How to tell when your obsessive love of eighties artists has turned into a problem.

What we have here is a short piece of political comedy. Maybe not as rave-worthy as Doonesbury at its best, or The Daily Show or Colbert Report, or a movie like The Candidate, but still perfectly enjoyable on that basis.

Or even if you don't think it's particuarly funny or acute politically, it does involve a couple of reasonably attractive people simulating fucking. And I'm not too proud to admit I can enjoy watching that kind of thing now and again.

But no. All I'm thinking about in watching the first half of this...



...is how the background music sounds like a version of Wham!/George Michael's classic "Careless Whisper," as done by Kenny G.

The first step is admitting it...

(Clip via Shakespeare's Sister, sometimes a pretty smart-mouthed political comedian herself)