Move Over Funner - Las Vegas Has the Best Comedian Mayor

Back in 2017 the city of Funner, California became a reality.

...on May 18, a bit of Hollywood promotion took center stage when actor David Hasselhoff was officially inaugurated as Mayor of Funner. Quick to play his part, Hasselhoff announced, “When I was tapped to run for mayor, I knew I was the guy for the job because, honestly, who’s funner than The Hoff?”

Two years later and The Hoff was out as mayor and actor/comedian Rob Riggle stepped into The Hoff's shoes as mayor of what is essentially a casino resort.



OK.  Great publicity stunt for the Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission Indians who are the landlords of the Harrahs casino and resort.  But, after yesterday, I realize that it's not just Funner that has a comedian as mayor.   Carolyn Goodman, the mayor of Las Vegas gave us a masterclass in satire on CNN.  One that I would have expected to see on Onion TV.  She was stunning.  The most exquisite bit may have been her admission that she had volunteered Las Vegas to be the control group for a massive experiment in testing for a Covid-19 cure.  Not to be in the group getting the cure, but the group getting a placebo.

...I offered to be a controlled group, and what I was told by our state is, you can’t do that because people all from all parts of southern Nevada come in to work in the city,” she stated. “And I said, ‘Oh, that’s too bad because when you have a disease you have a placebo that gets the water and the sugar and those that actually get the shot.’ We would love to be that placebo side so you have something to measure against.”