Full disclosure: 1) The hardworking staff used to write commentaries for Marketplace; 2) We know and like Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland; 3) Marketplace consistently produces good radio.

But . . .

This weekend’s edition of Marketplace Money featured two commentaries as part of a series of humor pieces the show is featuring in its 2012 election coverage.

This year, as part of our election coverage, Marketplace is asking comedians what they think about the issues. We’ll be doing short bits by both underground and mainstream comics. Yes, the issues in this election are important and serious, but who says we can’t have a little fun?

Unfortunately, both pieces were entirely predictable and entirely humorless.

Brian Donovan’s Why I’m voting for Mitt Romney was just run-of-the-mill humorless.

But Andy Kindler’s Why I’m voting for Barack Obama was spectacularly unfunny, a total cliché-fest that featured not one original thought.

We’re all for a little fun in election coverage.

But is it too much to ask that it be, well, funny?