Dan Quayle Won't Be Dancing with the Stars

Dan Quayle has dashed the hopes of comedians everywhere by declining an invitation to appear on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars. It's a damn shame, because if he'd been able to dance as well as he spells, it would have made for some highly entertaining television.

No doubt Quayle is busy with other important pursuits more befitting a former vice president of his stature, like jockeying to win the Nobel Prize for Golf.

Since Quayle won't be providing us with any new comic material, here are a few classic Quayle-isms to remember him by.

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• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident. #10: Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to "Oklobama"

• The popular online comic strip Get Your War On is now an animated series, presented by 23/6. As creator David Rees promises, "These animations will be like Hobbes' conception of life in the state of nature: 'nasty, brutish and short.'

• The Onion: Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Ways John McCain Can Appear More Youthful. #1: Never hurts to nail a few interns

• Revisit your favorite political gaffes with the Campaign Gaffe Remix, presented by 23/6

• The Washington Post has launched Comic Riffs, a new blog devoted to the comics fan.

• Paula Poundstone confesses to being shamefully ignorant about energy and the environment (23/6)

• Barack Obama is drawing more comedic attention following his overseas trip, reports the LA Times' Top of the Ticket, which cites some of the Obama jokes in my weekly roundup

• Our friend and fellow political satirist Mad Kane has been named the winner of the 2008 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor. Congrats Mad!

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