I’m a few days late in commenting on this, but the jokes were too good to pass up, so here’s a bit of humor on your Monday morning. Last week Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, and Joe Francis, the creator of Girls Gone Wild, announced that they would be approaching Congress for their own economic stimulus package. According to CNN:

“The take here is that everyone and their mother want to be bailed out from the banks to the big three,’ said Owen Moogan, spokesman for Larry Flynt. “The porn industry has been hurt by the downturn like everyone else and they are going to ask for the $5 billion.”

OK, seriously? The jokes just write themselves on this one: Porn industry seeks hand outs for hand jobs. With porn sales going soft, producers look for fluff job. How about the new DVD – Congressional Representatives Gone Wild? (Actually, I doubt that would sell . . . oh, sad!)

I’m pro porn, but I’m anti Hustler and Girls Gone Wild. They’re not even the good kind of porn. Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are serious scum. They even admit in the CNN article that “the industry itself is in no financial danger ‘” DVD sales have slipped over the past year, but Web traffic has continued to grow.” I get that everyone wants their own piece of government pie, but Francis will most likely use the money to pay for all of his legal problems.

Porn star Stormy Daniels is making the most of a depressed economy. According to Business Week:

Daniels, who began her career as a stripper, said that many women who act in pornographic films are spending more time making personal appearances at strip clubs to make extra cash.

She said that Internet piracy means more people know who she is than ever before and come to her personal appearances, but a bad economy means she’s not making more money as a result.

“They’re spending less money per person but there’s more people,” she said. “I’m fortunate in that I end up kind of breaking even.”

I guess it’s a sign of the economic times when people eliminate smut from their budgets. But let’s be honest, I’m not really feeling too bad for Larry Flynt and Joe Francis. You don’t see Hugh Heffner approaching Congress for a stimulus package (he he, I said package . . .), so clearly this is a matter of how you choose to blow your wad.

I told you the jokes wrote themselves on this one.