Today's proof that FHers can't do funny

Maryland House member Donna Edwards bombed so badly with her speech at the Washington Press Club Foundation annual dinner that even those inclined to share her worldview had to wince:

It was supposed to be a comedy – an annual ritual where a member of Congress entertains a wonky crowd of journalists, lawmakers, and all variety of political insiders with jokes you wouldn’t mind repeating to your mother.

But more people were wincing than laughing.

“I survived the Donna Edwards #wpcfdinner speech of 2014,” tweeted Mike Memoli, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times who sat through the fiasco.
Ed Henry, Fox News chief White House correspondent, retweeted him, and added the hashtag: #isitdoneyet?
Edwards’ speech, reportedly written by co-creator of The Daily Show, Lizz Winstead, might have sounded great on paper or in practice sessions in front of a friendly audience, but it came off as a Republican hate-fest sprinkled with the kind of sexual humor that made the buttoned-up crowd squirm – not laugh. It’s a reminder how hard it is to entertain a tough crowd, like one filled with cynical journalists.
At one point Edwards, a Democrat from Maryland, made the equivalent of a sexual battle cry to ladies in the room: “Come on, help me y’all: I want to give a really special shout out to Nancy Pelosi and all my sisters in the libido caucus — holla’!” she cried out, raising her hands above her head.
Reaction: blank stares and furrowed brows.

As Jerry Seinfeld said the other day - and caught hell from this crowd for having said it - thought control precludes a truly funny take on reality.  There's just no room in such a calcified environment.

Memo to Edwards: You can be grim, or you can be circumspect.  But the option of being funny is just not open to you until you give up that freedom-hatred stuff.