How many people actually did the exercises katydee suggested? I know I didn't.

katydee, perhaps you could take a semi-random sample of things in relevant reference classes (politicians/organizations) and demonstrate how easy it is to make fun of them? Otherwise I suspect many people will take you for your word that things are easy to make fun of.

Here's my semi-random sample of organizations and politicians. I'll take the most recent 3 Daily Show guests I recognize the names of and the largest 3 charities I recognize the names of.

• Richard Dawkins

• Chelsea Clinton

• Robert Reich

• Salvation Army

• American National Red Cross

• American Cancer Society

Here are my brief attempts to make fun of them.

• Richard Dawkins: He wasn't satisfied with being an eminent biologist, he just had to stir up controversy by provoking religious people. And his arguments apparently aren't even very philosophically sound. Stick to biology next time, Dawkins.

• Chelsea Clinton: Good luck finding a man who's higher status than you to marry.

• Robert Reich: Is he liberal because he's short or is he short because he's liberal?

• Salvation Army: Ineffective charity that spreads religious lies. Chumps.

• American National Red Cross: We're all going to die eventually anyway. Organizations like the Red Cross just prolong our misery.

• American Cancer Society: Clearly cancer is just a side effect of aging and your money is better sent to SENS. Also, just how much money have we poured in to cancer research without finding a cure yet? They should call it the "American Cancer Researcher Welfare Program".

It seems to me that the things I can make fun of the most easily are the ones that have legitimate arguments that reflect poorly on them (e.g. the Salvation Army and American Cancer Society). But maybe I'm just bad at making fun of things.