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You thought of Off Broadway?

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Or on for that matter?

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we gotta workshop it first

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Workshop it? Let me know where you office, then my secretary can note your secretary and we can lunch while we verb nouns for fun and profit!

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Love it, but it would be a doomed effort on Trump’s part. Archie’s bigotry was based on ignorance and misinformation rather than self-serving, cynical malice. Trump trying to channel Archie Bunker would be about as successful as the late Ugandan despot Idi Amin trying to channel Flip Wilson as Geraldine.

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They say Stephen Colbert's old Comedy Central show had conservative fans who didn't understand the principal joke but found it funny in the way they pretend to think Dennis Miller or Greg Gutfield are funny, only for real, thinking it was secretly aimed at them, genuine conservative comedy. Presumably because Colbert's such a real comedian, and communicates the funniness physically, so they knew where the laffs were.

Anyway, I can assure you that Archie Bunker had plenty of fans who agreed with his political positions and loved the show as if he were a real person instead of a scripted caricature, and believed he won all the arguments. I think it was to some extent on purpose (Norman Lear and Carroll O'Connor, liberals in the truest sense, didn't want viewers to think Archie was a *bad* person, because nobody's really bad, just misinformed, so it was built into the show that you could think of him as a good person). Many of Trump's over-55 voters, maybe all of them, are of that culture, and Trump has the same effect on them. To that extent, he's succeeded already.

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Oh thanks... now THAT’S gonna be in my head all day

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(Wait'll he finds out the Smithsonian *didn't* actually send over Archie Bunker's chair but rather Martin Crane's chair from "Frasier.")

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Well, Kelsey Grammar is a complete wingnut, so Trump might actually prefer that chair. (Or maybe he'd like the massage chair Niles and Fraser bought for Martin . . .)

https://youtu.be/h30gtsx9Z_0

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Ever notice that “tough on crime” conservatives like Grammer often need the Celebrity Kid Gloves treatment when they get caught doing stuff for which they’d lock other people up and throw away the key?

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Yes, I was thinking of Archie Bunker all through the middle of 2016 it was largely why I never wrote Trump off (except for three hours post-{the "Access Hollywood"} leak, I'll admit that).

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