There is an eerie similarity of unreality in the lawsuit House Speaker John Boehner will lodge against President Obama over his “executive actions” and North Korea’s threats emanating from the forthcoming Seth Rogen and James Franco movie spoof, “The Interview.”

Who are they kidding? Boehner is suing because he doesn’t like Obama’s presidential actions and North Korea is threatening “merciless retaliation” if the Rogen-Franco comedy is released, as scheduled, in October. I’m not going to drink my prune juice unless I get to watch Judge Judy.

One hopes it is mere coincidence that the two huff-and-puff-and-blow-your-house-down threats came just a day apart. Fortunately, they combine to point out the fruitlessness and silliness of both threats.

Congressional leaders have taken offense at Presidents as far back as Henry Clay railing at Andrew Jackson over the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson maneuvered to scuttle the bank, which he regarded as a “den of vipers and thieves,” while Clay tried to salvage it with parliamentary maneuvers in Congress.

Henry Clay and his ally-in-arms, Daniel Webster, routinely denounced Jackson, who went so far as to pull U.S. assets out of the National Bank and deposit them in “pet” banks run by his supporters. Clay and Webster questioned Jackson’s constitutional authority, but the two legendary lawyers didn’t try to sue him.

Their debates and their struggle over presidential prerogatives became the fodder for non-fiction nook, not precedents in law books.

Boehner’s lawsuit against Obama may be his version of kabuki theater to entertain restive and raucous right-wing members of his House GOP caucus. Maybe it’s Boehner’s saner idea than undertaking impeachment of Obama for what amount to crimes against the Republican Party in Congress.

What makes the lawsuit seem so ridiculous is that it is being discussed while several more important issues are occurring, such as the Federal Highway Trust Fund running out of money and an escalation, if that is possible, of sectarian warfare in the Middle East, which could, if nothing else, push up gas prices and, at worst, drag America back into a military conflict.

The Nero-fiddling-during-the-fire syndrome always seems to fit the situation in North Korea, where the family dictatorship does all it can, and then some, to shield its citizens from outside influences. These outside influences could spoil the show of how well off North Koreans are, even if food is short and the only foreign visitor they see is Dennis Rodman.

The Rogen-Franco spoof has the duo, in the roles of journalists, which in itself is barely believable, plotting an assassination of Kim Jong-un. This unlikely conspiracy was branded by the North Korean Foreign Ministry as “reckless U.S. provocative insanity.” It goes on to say, “The act of making and screening such a movie that portrays an attack on our top leadership is a most wanton act of terror and act of war.”

I guess the Foreign Ministry is out of the loop and missed “Air Force One,” in which a U.S. President, portrayed by Harrison Ford, is kidnapped by terrorists from Kazakhstan who have snatched nuclear weapons from the defunct Soviet Union. It wasn’t a comedy.

Or the eHarmony ad spoof that wondered whether a dictator could ever find love and ends with his potential soul mate Peggy getting shot. http://youtu.be/qHkWv1vHtHk

Even accounting for the vast differences in culture, the North Korean reaction is way, way over the top.

Or as Rogen quipped, “Most people wait to see my movies before asking for their money back.”