Look, I don't care if you think "Wicked" is some kind of left-wing progressive spiel about the Bush years (apparently some do). This is comedy gold, I don't care who you are.
Oh. My. God.
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I've read "Wicked" and it's mostly goofy. Baum was illustrating that good is attractive while evil is unattractive, and Maguire utterly misses the point.
the Weiner parody, though, as you say, is the awesome.
I'll agree with you about the book. The show is significantly different (and wasn't written with Maguire's assistance as I understand it). The lessons are fairly simple: No one is quite what they seem, and no good deed goes unpunished. Oh, and I guess love conquers all, although I really don't want to think about a green girl and a straw man in the sack. But damn, there I go....
We saw the show before we read the book, and frankly, I read the book and the first sequel because I read everything. Sally did not read the sequel. She prefers to remember the show. We've seen it three times. Oy.
FWIW, I liken the difference between the book and the show in this case as very similar to my feelings about the book "The Natural" and the movie Robert Redford made from it. The book is a horrible thing to read, a dark dark morality play "ripped from the headlines" as it were. The movie, well, it's really one of the better things Redford's ever been associated with; it should have been called "The Redemption of Roy Hobbs".
With regard to the video above, I am absolutely thrilled that Jay Leno and Kristin Chenowith have the intestinal fortitude to rip a Democrat on national TV. I suspect Jay is a closet libertarian and I have no idea what Kristin's politics are, but I'm glad to see that Weiner isn't getting a free pass from either of them.