LAUGHING MATTERS.

• Date: 01 October 2020
• Author: Higgins, Maeve

When The Wall Street Journal writes about comedy, you know it's going to be funny. Not intentionally funny, of course, but funny.

Not long ago, the paper ran an opinion piece by Matthew Hennessey, a member of its editorial staff. It was titled, "Jim Gaffigan, Donald Trump, and the Death of Laughter." I mean, the drama of the headline alone is hilarious to me!

The writer was mad at Jim Gaffigan, an affable and very talented stand-up comic, for expressing his feelings about the President. Gaffigan is not a Trump fan, and earlier that week he had tweeted his criticism, particularly concerning Trump's constant lying and the hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths under his watch.

As one of Gaffigan's 3.2 million Twitter followers, I saw those tweets. They were truthful and angry, and didn't make me laugh. Fine by me, but not by The Wall Street Journal.

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