Trying Too Hard

The good folks at NRO's The Corner are having a tough time coping with the Dems' success on night one. They promised more reactions after midnight and they delivered...with a consummately unfunny riff on Gigli. None of the Gigli blurbs even make sense in this context; and the point of one of them might be to compare Ben Affleck's politics to Saddam Hussein's and Hitler's, which doesn't mean that Barbara Comstock actually intends such an implication, but rather that she's hopelessly inept at comedy.

Has it really come to this for the NR crowd so soon? Did the actual politicians do so well that the cleverest thing they can come up with is a non-substantive dig at an actor?