"No laughs, no peace"

Why, this seems just about right.

Sharpton told the Daily News in Saturday's editions that he is working with CBS on a pilot, tentatively named, "Al in the Family."

"It's about conflicting social and political views," Sharpton said. "There'll also be a social message."

He'll be wearing blackface?

The Democrat, who has also run for mayor of New York and the U.S. Senate, said one possible episode would have one of his TV children becoming a Republican.

That would be, I guess, the "Meathead" character. Otherwise known as Sean Hannity.

Politics and "entertainment" -- or some facsimile of what passes for entertainment these days -- make their way ever closer to a ghastly convergence.