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The Capitol Steps look at the scandals in Washington and the rest of the country, at what people are willing to laugh about in our leaders and ourselves. Gauging what people find funny on the national scene these days, Sixteen Scandals offers a new perspective on such national affairs as Iran-Contra, Desert Storm, Bill Clinton's peccadilloes and how our nation keeps its sense of humor even during turbulent times.
Frolic through the era of "Dutch the Magic Reagan," recall the first George Bush in "A Thousand Pints of Lite," remember Bill Clinton with "The Joy of Sax" and "Libido Loca" and screech right into the present reign of The Big W with "Don't Go Faking You're Smart."
This hilarious book comes with one audio CD with 35 original parody songs and narration from the Capitol Steps, including their ever popular "Lirty Dies" routine. It also contains funny photos of the leaders of sixteen major stages in the life of our country.
The Capitol Steps are former Congressional staffers who started out making up parody songs for Senator Charles Percy's office Christmas party. (They were going to put on a nativity play, but in all of Congress, they couldn't find three wise men or a virgin.) Twenty years later, they have performed live for four presidents and have recorded 20 CDs of their songs.
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Austin Powers
reviewed Sixteen Scandals: 20 Years of Sex, Lies and Other Habits of Our Great Leaders on July 24, 2020
Sixteen Scandals
Three chapters and DONE.
Man, PJ O'Rourke used to be somebody. His work at National Lampoon was great, and the "High School Yearbook Parody" he helmed there is a high point in American humor. As a proto-neocon pundit, even when he was completely disagreeable, he remained a wit. Here he's going for Oliver Wendell Holmes but comes off as an open-mic comic crossed with Andy Rooney ("I hate cell phones! And people who use earpieces with their cellphones look like crazy people talking to themselves!") -- and his self-deprecating note in the TOC about this screed can't save it.
And not only has he become clueless to the popular culture (or the pop culture circa 1997, as he misspells Tupac Shakur), he can't even get the right name of someone in his camp (note: the female senator from North Carolina and wife of Bob Dole does not go by "Libby." No matter how many hits come up when you Google it). Things like that may seem nitpicky, but if someone (or his people) can't be bothered to get easily-verifiable things like that right, then I'm certainly not going to trust him to hold forth on complicated things like why the UN and Social Security are messes.
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