“The Awful Truth” is most effective when it deals with large issues — like inviting the execs of an HMO who won’t pay for a dying man’s surgical procedure to his inevitable funeral, or the celebrated “Sodomobile” where gays and lesbians drive around in a giant pink Winnebago to southern states with sodomy laws still on the books. The show loses its edge with now dated, specific attacks — hard not to itch to fast forward through a fifteen minute piece mocking the dovish qualities of William Cohen. One cute bit, though, was the Michael Moore Home Set For Kids! A plastic mike and a Michael Moore mask are placed on a cute moppet, a power tie on another. Kid-as-Moore, “Why do you export jobs while making record profits?!?!” Kid-as-exec, “This is private property!” I nice moment of self-aware humor.