Comedian skewers Dubya brilliantly in his Broadway hit, You're Welcome America
NEW YORK–"Don't it always seem to go," asked Joni Mitchell, "that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?"
And – for better and for worse – that's how we feel about the man known as Dubya, a fact driven home with blinding clarity in Will Ferrell's current Broadway hit: You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush.
Like a head cold whose annoyance you can't really grasp until it's over, or an attack of intestinal incontinence whose magnitude isn't really clear until the cramping finally ceases, George W. Bush wreaked havoc on the health of the free world during the eight years he was in office, but it's only now, when we're finally free of him, that we can grasp the magnitude of the damage he inflicted.
That's the ultimate brilliance behind Ferrell's take-no-prisoners assault on the Kennebunkport Texan who turned the leadership of the greatest country in the free world into the lamest of jokes.
During the early years of Bush's first term in office, Ferrell, as a regular on Saturday Night Live, honed to a fine art the practice of skewering the man.
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