He has been the world’s top stand up comedian for the past eight years but the curtain is about to come down on the career of George W Bush. The talent who gave us so many catchphrases that slipped into the public consciousness is about to disappear. We will not quickly forget phrases like Warren Turrr, Pepl of Evelyn Tent, Funny Mentalists and Sewer Side Bummers but where will the new comedy that musty follow him come from?

George W performed his last gig this week at New York's premier comedy club, the UN General Assembly and showed none of the magic has gone. In a set that appeared to be totally off the cuff and unrehearsed the old trouper showed he can still send the audience into hysterics by putting surreal interpretations on tragic setbacks. He knocked ‘em dead with lines like this as he looked back on the highlights of the last eight years:
“Two of my great triumphs were in turning Iraq and Afghanistan from tyrannies that sponsor terror into democracies that fight it.”

A mere comic journeyman like myself could never aspire to write lines like that. We’ll miss ya Dubya.

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