There is a mathematical sequence that goes:
Comedy = Tragedy + Time
Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon was perhaps the lowest ebb of America's 200+ year history.
And yet, Nixon has definitely had the most hilarious Presidential after-existence in Pop culture.
Whether it's the Watergate farce "Dick," or the floating head of Nixon in a jar running for office on "Futurama," our 37th President's fictional incarnations are invariably the funniest of all the Presidents.
As are the RE-incarnations.
I laughed out loud at the first line of the new Bruce Cockburn song, which imagines Nixon reincarnated into less privileged (but more ironic) circumstances.
Instead of me spoiling the joke, you should head to Cockburn's website for a free preview of "Call Me Rose" from Bruce's forthcoming album.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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