In which the pond goes searching for Kenny potential in the cawing Crowe and the Oz editorialist, and ends up in the Mooch circus ...

Point of order m'lud. While the pond deeply appreciates the poodle's attempt to introduce North Korea and Godwin's Law into the conversation, as everyone knows the real comedy heat is going down in the United States ...

The Mooch has been a stunning coup, and made poor old Spicey seem like a good riddance warm-up act. The only downside? That bloody song the pond has always disliked keeps running through the pond's head, and the thunder and the lightning is very, very frightening ...

There's nothing for the pond in that fertile ground. The best professionals are to hand and every night a parade of stand-up comedy and cable news delights and entertains the pond. Sure the United States and the world is going to hell by way of handcart and the Donald, but what fun getting there ...

For those outside the US showbiz loop, recent Variety front page stories might have zipped off into the ether, but the pond honours Stephen Colbert's 'Russia Week' Lifts 'Late Show' to Biggest Weekly Win Ever ... well with a mad Russian axe-throwing billionaire oligarch, a crazy late night show talk host, a visit to the pee pee bed, and sundry street performances, how could it go wrong?

And that was followed by the news this day in Variety Donald Trump Animated Series from Stephen Colbert Headed to Showtime ...

But the pond had to ankle this fun ... the competition's too strong.

Now the reptiles of Oz did attempt a few high comedy routines, of the standard Xian kind ...

And they had the arm-breaker to hand in case a few Eastern suburbs or Mosman arms needed breaking ...

But perversely the pond decided to look at the way a few low rent spoilsports at the lizard Oz are obsessed with Comrade Bill and him being Jeremy lite ...

Sure it would be funnier to get poked in the eye with a sharp Donald stick, but the pond freely acknowledges that it doesn't spend nearly enough time with the cawing Crowe ...

Attention should be paid ... who knows, one day, instead of stoning the Crowe, the pond might be celebrating the way he became a serious contender for a Kenny ...

This day he made a good start by briefly being at the top of the digital opinion page, with old favourites like the bromancer and the dog botherer nowhere to be seen ...

Won't someone think of the children, the pond could hear Helen Lovejoy cry ...

Did someone mention Tamworth?

Oh lost wasted days of youth. That produce store became a tyre store, with the smell coating the Jaffas in the darkened theatre, and the miracle is that the pond grew up a leather fetishist rather than a rubber lover ...

But hang on, how did the pond get there?

Well to tell you the truth, the pond quite drifted off. The cawing Crowe has got a long way to go to score a Kenny, and the reptiles are on the back foot, what with the guv'nor having gone feral ...

Strewth, a bloody socialist commie Jeremy-lover in charge of the big bank? Why he would have been drummed out of Tamworth in a barrel of finest Barners' lard ...

Human Services Minister Alan Tudge also joined the argument last week when, in a speech, he refused to increase the value of welfare payments. He said government should target the “pathways to poverty” rather than trying to solve “modern poverty” by giving more money to the unemployed. 
It is cold comfort for Australians who are out of work, struggling to get pay rises and secure jobs, eking out an existence on poverty-level welfare, and trying to keep pace with house prices and power bills. 
The anger at Mr Morrison and Mr Tudge rivalled the moment Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce dismissed the housing affordability crisis as “bullsh*t”. Social media and online comments sections have branded them “arrogant” or worse. (New Daily, here).

Point of order m'lud, the pond knows how to spell bullshit, and it knows how to pivot to another serve of the cawing Crowe ... as he proves that paranoia is now the state of mind at the lizard Oz ...

Say what? All the work of the lizard Oz undone? All the Kennys competed for, and hard won, and yet boardsurfing Comrade Bill is riding the wave of reality and actual inequality to the election?

How unfair is that?

Who'd have guessed it?

Well certainly not the Oz editorialist, in a desperate rearguard action this day...

Like the cawing Crowe, the pond never pays enough attention to the real heart of the darkness ...

Yes, the reptiles have got the Corbyn fear ... and Comrade Bill is looming ... and only the French clock lover is on hand to save them.

The paranoia's now palpable, and infests the broadsheet like leeches in the Peel river, and about the only interesting thing to take away from these two efforts is the way they can sense all their valiant work and Kenny awards have been in vain ...

It's a shame really, and after all the good work their American cousins at Fox did for the cause of comedy, as celebrated by Rowe, with more Rowe here ...

And now for those who want to get back to the real circus, check out the Mooch in The New Yorker's Anthony Scaramucci called me to unload about White House Leakers. Reince Preibus, and Steve Bannon, and for those who missed it, here's Colbert's first Mooch impression ... with other Colbert easy to find here.