. The flip side is that if you get the delivery of a serious statement wrong enough, it can become unintentionally funny. And there have been two examples of this that emerged from the US election doing the rounds online. The first is a campaign ad for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Contrast the message with the delivery and you have comedy gold. In fact, it's so golden that Saturday Night Live decided to put it to air unedited because it was funny enough to stand on its own. See what you think:

 

 

It's Mike Brady!

But probably my favourite is this one from the Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain during one of the Republican party debates. Just watch his face after he delivers some particularly weighty rhetoric. This, too, found its way onto US comedy shows, and is hilariously treated here by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show:

 

 

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

 

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Added 26 Jul 2008 15:02 AEST

Jay from Perth


The US elections have taken on epic proportions, even biblical. This piece of satire is quite funny. check it out http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece

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Added 19 Jul 2008 14:12 AEST

XDfunny from canberra


no more space h. The content of comedy deals with breaking some taboo in the prevailing mythologies of a culture, thereby creating a certain amount of shock. Consequently the primary motivations of the characters are disreputable. In American culture the most common taboos are sex, religion, politics, and crime or disaster; so those are the primary subjects of humor. In other words, whatever we are not supposed to laugh at - that's what we laugh at. The subject-matter must arouse a certain amount of anxiety,a

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Added 18 Jul 2008 9:20 AEST

Kat from Sydney


He said she said Okay Hilarious. Just funny. It's like what I've heard. They say all these stupid things. Who really cares anymore. It's just like chinese whispers at my school. Alot of he said, she said. It's funny all the kids that pretend to be experts on this subject get there information from him or her. It's actually quite said because when you get to there end. There's I got it off the internet is garinteed somewhere.P.S. Thursday is named after Thor. Thors-day.Little bit of trivia.

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Added 07 Jul 2008 19:36 AEST

j from c


speaking of comedy did you hear about the scandinavian god that eeverry body liked.it was thor.thor he's a jolly good fellow,thor he's a jolly good fellow,that no body could deny. all my own material.maybe sbs could give us camden farmers a show of our own .wadderya recken wazzz.

 

WA says: Oh dear.  Maybe a few seasons on community TV might be in order first.


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Added 03 Jul 2008 7:07 AEST

nomad from Melbourne


SBS off air when Muslims r on...what could that mean?? (hehe) Waleed is it easy to get to watch u guys live, coz Ive sent an e-mail in a few weeks ago and still no reply.

 

WA says: I don't look after the audience stuff, so I'm not sure what happened, but I do know we have way more requests for audience than we had space to fit them, so it hasn't been that easy to get tickets.  Sorry about that!


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Added 02 Jul 2008 22:21 AEST

Grumpy Viewer from Sydney CBD


SBS (SalamCafe) off air in Sydney CBD!

I have tried to watch SalamCafe last week at 10pm and for some reason SBS was off air. I am trying to watch SalamCafe again right now....and guess what, its off air! This is irritating!

 

WA says: This is very strange.  I have no idea why that's happening.  Is it something unique to your reception or your area?  Or is it Sydney-wide?


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Added 02 Jul 2008 21:02 AEST

Kiyaz from Melbourne


Dr That was hilarious, thumbs up from me... John McCain hahahahaha i liked his famous after that speech, americans dnt even know what they talking about.

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Added 02 Jul 2008 16:12 AEST

Andrea S from Brisbane


HAHAHA thats pretty funny waleed. your posts have kept me entertained during work hours. my boss wouldn't like you. i love uncle sam. and nazeem is so funny with his one liners at the coffee machine. LOL @ Mike Brady!!!

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Added 01 Jul 2008 12:56 AEST

AE from Sydney


Oh my how funny! Thanks for the post, that smile was priceless. Keep up the great work! Salam

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Added 01 Jul 2008 12:04 AEST

Joanna from Adelaide


McCain's going to follow Osama bin Laden to hell... not a truer statement made. Congratulations Salam Cafe, I've enjoyed watching the show improve over the last few weeks.

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Added 01 Jul 2008 11:37 AEST

nomad from melbourne


haha lol, thx waleed that was funny...rnt they embarassed after they say what they say lol

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Added 01 Jul 2008 10:30 AEST

CC from NSW


hahahahahahhaha. Ahhhhhh McCain you've done it again. lol.

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Added 30 Jun 2008 21:44 AEST

shazza from home


haha very funny gota love it. ps salam cafe rox my socks. God bless!

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