Why Aren’t Liberals Funny?

I can’t answer that question, but for some reason it seems that many liberals have had their senses of humor surgically removed. A case in point is the New York Times, which wrote an obituary of a comic actor, which it concluded with one of the actor’s jokes. Only the Times changed the joke to make it…not funny. From the Times’s corrections section:

Because of an editing error, an obituary on Sunday about Sid Raymond, a comic actor, rendered one of his jokes incorrectly. It was about a son who sends a prostitute to his widowed father, still a self-proclaimed ladies

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