Les Jones

I assume you think this is funny, so could you explain what about it is funny? Cause I can't even figure out what his point is, much less see what's supposed to be humorous. I've read it over and over, and I'm completely at a loss. What does Richard Gere have to do with the tsunami and the UN?

He did do a really good job of ripping off Doonesbury's style, though, so +1 point there.
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Wait, I just did a search for "Richard Gere"+tsunami. It turned up 29,500 hits, all of which seem to be right-wing bloggers frothing at the mouth about some commercial he did, which apparently no one else in this country other than them has ever heard of. After reading the cartoon about 4 or 5 more times, I finally think I see the point. Hee-larious. I think I've seen this guy's strips before. Is he like the un-official official wingnut cartoonist or something?

Conservative cartoonists and comedians are the Christian rock of humor. In the past few years, they've started to get the style of various successful humorists down pretty well (Right wing Doonesbury clone - check. Right wing Onion clone - check. Right wing This Modern Life clone - check). But so far, they haven't yet been able to figure out the all-important "funny" part.

Other than Trey Parker/Matt Stone and P.J. O'Roarke, and, if you really want to stretch the defition of funny, Dennis Miller, I'm really having a hard time thinking of anyone. The best that I've seen is hipster-irony, Lileks-style "All liberals, and the entirety of their lives and actions, are just disgustingly pathetic" libertarian sneering, which in small doses can be amusing, but it gets old really really quick.

I think you've already figured it out, but for anyone who hasn't the strip is refering to this Richard Gere commercial in which he says "Hi, I'm Richard Gere and I'm speaking for the entire world." So basically the UN and Richard Gere both think they're the voice of the world. Enjoy the laffs.

As far as funny conservatives bloggers there's Jim Treacher and Jeff Goldstein (though he's funny weird as often as he's funny ha-ha). Too bad Allah's not blogging anymore. Oh, and Scott Ott, who's actually somewhat balanced.

FWIW, I thought The Lemon (the conservative version of The Onion) was fairly funny, but not necessarily worthwhile. It's not like The Onion is wildly liberal. Do they make fun of Bush a lot? Yeah. Is Bush the current resident of the White House and therefore a logical person to make fun of? Yeah. Well there you go.

i personally like blame bush.

http://blamebush.typepad.com/

and was glad bush won so he would have stuff to blog about