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• Stephen Colbert plans to take his show on the road and broadcast from the Persian Gulf
• Watch an amusing YouTube video featuring kids talking back to Bobby Jindal and proving they're smarter than the Louisiana governor
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Ways the GOP Can Become More Hip: #1. Fewer reactionary old white guys
• Borowitz Report: In New Terror Video, AIG Demands Huge Ransom from U.S.
• Bill Maher takes on Madoff and Michael Steele, and says Bobby Jindal should be in jail
• Sesame Street explains the Madoff scandal
• Michelle Obama is poised to become a superhero when a biographical comic book hits the stands next month
• Jon Stewart tears apart CNBC's Jim Cramer during an appearance on The Daily Show, saying, "I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a f***king game."
• After a successful Broadway run, HBO is set to air Will Ferrell's Bush tribute, "You're Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush." Watch a promotional clip from the HBO special," which premieres Saturday March 14 at 9 p.m. ET.
• Former SNL cast member and noted idiot Victoria Jackson declares on FOX Noise that Obama is a communist and that Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Sean Hannity should run the country.
• The fairytale romance between Bristol Palin and Babydaddy Levi has come to an end. Apparently that "Bristol" tattoo on Levi's ring finger wasn't such a good idea after all.
• Jon Hamm from Mad Men stars as Lex Luthor petitioning for a bailout in a new spoof video presented by Funny Or Die
• Jon Stewart rips CNBC and Jim Cramer again
• SNL highlight: RNC Chairman Michael Steele receives electric shocks for saying things not approved by Rush Limbaugh
• Ann Coulter and Bill Maher spar in a debate at Radio City Music Hall in New York
• Watch Rush Limbaugh address the nation in this spoof video presented by Funny Or Die
• Watch Bill Maher's ode to government
• Jon Stewart trashes CNBC again -- on Letterman
• Jon Stewart eviscerates CNBC in this must-see Daily Show segment. The money quote: "Wow! If I'd just listened to CNBC I'd have a million dollars today, provided I started with a hundred million dollars."
• Watch the 15 best news bloopers of all time, presented by the Huffington Post
• Onion News Network video: Congressman Offers Preemptive Apology For Extramarital Affair
• Borowitz Report: Limbaugh Rooting for Planet to Explode
• Catch highlights from the premiere of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, including his slow jam of the news
• Jon Stewart sounds off on the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which the GOP faithful derided veterans and called for the annihilation of an American city to save us from unpatriotic Democrats.
• Doonesbury mocks the way media elebrities use Twitter in a series of comic strips this week.
• Old Man Jon Stewart shakes his fist at Twitter as Samantha Bee attempts to explain why so many people are tweeting
• Duly quoted: "Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. His whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it's incendiary. Yes, it's ugly." --RNC Chairman Michael Steele
"I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership." --Steele, two days later
"I realized words that I said weren't what I was thinking. It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently." --Steele, in a further clarification (hat tip to Doonesbury.com)
• David Letterman calls Rush Limbaugh a "bonehead" and makes Katie Couric laugh and cringe
• Stephen Colbert challenges Michael Steele to a freestyle rap discussion
• Kenneth The Page responds To Bobby Jindal comparison on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"
• There is no denying it: Bobby Jindall is Kenneth the Page from "30 Rock"
• Jay Leno is on trial for penning his own monologue jokes during the writer's strike
• The Coen Brothers mock clean coal in new ad
• Watch Nancy Pelosi clapping like a caffeinated seal during Obama's address to Congress
• Is Jon Stewart the George W. Bush of Oscar hosts? Comparing Hugh Jackman's historic rise to Barack Obama's history victory, Daily Show correspondent John Oliver says both men came to power because of the incompetence of their predecessors.
• Watch Obama's Elf, possibly the worst pun of all time
• See a slide show of political figures sleeping in public, courtesy of the Huffington Post
• Rupert Murdoch apologizes for the New York Post's controversial chimp cartoon, saying "The buck stops with me."
• Borowitz Report: U.S. Nationalizes Illinois Senate Seat
• Marijuana legalization has proven to be more popular than key conservative leaders
• Watch highlights from Conan O'Brien's final "Late Night" episode, including an appearance by Will Ferrell as George W. Bush
• Bill Maher says we should hang the bankers in his latest installment of "New Rules"
• George W. Bush has been offered a job as a greeter at a Texas hardware store
• Bristol Palin says abstinence is "not realistic," despite what mom says
• Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert compete in an invisible string dance off
• After getting hammered by criticism for running an idiotic cartoon likening Obama to a rabid chimpanzee who should be shot, the New York Post has half-apologized
• CNN's Zain Verjee loves penis, err, peanuts. Watch her hilarious on-air blooper.
• Dan Aykroyd returns to Saturday Night Live for a skit mocking GOP opposition
• Take a look at the 17 most violent political brawls, courtesy of Cracked.com
• Comedian Lee Camp shows us how the New York Post monkey cartoon should have looked
• Satirical Political Report: Danish Cartoonists Riot Over NY Post 'Chimp Cartoon'
• In response to Ben & Jerry's "Yes Pecan!" Obama ice cream flavor, a joke email making the rounds suggests some hilarious possibilities for a Bush flavor
• Idiotic quote of the week: "When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That's just history." --Rep. Steve Austria (R-OH), unaware that the Great Depression began in 1929 and that Roosevelt didn't take office until 1933. As Keith Olbermann quipped, "The only great depression at the moment is the one between Congressman Austria's ears."
• President Obama bangs his head boarding Marine One, and YouTube provides some unintentionally hilarious contextual advertising
• In keeping with the latest viral phenomenon, we present 25 Random Things About Barack Obama
• Atom.com presents an educational video about Barack Obama's stimulus package (not safe for work)
• Daily Show correspondent John Oliver goes to the White House and attends a press briefing
• Jon Stewart rips Bill O'Reilly on hypocrisy over privacy
• Barack Obama makes an unfortunate reference to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist grabbing a hose
• Hillary Clinton ditches a kiss from Bill for Barack
• Jon Stewart compares White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to his Bush-era predecessors
• Rod Blagojevich appears on the Letterman show, where Letterman tells him, "The more you talked, and the more you repeated your innocence, the more I said to myself, 'Oh, this guy is guilty.'"
• Saturday Night Live highlights: President Obama gets nostalgic, Rod Blagojevich sets the record straight, and New York Gov. David Patterson talks about his Senate appointment
• A lap-dancing Condoleezza Rice -- and her red panties - steals Will Ferrell's Bush show
• President Obama cracks jokes about Rahm Emanuel, his Blackberry, and more at the annual Alfalfa Club dinner
• The Onion: Cheney Dunk Tank Raises $800 Billion For Nation
• Duly quoted: "The bowling alley doesn't seem to be improving my game, that's the one thing I noticed." --President Obama, on living in the White House
• President Obama mistakes a window for a door at the White House, conjuring wistful memories of President Bush
• Former President George H.W. Bush floors Bill Clinton with a joke about the ugliest woman he ever saw
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard At The Meeting Between Barack Obama and the Republicans. #2: "Sir, it's refreshing to have a chief executive who speaks in complete sentences."
• SNL's Seth Meyers reflects on the election during an appearance on Letterman and talks about whether Joe Biden will be the next Sarah Palin
• Stephen Colbert engages in a hilarious faux exchange with Bill O'Reilly over rumors about Caroline Kennedy.
• Borowitz Report: Poll: Obama Even More Awesome Than Originally Thought
• Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert dissect Barack Obama's interview on Arabic TV, with Colbert reporting that the president has been kidnapped by Muslim extremists.
• The Onion: Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24
• Aretha Franklin's inauguration hat has taken over the world
• Check out our inaugural humor parade ushering in the age of Barack Obama
• Watch High-Five Inauguration, featuring Jack Black, Sarah Silverman, Howard Dean, and others giving some skin. (Presented by Funny Or Die)
• Dave Barry gets into the inaugural spirit
• Watch inauguration coverage from The Daily Show and Colbert Report
• Writers for The Daily Show, Colbert and Letterman concur: Obama presidency will lead to the end of comedy
• Gawker presents a primer on how to make fun of Barack Obama
• Obama Girl and Obama sing a duet in the latest video by Barely Political
• View a series of cartoons about Barack Obama's inauguration and George Bush's departure
• Ann Coulter gives an impassioned defense of George Bush on SNL's "Weekend Update."
• David Letterman takes one last look back at Great Moments in Presidential Speeches
• Appearing on The Daily Show, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino delivers a final message from the Bush White House, while Jon Stewart rolls the credits for the last eight years
• Satirical Political Report: Obama Gets Last Laugh: Tricks Chief Justice into Giving Him a Second Term
• Borowitz Report: Bush Repeals English Language in Last Official Act
• Saturday Night Live presents an exit interview with Dick Cheney and an ad for Gitmo's "Going Out of Business Sale"
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs Obama Is Getting Nervous: #9: In moment of confusion, requested a $300 billion bailout from the bailout industry
• Read a compilation of the 25 most idiotic sound bites that defined the Bush era, including gems by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and the Decider himself.
• The late-night comedians offer thanks and bid farewell to George W. Bush
• The Daily Show reports on Bush's last press conference and his lack of accountability
• Revisit Bush's 25 most embarrassing moments
• Mad Magazine looks ahead to Barack Obama's first 100 minutes
• Watch a skit from Saturday Night Live featuring MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewing Rod Blagojevich and Roland Burris
• Watch the ultimate George Bush retrospective, courtesy of 23/6
• Bill Clinton returns to the Oval Office and declares, "I love this rug." To which Newsweek's Richard Wolffe quipped "I think he has a genuine interest in shag carpets."
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard at the Presidents' Lunch. #1: "I hope Clinton's unbuckling his belt because he's full"
• In the latest Marvel Comics, Spider Man has a new sidekick: President-elect Obama.
• Appearing on The Daily Show, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino attempts to defend the Bush legacy
• Amid news that porn kings Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are going to Capitol Hill to seek a $5 billion bailout for the porn industry, TMZ confronts members of Congress to try and nail down support
• Check out a collection of the Top 25 Bush Comedy Videos, including Stephen Colbert's Bush roast, Will Ferrell's Bush impersonation, and other classics
• The late-night comedians are back after a two-week hiatus
• Viral video: watch a face-morphing video featuring U.S. presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama
• Watch newly unearthed footage of Al Franken in tights on "Solid Gold"
• Alan Colmes joins Stephen Colbert as co-host on The Colbert Report
• As a tribute to still-President Bush, we present the 50 dumbest Bush quotes of all time
• Barack Obama has added you as a friend on Facebook
• For the ultimate year-end round-up, visit our list of the Best Year-End Lists of 2008
• Take a look back at the 25 funniest political quotes of 2008, including memorable one-liners and late-night jokes from the presidential campaign
• 23/6 offers congratulations to Wasilla's newest teen mom, Bristol Palin, in the form of greeting cards
• Take a look back at 2008's funniest political moments, featuring governors gone rogue, reverends gone wild, faux plumbers, shoe-throwers, and more.
• Read the top 10 satirical news stories of 2008
• Dave Barry is bailing out of 2008 with his annual year in review column
• Viral video: Uncle Jay looks back at 2008
• 23/6 presents excerpts from the holiday cards of 2008's brightest stars
• Politico looks at 10 people we'll miss in 2009, including Dick Cheney and Ted Stevens
• Watch JibJab's 2008 Year in Review
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• View the 50 funniest political pictures of 2008, including cartoons, fake photos, and captioned pictures from the presidential campaign.
• Obama to boldly go where no geek has gone before
• Take a humorous look at the next 10 Bush midnight regulations, courtesy of blogger Jon Perr
• Check out the top 10 viral videos of 2008
• Keith Olbermann runs down a list of his favorite people of 2008, including Obama, Palin, SNL, Affleck, and Letterman
• Tina Fey has been voted the AP's Entertainer of the Year. You betcha!
• Watch as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert sing an amusing Hanukkah song as part of "A Colbert Christmas"
• Santa is seeking a bailout too. Watch his congressional testimony, brought to you by National Lampoon
• The shoe hurled at President Bush is flying off the shelf of the Turkish maker as orders pour in from Iraq, the U.S. and Iran.
• Read our roundup of the 25 dumbest quotes of 2008, featuring the most memorable gaffes by Palin, McCain, Obama, Biden and company.
• Bristol Palin's babydaddy's mommy has been arrested on drug charges, apparently because there's nothing better to do in the "real America" of Wasilla than sell meth for extra scratch
• The Three Stooges throw pies at Bush in the latest video inspired by the shoe-hurling attack (hat tip to Laugh Lines)
• Now you too can throw shoes at Bush, thanks to this handy game from Atom.com
• First Dog Barney stars in his final White House Christmas video, featuring the Bush family tripping on some serious psychedelic drugs. 23/6 offers a scene-by-scene analysis.
• Duly quoted: "The best thing you can do is keep your VP under control." --Vice President Dick Cheney, offering advice to Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel
• Check out late-night jokes, political cartoons, and funny animations inspired by about the Bush shoe-throwing debacle
• Watch a video mashup featuring the flying shoe from Austin Powers and President Bush
• Borowitz Report: Caroline Kennedy Asks to be Time's Person of the Year
• 23/6 presents Ten to Hate in 2008
• An Iraqi journalist hurls his shoes at Bush at a news conference in Baghdad. Joking about the incident Bush said, "All I can report is a size 10."
• Borowitz Report: Yankees Sign Iraqi Hurler
• Watch CNN, MSNBC and Fox in symphonic ecstasy in this mashup from 23/6
• Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler mock Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update"
• John McCain won't say whether he'll support Sarah Palin in 2012, quipping, "My corpse is still warm."
• 23/6 invites you to vote for your favorite "Dick of the Year"
• See a hilarious picture of Rod Blagojevich and submit your own caption
• Watch The Daily Show's week in review
• Robin Williams sounds off on the 2008 election: "Where did they get Sarah Palin? Did Ronald Reagan have a kid with Posh Spice?"
• John McCain jokes with David Letterman, saying "I don't want to talk about the bleeping campaign. Understand? If you think I'm going to go back to that bleeping situation, then bleep you."
• 23/6 presents Blago in a minute
• Read late-night jokes about Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
• Politico presents Blago's Greatest Hits
• Who's the worst governor of 2008, Blago or Spitzer? 23/6 breaks it down
• President Bush and notorious Bush-hater Barbra Streisand share an awkward smooch at a White House event while Babs received the Kennedy Center Honors of 2008
• Duly quoted: "I'm just not giving it up for f***in' nothing. I'm not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there." --Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, on Barack Obama's Senate seat, which he was arrested for trying to sell
• Borowitz Report: Illinois Guv Offers Senate Seat to Arresting Officer
• NBC announced that Jay Leno will host a new prime time show every weeknight in the 10 p.m. slot beginning in 2010.
• Amy Poehler's Hillary Clinton returns to Saturday Night Live to address the nation as Obama's newly named secretary of state
• Borowitz Report: Angry Kucinich Reminds Obama He Was Rival; Hail Mary Bid for Postmaster General
• Celebrities take on California's gay marriage ban in "Prop. 8: The Musical," a hilarious new video from Funny Or Die
• A Florida congresswoman who hung up on Obama twice said she was "flabbergasted" the call wasn't a prank
• Check our final annual salute to the 10 dumbest Bush quotes of the year
• Barack Obama's chief speechwriter was photographed partying with a Clinton cutout
• Joe Biden cracked a joke about Sarah Palin at a meeting of the National Governors Association, saying, "I want to thank all of you for being here and Governor Palin I want to thank you particularly. As I told you when we walked in, since the race is over no one pays attention to me at all. So maybe you'll walk outside with me or something later and say hello to me."
• Extreme Mortman looks back at the 10 Funniest Political Quotes of 2008
• Tina Fey calls Sarah Palin "sexism" charges baloney. She also explains her facial scar and talks about her Republicans parents
• Looking for holiday gift ideas? Check out our annual Political Gift Guide, featuring books, DVDs, and gag gifts for political junkies and humor enthusiasts
• Slate presents Sarah Palin's Turkey Interview Outtakes. Wait until you see what else she didn't notice!
• Ann Coulter's jaw has been wired shut, proving that God has a sense of humor
• David Letterman presents the "Top 10 Sarah Palin Excuses for the Turkey Slaughter"
• Happy liberals give thanks for Sarah Palin over at 23/6
• The Daily Show recaps Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits
• Bill Clinton impersonator Darrell Hammond stops by Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" to talk about Hillary as Secretary of State
• SNL presents a special obsenity-laced message from Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel
• Humorist Bill Shein looks at last-minute Bush initiatives
• Sarah Palin pardons a turkey and hilarity ensues
• Borowitz Report: Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
• Stephen Colbert stops by Good Morning America to promote his upcoming Christmas special, "A Colbert Christmas"
• Saturday Night Live mocks Joe Biden and his propensity for gaffes
• Watch video of Rahm Emanuel roasting Stephen Colbert
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard During Obama's Meeting With McCain. #1: "Maybe you'd be President-elect if you hadn't crossed Letterman"
• A group of pranksters handed out over a million fake copies of the New York Times, reporting that all of the world's problems will be solved by July 2009.
• Borowitz Report: Bush in Race Against Time to Wreck Country
• John McCain talks to Jay Leno about his election loss, saying, "I've been sleeping like a baby. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours, wake up and cry.''
• Watch video of Barack Obama roasting his future chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, in 2005
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard During the Bush/Obama Meeting. #1: "When can you start?"
• With the election over, Bill Maher bids farewell to douchebags
• Check out political cartoons and funny pics saluting Obama's historic victory
• Watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert call the election for Barack Obama as part of their Indecision 2008 live coverage
• McCain staffers are wasting no time throwing Sarah Palin under the bus, describing her shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast"; revealing that she did not know Africa was a continent; recounting how she once greeted the McCain staff wearing only a towel; and dishing on her temper tantrums.
• The Onion: Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job
• Borowitz Report: Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats
• The Onion: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
• 23/6: America to World: "We're Not Retarded!"
• Read a compilation of the best late-night jokes of election 2008
• Catch highlights from McCain's and Palin's appearances on Saturday Night Live's "Presidential Bash"
• View a gallery of the top 100 funny pictures and cartoons from the 2008 presidential campaign
• Have no fear, SuperBarack is here
• A Canadian comedy duo prank calls Sarah Palin and convinces her she's talking to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Hilarity ensues.
• Watch John McCain on Saturday Night Live with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in a skit that featured them addressing the nation on the QVC channel. McCain: "Look, would I rather be on three major networks? Of course. But I'm a true maverick -- a Republican without money."
• Forget the polls. If you really want to know who's going to win the election, look to these time-tested predictors: Halloween mask sales, the kids' vote, and the Washington Redskins.
• Bill Maher takes a hilarious look back at the 2008 election in his latest installment of "New Rules"
• Take a look back at The Presidential Campaign in a Minute, courtesy of a 23/6
• Check out the top 10 funniest gaffes of campaign 2008
• John McCain is set to appear on Saturday Night Live, where presumably he will attempt to swap Sarah Palin for Tina Fey
• Mr. Straight Talk Himself stars in My Friends: The Musical, featuring McCain's favorite phrases
• The Moderate Voice looks at recent late-night jokes and how they provide a telling barometer of where the presidential race is headed
• In honor of Halloween, Howard Mortman looks back at the most frightening Halloween-themed rhetoric from recent presidential campaign history
• Stephen Colbert announces that he will endorse (but not vote for) Barack Obama.
• Barack Obama discusses his white half, socialism, and Sean Hannity on The Daily Show
• Watch a hilarious Daily Show segment on Sarah Palin "Goin' Rogue"
• Now you too can dress like Sarah Palin with the help of a fun interactive game
• David Alan Grier of Comedy Central's "Chocolate News" has a special message for black people: be cool until Obama is elected
• During an appearance on David Letterman, Alec Baldwin imitates Sarah Palin, calls her "beautiful" And "Bible spice"
• Check out the 25 most devastating quotes about Sarah Palin
• Tina Fey tells Conan O'Brien that Sarah Palin offered her daugther Bristol for babysitting
• Duly quoted: "Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich." --Barack Obama on John McCain's attacks (Watch video clip)
• Check out the 25 funniest viral videos of the 2008 campaign
• A top McCain adviser calls Sarah Palin a "whack-job," one-upping another McCain adviser who called her a "diva"
• David Letterman presents the "Top Ten Sarah Palin Excuses for Spending $150,000 on Clothes": #1: The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick, Prada shoes, a Gucci handbag, and a few $3,000 suits
• David Sedaris shares his thoughts about undecided voters: "I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of sh*t with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
• Paris Hilton releases a music video to accompany her mock presidential campaign
• Michelle Obama tells Jay Leno she shops at J. Crew and buys online
• The guys from Budweiser's classic "Wassup" ad return to offer their take on the Bush years and the 2008 election. Watch "Wassup 2008"
• Watch The Vet Who Did Not Vet, a Dr. Seuss-style telling of the McCain and Palin tale
• Will Ferrell returns as Bush on Saturday Night Live to offer his endorsement to John McCain and Sarah Palin
• Ron Howard steps back into the roles of Opie on the "Andy Griffith Show" and Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days" as part of a call to support Barack Obama
• Bill Maher laments that Barack Obama is bad for comedians in his latest installment of "New Rules"
• Next up on Dancing with the Stars: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin
• John McCain's brother, Joe McCain, calls 9/11 to complain about traffic and curses out the operator
• Sarah Palin's hair stylist was paid more than McCain's foreign policy adviser
• Which side better represents the "real America"? Compare the Liberal and Conservative Manifestos
• Larry David says waiting for Nov. 4 is like waiting for the results of a biopsy
• Sarah Palin is too sexy for her wardrobe
• Rumors are swirling that Barack Obama will appear on Saturday Night Live on the last show before the election
• Tina Fey talks to David Letterman about playing Sarah Palin, saying "She has a really crazy voice... It's a little bit Fargo, a little bit Reese Witherspoon in Election. I also try and base it on my friend Paula's grandma."
• Jon Stewart compares the "real" America and the "fake America", while Daly Show correspondent Jason Jones goes to Wasilla, Alaska to discover what the real America is all about
• Stuck for a costume idea this Halloween? 23/6 presents a Scary Sarah Palin Mask
• Watch the first G-rated scene from "Nailin Palin," Larry Flynt's porn movie starring a Sarah Palin lookalike
• Slate presents the Barack Obama Crank Call Generator
• As early voting begins, life imitates The Simpsons
• Sarah Palin makes a much-anticipated appearance on Saturday Night Live in a skit featuring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Lorne Michaels, and Mark Wahlberg.
• The now legendary photo of John McCain sticking his tongue out like a zombie has inspired a series of hilarious photoshopped McCain images
• Duly quoted: "She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: F**k you." --Jon Stewart, speaking about Sarah Palin to a college audience in Boston
• John McCain crawls back to David Letterman after bailing on his show and tells him "I screwed up." Letterman repays McCain by subjecting him to one of the toughest interviews he's had during the campaign. See the video and transcript.
• Barack Obama and John McCain crack jokes at each other's expense at the Al Smith Dinner. Read highlights, plus check out the videos and transcripts of their dueling comedy routines.
• Saturday Night Live spoofs the final presidential debate and Crazy McCain Lady
• Republicans are getting skewered by the late-night comedians at a rate of 7-1, according to a new study
• Joe Biden, appearing on The Tonight Show, commits a minor flub to kick off the show and talks with Jay Leno about McCain's anger issues and Joe the Plumber
• Take a look back at highlights and lowlights from the presidential and vice presidential debates, including John McCain's struggles with anger management, the obsession with Joe the Plumber, and other memorable antics.
• Check out the photo of McCain sticking out his tongue at the debate, plus watch video clips of Angry McCain and Eye-Rolling McCain
• Read a compilation of McCain and Palin's 25 most laughable quotes
• Duly quoted: "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden
• John Cleese says Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin on Earth
• Sarah Palin is set to appear on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 18
• See Sarah Palin in the Oval Office (click the photo on different spots for surprises)
• Join the crusade to stamp out bad Halloween campaign rhetoric
• Check out a roundup of the funniest political bumper stickers of 2008
• In a PSA presented by Funny Or Die, Hayden Panettiere sarcastically encourages voters to support John McCain, saying he's just like George Bush, except older and with a worse temper.
• Watch a funny preview clip from Chocolate News, in which David Alan Grier argues why white America should vote for Barack Obama - because he's only half black. The new Comedy Central show premieres Oct. 15 at 10:30 p.m.
• David Letterman presents the "Top Ten Surprises in the Sarah Palin Troopergate Investigation Report" #3: When asked to respond to charges said, "Instead of answering your question, I'm going to talk about energy"
• Sarah Palin has now lost the vote of Wonder Woman
• The Great Schlep, promoted by comedian Sarah Silverman to pitch Obama to Florida Jews, appears to be helping sway voters
• Bristol Palin's baby daddy, Levi Johnston, won't be voting in the election because he missed the registration deadline
• Sarah Palin isn't just a target of political jokes, she's being "swift-butted" by Tina Fey, according to the New York Post. Meanwhile, Tina Fey says if Palin wins, "I'm leaving Earth."
• Sarah Palin drops the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game and gets booed on the ice
• Blogger John Perr awards the 2008 Nobel Prizes for Conservatives
• Duly quoted: "My friends, we've got them just where we want them." --John McCain, on Barack Obama and the national media that "has written us off"
• After receiving a brutal drubbing from David Letterman the past couple of weeks, John McCain is crawling back to appear on on the Late Show this Thursday
• Saturday Night Live spoofs the Nashville presidential debate in a special edition of "Weekend Update"
• Watch video of John McCain wandering around stage during the presidential debate
• Rumors are swirling that Sarah Palin is set to appear on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 25, where she will get a chance to seek comic revenge against Tina Fey. Meanwhile, a new poll finds that Fey's skewering of Palin has caused her favorability rating to drop 4 points.
• David Letterman accuses John McCain of "being squirrely" and says "I don't know if we can trust him."
• Jon Stewart on whether he's taking sides in the election: "If you, out of nowhere, are going to grab a woman out of the woods and make her your vice presidential candidate, what can I do? [Sarah Palin] is like Jodie Foster in the movie 'Nell.' They just found her, and she was speaking her own special language. Have you noticed how [Palin's] rallies have begun to take on the characteristics of the last days of the Weimar Republic? In Florida, she asked 'Who is Barack Obama?' Hey, lady, we just met YOU five f**ing weeks ago."
• John McCain calls Americans "my fellow prisoners"
• Paris Hilton seeks the advice of our most esteemed fake president in her new campaign video
• John McCain dismissively calls Obama "That One." We're adding it to the list of the Top 10 Dumbest John McCain Quotes
• Watch video of Sarah Palin in the evening gown competition of the 1984 Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant
• Duly quoted: "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco (Read more idiotic Sarah Palin quotes)
• Tina Fey reprises her role as Sarah Pain in a Saturday Night Live skit satirizing the vice presidential debate
• David Letterman presents a hilarious recap of Sarah Palin at the VP debate
• Bill Maher sounds off on Palin's debate performance
• Joking with David Letterman about the VP debate, Brian Williams says, "I'm a maverick and I may not answer the questions tonight the way you want to hear them, Dave."
• Keith Olbermann proves that Sarah Palin is the new Bush
• Jon Stewart rips John McCain for his doublespeak on the Wall Street bailout
• How well do you know Sarah Palin? Take the Sarah Palin Quiz
• In an episode of The Simpsons slated to run November 2, Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama. A machine changes the vote to McCain and proceeds to kill him.
• Read the 5 most laughable Joe Biden gaffes of the campaign so far
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard at Sarah Palin's Debate Camp. #1: "Any way we can just get Tina Fey to do it?"
• Visit the definitive Palin gaffe video library, courtesy of 23/6
• Check out Sarah Palin's Facebook Page, a hilarious parody current making the rounds
• McCain to Hide Inside Podium at Debate (Borowitz)
• FOX News demonstrates that it is fair, balanced and untrue
• Watch John McCain get lost on stage
• David Letterman continued poking fun at John McCain, saying, "Senator John McCain is in favor of the bailout. He loves bailouts -- he bailed out on me." Guest Julia Louis-Dreyfus also got in an amusing dig at McCain
• In her latest gaffe, Sarah Palin can't name any Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade
• How do you win a political argument this election season? Listen to my interview with Gayle King on Oprah & Friends
• Republicans say they killed the economic bailout bill because Nancy Pelosi hurt their feelings, to which Barney Frank quipped, "Give me those twelve people's names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe they'll now think about the country." It recalls this famous episode in American politics.
• Tina Fey reprises her Sarah Palin impersonation in a Saturday Night Live skit mocking Palin's train wreck interview with Katie Couric
• Watch video footage of a young Sarah Palin in the swimsuit competition of the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant
• Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker calls upon Sarah Palin to bow out for the good of the country, saying "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself"
• The Letterman-McCain feud spilled over to a second night, with Letterman continuing his drubbing of McCain and saying "I feel like an ugly date."
• Jon Stewart runs clips of Bush's 2003 Iraq speech side-by-side with clips of Bush's 2008 bailout speech
• McCain Replaces Palin with Startled Deer (Borowitz Report)
• Watch the Sarah Palin Disney Trailer, featuring an Alaskan hockey mom who becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year!
• Jon Stewart explains how John McCain is the only man who can impulsively overreact to something 10 days old
• Watch the Couric-Palin interview clip that all U.S. Americans should see. Like, such as...
• David Letterman reveals the Top 10 Surprising Facts About Sarah Palin, as presented by residents of Wasilla, Alaska. #1: Only person I know who's not afraid to go hunting with Dick Cheney
• David Letterman mocks John McCain for canceling his Late Show appearance and suspending his campaign
• Slate predicts McCain's next 10 Hail Mary campaign stunts. #1: Returns to Vietnam and jails himself
• Check out the top 5 Joe Biden gaffes so far
• Entertainment Weekly reprises the controversial New Yorker cover with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert mocking the vote
• Sarah Silverman wants Jews to gets their butts down to Florida for The Great Schlep
• Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson seeks your urgent help for a confidential business proposal
• Sarah Palin once again tries to explain why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, and once again embarrasses herself
• David Letterman presents the Top 10 George W. Bush Ideas For Fixing the Economy: #4: Let's just say the Lincoln Memorial is now the Tostitos Lincoln Memorial
• The Onion presents an amusing point and counterpoint on the Palin pick
• McCain Supports Bailing Out of Debate; Urges Comprehensive Debate Bailout Package (Borowitz Report)
• Bill Clinton trades quips with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
• Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert got in a dig at John McCain at the Emmys while appearing as presenters. Colbert, eating from a bag of dried plums, told Stewart, "Right now, America needs a prune. It may not be a young, sexy plum. Granted, it is shriveled and at times hard to swallow. But this dried-up old fruit has the experience we need." Replied Stewart, "You know after eight years of prunes, you would think ..." "Never enough," Colbert responded. "What could possibly go wrong?" (Watch video clip)
• Duly quoted: "I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5. So if anybody can help me be done playing this lady Nov. 5, that would be good for me." --Tina Fey, on impersonating Sarah Palin. Fey also mocked the charge that the Palin skit was sexist.
• Sarah Palin may lie, but numbers don't. Check out Sarah Palin's Record, by the Numbers
• Saturday Night Live mocks John McCain for running misleading ads about Barack Obama
• Palin Suspends VP Campaign: Rushes Back to Alaska to Keep an Eye on Russia (Steve Young)
• The Consumer Guide to the John McCain Car Fleet (23/6)
• Bush To Put FEMA in Charge of Wall Street Rescue (Opinions You Should Have)
• Bill Maher has started a movement to Free Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's baby daddy, whom he calls "America's #1 political prisoner." Video is here.
• What would your name be if your mother was Sarah Palin? Find out with the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator
• McCain Proposes Sending Troops to South America to Invade Spain (Borowitz)
• The Daily Show picks apart the Sean Hannity-Sarah Palin infomercial
• Sarah Palin elevates herself to the top of the ticket in a Palin-McCain administration
• John McCain has not accepted Stephen Colbert's invitation to appear on the show, so Colbert has no choice but to spread horrible lies about him
• Read the latest Palin punch lines from the late-night comedians
• Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but did John McCain invent the BlackBerry? Get the full scoop
• John McCain Gave Crackberry to the Inner Cities (23/6)
• Jon Stewart looks at the candidates' generic solutions to the financial crisis
• McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don't Lead To Creepy Smile (The Onion) • Sarah Palin says she thought Tina Fey's portrayal of her on SNL was hilarious, even though she watched it with the sound off
• Jon Stewart says that Sarah Palin doesn't need to know what the Bush Doctrine is -- she is the Bush Doctrine
• McCain Attacks Washington, Republicans, Old White Men with White Hair (Borowitz)
• Tina Fey impersonates Sarah Palin during the opening sketch of Saturday Night Live's season premiere. Watch the video and read the transcript.
• Watch the raw, unedited cut of Sarah Palin's interview with ABC, in which she attempts to explain what the Bush Doctrine is
• Craig Ferguson explains why if you don't vote, you're a moron
• It turns out that Juno Palin "stole" Levi Johnston from her best friend. PerezHilton has the scoop.
• David Letterman lampoons Sarah Palin, saying she looks like a relieved mom in a Tide commercial and a flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi, among other things
• Barack Obama talks lipstick and pigs with David Letterman (Watch video clip)
• Joe Biden is living up to his gaffe-prone reputation, saying that Hillary Clinton would have made a better VP pick and telling a guy in a wheel chair to stand up
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visits the Republican Convention
• Will the revolution be photoshopped? About.com's David Emery looks at the photoshopped images of Sarah Palin circulating on the Web and their impact on the political landscape
• Palin Uses Magic 8-Ball in ABC Interview (Borowitz Report)
• Barack Obama has adopted a new line of attack against John McCain, based on this political cartoon by Tom Toles
• Read our compilation of the 10 dumbest things Sarah Palin has said (so far)
• Amazon has an amusing list of books likely to be banned by President Sarah Palin
• NotTheLATimes: Palin doll accuses Obama toy of being anatomically incorrect
• Bill Maher weighs in on the Republican Convention and stupid voters
• Best Daily Show episode ever? Watch coverage of John McCain's acceptance speech and a hilarious mockumentary profiling John McCain: Reformed Maverick
• Check out the latest political cartoons and late-night jokes skewering Sarah Palin
• David Letterman says McCain jokes are "not entirely fair"
• Jon Stewart hits Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, and Dick Morris on Sarah Palin hypocrisy
• Borowitz Report: Levi Johnston's Convention Diary
• Check out a collection of funny Sarah Palin pictures
• Watch a video reenactment of John McCain's phone call to Sarah Palin offering her the VP job
• Check out the amusing schedule of events at the Republican convention, including the VP Beauty Contest and Swimsuit Competition, Sarah Palin Lecture on the Effectiveness of Abstinence-Only Education, and a Tribute to a "Nation of Whiners"
• Borowitz Report: Palin Blames Daughter's Pregnancy on Media, Demands That Media Marry Bristol
• The father of Bristol Palin's child is proud to be a "f**king redneck", according to his MySpace page
• Watch video of John McCain checking out Sarah Palin during her VP announcement speech
• Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert weigh in on Sarah Palin
• Jon Stewart visits the Larry Craig bathroom stall, calls it Mt. Rushmore
• See what the late-night comedians and other jokesters are saying about Sarah Palin
• Borowitz Report: GOP Campaign Increasingly Resembling Unproduced Goldie Hawn Film
• Duly quoted: "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in an interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co."
• Sarah Palin boosters have launched VPILF.com
• Check out humor highlights from the Democratic Convention, including funny quotes, late-night jokes, and video clips
• The Daily Show presents a hilarious mockumentary on the life of Barack Obama
• Currently circulating on the Interwebs: The Presidential Campaign Creator
• Watch John McCain trade quips with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, and find out how the audience was tortured by McCain's POW joke
• Check out our roundup of the best Obama punch lines, as well as our comic tribute to Hillary Clinton
• The Onion: Cheney To Speak At Republican Convention From Section 109, Row 56, Seat 3
• Watch coverage of Michelle Obama's convention speech from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
• Best line of the week about McCain: "If he's the answer, then the question must be ridiculous." --New York Gov. David Patterson (Read more quotes)
• See the amusing schedule of events at the Democratic convention, plus check out late-night jokes and cartoons about the convention
• Borowitz Report: New McCain Ad Attacks Obama Kids
• John McCain plays the POW card yet again to deflect Jay Leno's question about how many houses he owns
• Jon Stewart rips the media a new one, calling the 24-hour news channels "gerbil wheels" and castigating Fox News as "an appendage of the Republican Party."
• Borowitz Report: Bill Clinton's Denver Speech to be on Five-second Delay
• At his first campaign rally with Barack Obama, Joe Biden slips up and calls his running mate "Barack America." Read about Biden's wit and wisdom.
• Since all of the late-night shows were in reruns this week, we've compiled some of the best McCain jokes and Obama jokes from recent weeks to fill the humor void.
• Check out our compilation of the Top 10 Dumbest McCain Quotes, featuring his housing gaffe at #3.
• Comedy Central looks at Obama's 4 worst VP picks
• 23/6 uncovers McCain's cheat sheet to remember how many houses he has
• Borowitz Report: Cindy McCain 'Unsure' How Many Half-sisters She Has
• Best typo ever: In a story about upcoming vice presidential picks, the AP referred to Joe Lieberman as "the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000."
• 23/6 has just launched Conventional Wisdom, an entertaining online game that allows you to make predictions about the national political conventions and compete to win a $1,000.
• Borowitz Report: Biden Prepares 50,000-Word Acceptance Speech
• NotTheLATimes: Obama-Vision Glasses Can Impair Judgment, Study Says
• Watch FOX News' Obama documentary and McCain documentary in one minute, courtesy of 23/6
• The Huffington Post examines how John McCain has been abusing the humor card
• Watch McCaingels, a parody of Charlie's Angels, featuring John McCain as Charlie, instructing a trio of beautiful women to stop gay marriage.
• The Simpsons' Ralph Wiggum is running for President
• Satirical Political Report: Forget 'Text Messaging,' McCain to Announce Veep Pick by Telegraph
• 23/6 looks at the War Within Bob Woodward: One Journalist's Love-Hate Relationship with the White House
• Watch John McCain caged in a Cone of Silence
• Stephen Colbert is still running for president in the Marvel comics universe
• 23/6 presents the John McCain guide to playing the POW card
• President Bush was in fine photographic form at the Beijing Olympics, waving a flag backwards and patting a beach volleyball player on the backside
• Borowitz Report: Poll: Obama Faring Poorly Among Racists
• The Internet phenomenon known as "Rickrolling" has now given rise to "Barackrolling." Catch the sensation.
• Viral video: Baracky takes on Clubber McCain with the help of Apollo Clinton in Baracky II, a parody of Rocky II.
• Is John McCain a Wikipdiot? The Republican presidential candidate apparently has been lifting his foreign policy statements about Georgia from Wikipedia. As Stephen Colbert quipped, "I think it should have been obvious when he referred to the country's leader as 'President 404 Error: File Not Found.'"
• Obama and McCain are both vying for the endorsement of Angelina Jolie
• A fun fact about the Democratic convention schedule. When Obama speaks it will be the 45th anniversary of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. When Hillary speaks it will be the 88th anniversary of Women's Suffrage. And when Bill Clinton speaks, it will be the 125th anniversary of the eruption of the great Krakatoa volcano. (NPR)
• Check out our roundup of Olympic punch lines
• Cast your vote for your favorite Peanuts character at Peanuts Rocks the Vote, plus check out classic Peanuts election strips
• There's a wickedly funny new parody site on the block, NotTheLATimes.com, a send-up of current events, politics, pop culture, advertising, and the L.A. Times.
• Check out our roundup of humor about John Edwards' affair
• The Onion: 'No Values Voters' Search For Most Evil Candidate
• Barack Obama has come out with his own celebrity attack ad
• Paris Hilton strikes back at John McCain with her own campaign video in which she calls him old and wrinkly and announces her own presidential campaign.
• John McCain may be slinging mud over Obama being a "celebrity," but McCain is the one who has made cameos on the TV show "24," in the movie "Wedding Crashers," and who has hosted SNL and appeared on late-night comedy shows some 30 times (Politico)
• The National Enquirer has published a photo of John Edwards with his alleged love child
• How closely have you been following the presidential election? Test your knowledge of Obama and McCain trivia with this shocking quiz and we'll rate your political IQ.
• In honor of Barack Obama's birthday, David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard at Barack Obama's Birthday Party, and 23/6 presents cards from his loved ones and political enemies
• Dan Quayle dashes the hopes of comedians everywhere by declining an invitation to appear on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars
• A new John McCain ad likens Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Get the full details
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident. #10: Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to "Oklobama"
• Jon Stewart rips John McCain for thanking the Hilton family for their support by taking a nationally televised dump on their daughter
• 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
• In honor of Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment, we offer a tribute to the man who famously said that the Internet is "not a truck, it's a series of tubes."
• Revisit your favorite political gaffes with the Campaign Gaffe Remix, presented by 23/6
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Ways John McCain Can Appear More Youthful. #1: Never hurts to nail a few interns
• Paula Poundstone confesses to being shamefully ignorant about energy and the environment (23/6)
• Watch the trailer for W: The Movie," the upcoming Oliver Stone film about the life of George W. Bush
• 23/6: Election officials worried that people might actually try and vote this year
• 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
• Read the latest political gaffes by McCain, Obama and Bush
• Jon Stewart rips Robert Novak following his hit-and-run accident: "The only difference really between this and the rest of his career is that this time someone stopped him."
• Stephen Colbert reports on John McCain's sausage party
• Borowitz Report: McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet
• Is Barack Obama Jewish? See the shocking evidence uncovered by 23/6
• It was a week of horrible photo ops for John McCain
• Check out our complete coverage of the New Yorker Obama cartoon scandal, including cartoons lampooning the New Yorker cartoon
• In reporting on Jesse Jackson's foul-mouthed swipe at Barack Obama, the news media provided some unintended comedy
• Watch John McCain squirm and squint after being asked a question about Viagra
• Bushism of the Month: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
• The news that Iran had apparently altered a photo of a missile test has touched off Photoshop mockery across the Web
• The Onion: Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
• Borowitz Report: McCain Issues Top Ten Funniest Ways to Kill Iranians
• Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien are back in action after taking the last two weeks off
• Last week FOX News aired altered photos of two New York Times reporters in an attempt to embarrass them. Now you can learn to Photoshop just like FOX News, courtesy of 23/6. Plus, check out Vanity Fair's Photoshop of Horrors, featuring retouched photos of Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera, and Co.
• John McCain and Barack Obama square off at the Beijing Olympics in the latest animated cartoon by Walt Handelsman (Newsday)
• The Onion: Bill Clinton Sadly Folds First Lady Dress Back Into Box
• 23/6 presents a tribute to Jesse Helms in his own words
• Borowitz Report: Liberal Bloggers Accuse Obama of Trying to Win Election
• Michael Kinsley writes about Al Franken's campaign quandary: how to explain away the bad jokes (Slate)
• Humor critic Paul Lewis looks at the cultural phenomenon behind "Achmed, the Dead Terrorist," which has been seen on YouTube some 50 million times
• Rush Limbaugh on Bill O'Reilly: "Somebody's got to say it. The man is Ted Baxter." (TVNewser)
• Blogger Chris Kelly weighs the possibility of Mitt Romney as vice president and concludes that he probably won't kill John McCain (23/6)
• Borowitz Report: McCain Proposes Tax Holiday for Beer Heiresses
• President Bush and Joe Lieberman have both been caught doing terrorist fist jabs
• Actor Stephen Baldwin announces he'll leave the country if Obama wins (Huffington Post)
• 23/6 presents The Barack Obama Evangelical Beg-O-Tron
• The Onion: How to Pretend You Care about the Election
• Extreme Mortman presents the Top Ten Funniest Political Quotes So Far in 2008
• Watch recaps of this week's best moments from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
• Clean Channel has banned ads for Harry Shearer's political comedy CD over an anti-Bush image (Huffington Post)
• George Lucas says that Barack Obama would most certainly be a Jedi (hat tip to Extreme Mortman)
• Jon Stewart explains how a Terror Attack Election = Republican Victory
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard on Hillary Clinton's First Day Back at Work: #7: "Should I take the Madame President nameplate off your door?"
• President Bush waves to onlookers, and no one waves back
• As American mourns the loss of George Carlin, we pay tribute to his political wit and wisdom
• Scott McClellan has some ideas for book titles that Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby might consider, including "I Upped Halliburton's Income -- So Up Yours."
• San Francisco residents are seeking to name a sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush
• Daily Kos's Cheers & Jeers salutes George W. Bush as the best president ever
• John McCain's 'Pork Invaders' video game looks older than John McCain
• 23/6 presents the Presidential Guide to Dealing with Bad News
• The Onion: Giuliani Spotted Sleeping On New York City Subway
• With John McCain cracking jokes about his age, The Politico's Howard Mortman looks at the art of self-deprecating presidential humor
• 23/6 presents The O'Reilly Factor in 1 Minute
• Rev. Ted Haggard has completed his spiritual rehabilitation is now cured of the gay
• Jon Stewart looks at Baracknophobia within Obama's own campaign
• Barack Obama downplays his friendship with 'email buddy' Scarlett Johansson
• Congratulations to Mad Kane, who's been named a finalist in the Robert Benchley Society Award For Humor Competition
• Al Gore has gone from hanging chads to hanging with the homeboys
• Jon Stewart looks at whether it's possible to elect John McCain for president and Michelle Obama for first lady
• John McCain's "C-Word" moment has become fodder for satirists. Watch "He Said It First," a spoof video depicting how a news bureau might cover McCain's profane tirade at his wife
• The Texas GOP has cut off a vendor who was selling buttons that asked "If Obama is president…will we still call it The White House?"
• President Bush may have sworn off golf during wartime, but these patriots didn't. A spoof video from 23/6.
• John McCain trades quips with Jimmy Kimmel and jokes about his age and his plans for redecorating the White House
• Stephen Colbert pays homage to Tim Russert by showing his interview on "Meet the Press."
• Jon Stewart mocks the media for peddling insane Obama rumors
• 23/6 has obtained an advance copy of Bill O'Reilly's forthcoming book, A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
• Borowitz Report: McCain: Sunnis, Shiites "Trying to Confuse Me"
• Barack Obama, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, promises to replace Bush's bouncy castle with a basketball court
• Conan O'Brien remembers Tim Russert on Late Night
• Vanity Fair's James Wolcott examines the media's Man Crush on John McCain
• The Daily Show covers Still-President Bush's trip to Europe and his musings about German asparagus and the Iraq war
• Stephen Colbert presents the first round of entries in his Make McCain Exciting Challenge
• Republicans explain why they're proudly backing their party in this amusing satirical video: I'm Voting Republican (hat tip to CollegeOTR)
• 23/6 recaps the entire Democratic primary in 1 minute
• Jon Stewart looks at John McCain's salty language and Barack Obama's fist bump
• Borowitz Report: McCain Vows to Campaign in All Thirteen Colonies
• Check out our comic tribute to Hillary Clinton
• Take a stroll down memory lane with Keith Olbermann's amusing highlight reel from the 2008 primaries
• 23/6: If They IM'd: Laura Bush and Michelle Obama
• Duly quoted: "I will veto every single beer." --John McCain, misspeaking while trying to say he will veto every "bill"
• Read my humorous roundup of the Democratic primary: The Other Math: How the Democratic Race Was Really Won, appearing in the New York Times Laugh Lines blog
• The McCain Girls are back with McCANIAC!
• Duly quoted: "Well, basically, it's a Google" --John McCain, on how he's vetting his prospective VP candidates
• Borowitz Report: Fist-Bump Overshadows Ass-Slap
• Political comedy may be thriving in America, but these are tough times for humorists in some parts of the globe. In Russia, Vladimir Putin and Dimitri Medvedev have banned all anti-government jokes, while in Nicaragua, cartoonists are under assault
• Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert sound off on Hillary Clinton's concession
• Scarlett Johansson and Barack Obama are email buddies
• 23/6 shows us how Congress plans to fight global warming over the next 50 years
• 23/6: Non-Bush Employment At An All-Time High
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Questions on the Barack Obama Running Mate Application: #9: "Do you have any crazy clergymen we should know about?"
• The Daily Show covers Obama's victory, noting that he has the chance to become the first African-American president since Season 1 of 24
• Stephen Colbert issues a bold challenge to Americans to make John McCain seem more interesting
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Things Overheard At Hillary Clinton Campaign Headquarters. #7: "So they're nominating the guy with the most delegates, superdelegates, and states won? Outrageous!"
• Check out our roundup of the best humor from the Obama-Clinton showdown
• Duly quoted: "We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies." --John McCain (Watch video clip and read more McCainisms)
• Here's what John McCain meant to say in his "frighteningly sad" kickoff speech, given to literally tens of supporters
• Conservative columnist Melanie Morgan advises Hillary Clinton on how to steal, er, win back the nomination
• Satirical Political Report: A Look Back at Campaign '08: The True Story of the Democrats' 'Color Wars'
• 23/6: Secret McCain Website Edits Leaked to Press
• Stephen Colbert goes through the stages of grief now that the Democracy primary is over
• Dick Cheney makes an incest joke about West Virginians, saying "I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don't even live in West Virginia."
• Slate explains how West Virginia got a bad reputation for incest
• Watch David Letterman's new segment: Dick Cheney: Comedy Genius
• George Lucas wants to ruin the Barack Obama story, too
• Stephen Colbert tells grads: Please don't change the world
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Revelations in the Scott McClellan Book. #4: "Each time McClellan lied about Iraq, Bush gave him a barrel of oil"
• The Daily Show presents the Audio Book version of Scott McClellan's book, plus watch Jon Stewart's interview with McClellan
• 23/6: If They IM'd: Old and New Scott McClellan
• Watch Hillary Clinton's Last Ad: The Remix, courtesy of Slate V
• The Onion: McCain Vows To Replace Secret Service With His Own Bare Fists
• Political comedian Will Durst muses about John McBush
• A sure sign of the apocalypse: Revs. Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton appear together in an ad about fighting global warming
• Is this the first time Hillary Clinton has refused to drop out of a race? Watch never-before-seen footage of a Young Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
• Borowitz Report: Bush Refuses to Read McClellan's Book, Calling It 'A Book'
• 23/6: Scott McClellan Thought Process Flowchart
• Picture of the week: President Bush chest bumps an Air Force cadet
• Duly quoted: "(McCain's) buttocks are unremarkable except for some very light tan freckling" --John McCain's oncologist, Dr. Suzanne Connolly of the Mayo Clinic, according to his medical records (hat tip to The Daily Show)
• The Onion: Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose
• 23/6: Disgruntled Former Bush Administration Official Memoir-o-Tron
• Jon Stewart reports on the vast right and left-wing conspiracy against Hillary Clinton
• Stephen Colbert weighs in on John McCain's controversial preachers
• Sen. Larry Craig is writing a book about his bathroom sex arrest
• The Daily Show analyzes President Bush's awesomeness
• Keith Olbermann names Dunkin' Donuts "Worst Person in the World" and calls for a boycott
• Wolf Blitzer stutters and laughs after being asked if he ever smoked marijuana
• Duly quoted: "The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors. You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, but I just don't remember." --George W. Bush, to Scott McClellan while he was campaigning for president in 1999, as recounted in McClellan's book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
• Create your own gas station sign
• Check out the Top 10 Dumbest Quotes of Campaign 2008
• Duly quoted: "[Bush] and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war." --Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, in What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --President Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
• Don't wait for John McCain to denounce his next unethical supporter. Do it yourself with the John McCain Denounce-O-Tron, brought to you by 23/6
• Satirical Political Report: Supreme Court Stops Reruns of HBO's 'Recount'
• Blogger Jon Perr reminds us that Jon Stewart warned McCain about "Crazy Base World"
• A Minnesota baseball team is giving away "bobble foot dolls" inspired by Sen. Larry Craig
• Jenna Bush tells Jay Leno that her mom's new nickname is "Mommy-zilla"
• 23/6: Hillary Clinton Thought Process Flowchart
• Barely Political presents a funny parody of Bud Light's "Dude" ad, with a political twist
• From David Letterman's Top 10 Things Overheard in Line to See the New Indiana Jones Movie: #2: "If I want to see an old guy running around, I'll go to a McCain rally"; and #1: "Shouldn't you be at the White House, Mr. President?"
• 23/6 uncovers John McCain's Web browser history, and what do you know, it turns out he's been searching About.com for economic advice
• Chuck Norris lays out his promises if he is elected vice president
• The Onion: Obama, Clinton, McCain Join Forces To Form Nightmare Ticket
• Duly quoted: "If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf." --Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), writing in a memo to colleagues about the Republican brand
• P.J. O'Rourke says that electing Democrats to control government spending is "like marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains"
• 23/6 looks at Barack Obama's struggles on the Oregon trail
• John McCain tries his hand at satire on Saturday Night Live
• See 10 clever protest signs
• Duly quoted: "That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He's getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him and he -- he dove for the floor." --Mike Huckabee, after his speech to the National Rifle Association was interrupted by a loud noise
• 23/6: U.S. lists polar bear as threatened species, joining GOP
• James Pence stars in an amusing viral video making the rounds: If I Were a Terrorist
• 23/6: John Edwards Thought Process Flowchart
• Check out our compilation of the Most Embarrassing Moments of Campaign 2008
• Watch priceless video footage of Bill O'Reilly's "Inside Edition" meltdown, as well as Stephen Colbert's imitation of O'Reilly
• Watch video of Barack Obama claiming he's visited 57 states
• See how President Bush is being portrayed in international advertisements
• Borowitz Report: Hillary Vows to Fight on for Edwards' Endorsement
• 23/6: Obama Not Ready to Cede White, Racist Vote to Clinton
• The Daily Show reports on Jenna Bush's wedding
• Borowitz Report video: Tyra Banks Has a Special Message for Hillary Clinton
• Minnesota Gov. Tom Pawlenty jokingly tells a radio audience his wife won't have sex with him
• The Onion: Number Of Acceptable Things Candidates Can Say Now Down To Four
• Borowitz Report: Bill Clinton Switches to Obama
• NBC makes it official: Jimmy Fallon will replace Conan O'Brien
• In honor of Jenna Bush's wedding, check out our comedic tribute
• Saturday Night Live drives a satirical stake through Hillary Clinton's heart
• Sen. Mike Gravel lobbies for the Obama Girl vote in the latest video from Barely Political. The outtakes are also amusing
• John McCain loses his bearings with a microphone
• Watch Hillary Clinton rehearse hand gestures in this spot-on impersonation
• President Bush has been in freefall for sometime now, and now so is Hillary Clinton
• Duly quoted: "But it's not impossible for Hillary Clinton to win. A lot of people have said that. Big Russ, if he were sitting here today -- nothing's impossible. Jack McAuliffe, if they were with us today, they're probably both in heaven right now Tim, probably having a scotch, looking down saying, you know what: this fight goes on. It's good for the Democratic Party. Millions of people coming out to vote, it's exciting." --Clinton chairman Terry McAuliffe, speaking to Tim Russert about his father, "Big Russ," who is still very much alive. Russert replied, "Big Russ is in the Barcalounger still watching this. God bless him."
• Is politics suddenly better than sex? The New York Times reports that magazines like People and US Weekly are now covering the presidential candidates in the same lusty manner typically devoted to movie stars
• What would it take for Barack Obama to lose the Democratic race? Slate presents the results of its Obama Doomsday Scenario Contest, featuring such possibilities as a video surfacing of Obama punching a baby.
• The Daily Show is very similar to The O'Reilly Factor, according to a new study by a journalism think tank
• Stephen Colbert wins 'Webby Person of the Year'
• 23/6: George W. Bush to gain son, Jenna Bush to lose her virginity
• Saturday Night Live has launched a new website for political junkies: SNL Politics, which showcases recent and vintage political humor from the NBC show.
• Jon McCain traded quips with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and joked about naming Dwight Schrute from The Office as his running mate
• Stephen Colbert still hasn't received an invitation, but he's eager for the Jenna Bush wedding
• President Bush will attend daughter Jenna's wedding despite the fact that there will be no pizza
• Jon Stewart mocks the media's marathon primary coverage, which left the cable news pundits testy
• 23/6: Secret McCain Campaign Slogan Memo Leaked
• Entertainment Weekly has a first look at Oliver Stone's W, which may be a comedy
• Huffington Post: The O-Bama Face is the New O-Face
• Check out our roundup of the best humor of campaign 2008
• Help Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama duke it out with the new Political Punch-Out Game, presented by Kewlbox
• Borowitz Report: Math Favors Hillary, Says Huckabee
• Hillary Clinton appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to present a list of the Top 10 Reasons Hillary Clinton Loves America. #1: "Apparently anyone can get a talk show."
• Are you a full-fledged Obamaniac, or a diehard Clintonista? Or are you insane for McCain? Take our handy candidate loyalty quizzes and we'll gauge your level of support for the White House hopefuls
• Borowitz Report: Obama Proposes Gas-Bag Holiday
• Barack Skywalker takes on Hillary Vader in must-see spoof video: The Empire Strikes Barack
• Watch the 2008 Debate We'd Like to See, an amusing animated cartoon by Kevin Kallaugher of the Economist.
• Watch an amusing video clip of Hillary Clinton trying to get a coffee maker to work
• YouTube video: Rev. Wright and Grandpa Simpson: Separated at Birth?
• Picture of the Day: It's official -- you are an idiot
• Barack Obama appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to present a list of the Top Ten Surprising Facts about Barack Obama #2: "This has nothing to do with the Top Ten, but what the heck is up with Paula Abdul?"
• Slate V presents everything you need to know about the Democratic presidential race in seven minutes
• Watch The Daily Show's week in review, featuring coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy and clips from interviews with Jimmy Carter and Newt Gingrich
• Duly quoted: "I truly believe that that is going to take an individual that has testicular fortitude." --Paul Gibson, president of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, explaining at a Hillary Clinton rally why she has the strength to take on tough problems like NAFTA
• With Cindy Sheehan set to run against Nancy Pelosi, conservative columnist Melanie Morgan pens an open letter in which she offers her help as a mediator
• 23/6 looks at old, black leaders who are not helping Barack Obama
• Check out a roundup of jokes and cartoons about Barack Obama's Jeremiah Wright problem
• FOX News can't figure out the difference between Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass
• Who's going to win? Ask the Democratic Primary 8-Ball, courtesy of 23/6
• View a collection of political cartoons about the slumping economy
• 23/6 presents Top 10 Outrageous Quotes from McCain's Spiritual Advisers
• President Bush tweaked the presidential candidates at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, and also fulfilled his dream of conducting the U.S. Marine band.
• Who's better, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert? A new poll conducted by Harvard shows how young people come down on that question
• Borowitz Report: Obama: Voters Fine, I'm Bitter
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs Hillary Clinton Is Exhausted. #1: So tired, she actually crawled in to bed with Bill
• 23/6 answers all of your political questions with the Political Pundit Chat Bot
• Keith Olbermann has 10 question for John McCain. #1: "Exactly how many times have you employed prostitutes?"
• Visit our newly updated gallery of 2008 election cartoons lampooning the White House hopefuls.
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Ways George W. Bush Can Improve His Approval Rating. #10: Fewer embarrassing gaffes, more humiliating blunders
• Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain courted the wrestling vote during taped appearances on WWE's "Monday Night Raw." The show also featured impersonators of Clinton and Obama facing off in a political smackdown.
• Jon Stewart is not prepared to call Hillary Clinton "Hill-Rod," smell what Obama's cooking, nor fend off the McCainiacs.
• Sen. Orrin Hatch has penned a glorious love song for John McCain
• Jon Stewart looks at the impact of the Pennsylvania primary on the news media, whose depression gave way to increasingly violent thoughts.
• Keith Olbermann tells David Letterman "most of us in news are not smart enough to figure out what's going on."
• Satirical Political Report: Top 5 Suggestions for Obama to Cut Into Hillary's Senior Vote
• Who's funnier, Obama or Clinton? Compare punch lines and parodies from the primary season
• 23/6 presents the Hillary Clinton Post-Primary Morning Show Talking Point-o-Tron
• Wonkette weighs in on the controversy sparked by a South Carolina church that posted a sign reading "Obama Osama Humm are they brothers"
• Stephen Colbert settles a dispute over whether Barack Obama is a copycat
• 23/6: If They IM'd: Old Bill Clinton and New Bill Clinton
• The Onion: Nation Agrees Not to Talk About Politics
• The Huffington Post presents an amusing slideshow depicting the presidential candidates as American Idol contestants
• In honor of Earth Day, watch the Green Team, featuring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Adam McKay as the driving force behind the environmentalist movement
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs President Bush Has Too Much Time on His Hands. #1: Finally catching up on unread intelligence memos
• During an appearance on The Daily Show, Barack Obama promised that he won't enslave the white race if he becomes president
• Barack Obama stars as Rocky Balboa in Baracky: The Movie
• Chelsea Clinton was mobbed for pictures during a gay pub crawl in Philadelphia. "I grabbed her ass!" one girl exclaimed.
• On the heels of Bruce Springsteen's endorsement of Barack Obama, Slate dreams up the perfect attack ad for Hillary Clinton
• President Bush joked about his low approval ratings during an appearance on Deal or No Deal
• Hillary Clinton can still win. Watch this amusing YouTube video and find out how
• Slate plays "Six Degrees of Adolf Hitler" with the presidential candidates, and Hillary Clinton wins
• Bill Maher weighs in on Barack Obama's so-called bitter elitism in his latest installment of "New Rules"
• 23/6 presents The Pennsylvania Democratic debate in 1 minute
• Watch the Sunday Funnies, featuring a highlight reel of the week's best late-night laughs
• Borowitz Report: Democratic Race 'Too Mean,' Say Swift Boat Veterans
• Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards all competed for laughs during a surprise convergence on The Colbert Report
• Check out highlights from Dick Cheney's comedy routine at the annual Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner
• Watch video of President Bush's papal gaffe, plus read the latest punch lines about Pope Benedict's visit to Washington
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Questions President Bush Asked the Pope. #6: "Could you perform an exorcism on Dick Cheney?"
• Michelle Obama charmed Stephen Colbert during an appearance on The Colbert Report.
• Will Ferrell brings back his Bush impersonation and ribs Jon Stewart as part of Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars"
• The Boston Herald printed a fake news story by Andy Borowitz as real news. The satirical story in question: Cheney Challenges Hillary to Hunting Contest
• The McCain Girls are out with a smash follow-up to their musical sensation, "It's Raining McCain." Watch "Here Comes McCain Again," presented by the comedic geniuses at 23/6
• Stephen Colbert, broadcasting from Philadelphia, sings the National Anthem with John Legend, and explains how Pennsylvania has become a flashpoint primary
• Cindy McCain's "family recipes" were lifted from the Food Network
• SNL spoofs Gen. Petraeus's Iraq testimony and pokes fun at the presidential candidates
• Bill Maher takes on the Olympic torch run, horoscopes, the extremist Mormon cult raided this week, and the Catholic Church in his latest installment of New Rules.
• Hillary Clinton drank beer and did a whiskey shot at a Pennsylvania bar. View the amusing photos, via Wonkette.
• Borowitz Report: Cheney Challenges Hillary to Hunting Contest
• The blogosphere is atwitter over a photo of Dick Cheney featuring what some say is a naked woman reflected in his sunglasses
• Duly quoted: "We could be naked or juggling and no one would even notice.'' --Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL), to Sen. John Thune (R-SD), on the presidential candidates taking all the attention during the questioning of Gen. Petraeus about Iraq
• Can the presidential candidates take a joke? The Los Angeles Times quotes me talking about how humor has become a major campaign tool in the 2008 election cycle
• The Daily Show administers a stunning smackdown of FOX News
• Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Check out the cartoon portfolio that won him the coveted honor
• Duly quoted: "Now that's my phone buzzing there. I don't want you to think I'm getting fresh or anything." --Barack Obama, while posing for a picture with supporters in Indiana, when he apparently felt his phone start to vibrate in his pocket, against which one woman was closely pressed
• Lewis Black finds out that Oprah is just as excited about Obama as the cast of Desperate Housewives.
• Duly quoted: "I'm a big fan of accessories. I'm married to one." --Michelle Obama, after mentioning the outfit worn by a local official during an appearance in North Carolina
• Jon Stewart looks at which of the three presidential candidates exploited MLK's assassination the best
• 23/6: If they IM'd: Hillary Clinton and Mark Penn
• Bill and Hillary Clinton opened up about their ability to make gobs of money during the opening sketch of Saturday Night Live
• Bill Maher lays down some new rules about the primary battle, saying it's time for Democrats to stop freaking out
• Opinions You Should Have: People Furious That Clinton Sacked Penn, Penn's Polls Show
• Hillary Clinton commiserates with Ellen, saying Chris Matthews "manhandles me every night"
• Conservative columnist Melanie Morgan looks ahead to Barack Obama's first day in office and Ann Coulter sounds off on Obama's "dimestore Mein Kampf"
• Hillary Clinton poked fun at herself during an appearance on The Tonight Show. She entered to theme song from "Rocky" and joked about being pinned down by sniper fire on the way to the show (Watch the video)
• Barack Obama bowls like a little girl
• Watch David Letterman and John McCain trade insults on the Late Show
• By now you've probably seen the hilarious Sarah Silverman-Matt Damon video about their faux love affair, as well and the Jimmy Kimmel-Ben Affleck video response. Now comes the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama version, via Perez Hilton. (Warning: contains explicit language)
• Jay Leno counts how many times Barack Obama touched himself while on The View
• President Bush has canceled the 2008 election, citing national security concerns
• Stephen Colbert wins a Peabody Award and laughs in Jon Stewart's face
• Borowitz Report: Market Tumbles on News That Bush Is Still President
• Comedy Central's Indecision 2008 blog has endorsed Alan Keyes for president
• Will Bunch looks at the laughs we missed if only Jay Leno and SNL had been there for Nixon, Hoover and Lincoln
• The Daily Show looks at the uptick in Iraq violence, or as the Bush administration calls its, "success"
• President Bush was roundly booed as he threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener. Watch the video
• Now you too can be told off by Chelsea Clinton with the Ask Chelsea Clinton About Monica Magic 8-Ball, brought to you by 23/6
• Geraldo holds a sing-off between Obama Girl and Hillary Girl
• Bill Maher on Hillary Clinton: 'Get elected or lie trying' (monologue video via Huffington Post)
• Borowitz Report: Hillary Vows to Stay in Race 100 Years
• April Fool's hoax: Black guy presidential frontrunner (23/6)
• About.com's David Emery gets to the bottom of an email rumor claiming Barack Obama is the antichrist, as well a photo circulating showing Obama holding a phone upside down
• Is it Jesus or Barack Obama? Take the quiz from Radar Online
• Jon Stewart has been quietly visiting ailing Iraq soldiers
• Hillary Clinton is related to Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama is related to Brad Pitt, according to a genealogical study
• MadKane: An Ode To Lefty Bloggers Who Hate Hillary
• BuzzFlash: Read the latest jokes and satirical poems by Tony Peyser
• Startling video footage has been discovered that proves Hillary Clinton wasn't lying when she said she was under gunfire in Bosnia
• Bill Maher has a New Rule: Catholics must get up out of the pew and walk out of the church forever (23/6)
• Watch Castro's Bucket List, an amusing spoof video by Super Deluxe
• Read a compilation of the 10 most obnoxious quotes by Clinton and Obama surrogates
• Borowitz Report: Hillary Says 8-Year-Old Bosnian Girl Was Actually Sniper
• Obama Girl is out with a new music video in which she begs Hillary Clinton to drop out of the presidential race. Meanwhile, it's "Raining McCain" in this new video, which now surpasses Hillary4U&Me as the worst musical endorsement of the 2008 campaign
• Here's an amusing new campaign logo for John McCain that's making that rounds
• Borowitz Report: Hillary Says She 'Misspoke' About Wrestling Bin Laden
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Signs the Government Is Spying On You: #4: After eating a falafel, your name was added to the "Do Not Fly" list
• Duly quoted: "So?" --Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to an ABC News correspondent after she cited a recent poll showing that most Americans do not believe the Iraq War was worth fighting
• One the five-year anniversary of the Iraq war, Jon Stewart looks back in time to see the Bush Administration's benchmarks for success after the start of the war.
• Fark: "NY Governor (the new one) follows last week's admission that he cheated on his wife by confessing to cocaine and pot use when in his 20s. Next week will announce he raped an underage nun while clubbing baby seals"
• Revisit the dumbest moves in political history
• Borowitz Report: Bush to Phase Out Environment by 2009
• P.J. O'Rourke compares American politicians to the Seven Dwarves
• Watch video of Chris Matthews dancing with Ellen and reaching around for a grope
• Footage of Eliot Spitzer's hooker, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, has been found in he "Girls Gone Wild" vault
• The Daily Show covers Barack Obama's speech on race
• Stephen Colbert promises to use the power of the "Colbert Bump" to swing the election to either Obama or Clinton
• Jon Stewart reveals a new segment that uncovers the sexual deviancy of each state's governor preemptively
• Borowitz Report: McCain Concludes Fact-Hiding Mission to Iraq; Mac: Omission Accomplished
• The Onion: Black Guy Asks Nation for Change
• Check out Eliot's Spitzer's revised resume, courtesy of the friendly folks at the 23/6 Career Services Center
• In a guest appearance on "Weekend Update", SNL alum Tracy Morgan responded to Tina Fey's endorsement of Hillary Clinton, saying, "Bitch may be the new black, but black is the new president, bitch."
• Will Durst offers 50 suggestions for John McCain's VP
• New York Gov. David Paterson made fun of his blindness, cracked a Jewish joke, and ribbed the GOP leader in his first speech
• Looking for home protection and survival gear to go with your crossbow or Samurai sword? See the item listed here in the lower right
• Borowitz Report: Obama Converts to Judaism; Bold Attempt to Settle Religious Issue
• Check out our roundup of cartoons and jokes about the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal
• Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels says the show does not have a pro-Hillary Clinton bias
• President Bush joked about daughter Jenna Bush's wedding, saying, "I had to face some very difficult spending decisions and I've had to conduct sensitive diplomacy."
• Borowitz Report: Ferraro: I Wish I Were a Black Man
• The Smoking Gun has photos of Eliot Spitzer's hooker
• President Bush surprised guests at the annual Gridiron dinner when he appeared on stage in white-tie and tails topped with a cowboy hat and sang a country-and-western parody gently mocking himself.
• Daily Kos's Cheers & Jeers presents the Liberal Manifesto
• Daily Show: Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, and Sam Bee weigh in on the Eliot Spitzer scandal
• Satirical Political Report: Larry Craig Demands Equal Treatment Under 'The Mann Act'
• Borowitz Report: Spitzer Resigns From Emperors VIP Club
• Opinions You Should Have: Spitzer: Stagflation Making Cost of Hookers Unacceptably High
• 23/6: New York Governor Only Hires the 'Classy' Emperor's Club Hookers
• Borowitz Report: Spitzer: I've Been Screwed
• How much do you know about the temper of John McCain (AKA Senator Hothead)? Take the quiz
• Saturday Night Live spoofs Hillary Clinton's 3 a.m. ad in a skit featuring an inexperienced Barack Obama seeking advice from Hillary Clinton.
• The Kansas City Star reports on how the presidential candidates have been trying to transform grins into wins by playing for laughs on late-night TV
• Mo Rocca thinks it's time for the presidential candidates to enjoy a little Spring Break from politics
• With Mike Huckabee abandoning the presidential race, we offer a comic tribute
• Larry David weighs in on the red phone and suggests an alternative ad Obama could run against Hillary
• President Bush tap dances for John McCain. The man simply can't stop dancing
• Does Hillary Clinton owe her campaign's changing fortunes to Saturday Night Live? Read my analysis.
• Borowitz Report: Saturday Night Live Abandons Comedy Format to Focus on Endorsements
• 23/6: Text Messages from Last Night's Primaries
• Hillary Clinton appeared on The Daily Show,trading quips with Jon Stewart on the eve of the Texas and Ohio primaries
• Watch Jack Nicholson's campaign ad for Hillary Clinton, featuring clips from Nicholson's movies
• Speaking of ads, John McCain is McSame As Bush
• Opinions You Should Have: Democratic Candidates Vow To Battle For Nomination Through 2009
• Watch highlights from Saturday Night Live, including Hillary Clinton's surprise cameo.
• Satirical Political Report: Obama Works the Refs: Gets 'Make-Up' Skit From SNL
• Borowitz Report: Bush Says He Lets Red Phone Go Straight to Voicemail
• Swift Kids for Truth wonders who really wears the pantsuits in the Clinton household, and whether Obama has a cocaine problem (23/6)
• Duly quoted: "Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --Barack Obama, exasperated by reporters after a news conference
• The New York Times profiles the SNL writer behind the much-talked about Obama-Clinton debate parodies
• David Letterman presents a spoof video on what Sen. Larry Craig is looking for in an intern
• It's 3:02 a.m. Do you know where Barack Obama is? A parody ad by Lee Stranahan
• Bill Maher takes on the GOP smear campaign against Barack Hussein Obama
• Check out our roundup of Ralph Nader ridicule
• John McCain accidentally declared himself a "liberal Republican"
• A debate is raging over whether Fred Armisen, who is not African American, is "black enough" to embody Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live
• Barack Obama once again showed off his dance moves for Ellen
• Suitors are lining up to sign Jay Leno after he leaves The Tonight Show in 2009
• The Daily Show covers the final debate between Clinton and Obama and the anti-Hillary conspiracy
• Hillary Clinton invoked a Saturday Night Live skit as evidence of a pro-Obama media bias. The SNL writer behind the skit says he was surprised by her remark.
• 23/6: Is the media biased against Hillary, or is she just too fat?
• The Daily Show weighs in on Obama and Clinton's use of hyperbole during the home stretch of the Democratic nomination
• Stephen Colbert says the photo of Barack Obama dressed in Muslim garb is not divisive - it brings the nation together in the belief that Obama is a terrorist.
• Current TV SuperNews: The Democratic Messiah?
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Ralph Nader Campaign Promises. #1: Get Bush re-elected like in 2000
• The Onion: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
• Lewis Black: Leave Mike Huckabee Alone!
• Check out highlights from the return of Saturday Night Live, including video clips of Mike Huckabee's surprise appearance and Tina Fey's endorsement of Hillary Clinton.
• Read Jon Stewart's political zingers from Oscar night
• 23/6 presents Ralph Nader's Thought Process Flowchart
• Duly quoted: "Critics say that (Obama's) campaign is turning into a kind of cult with his rallies seeming more like religious revival meetings. Supporters say that's ridiculous because religious revival meetings usually don't feature speeches by Jesus himself." --NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
• Some idiot stabbed his brother-in-law after getting into a fight over Hillary vs. Barack. Clearly, he didn't read How to Win a Fight with a Liberal
• The Onion: Bush Vows to Make It Up To Country Somehow
• Sen. Larry Craig (R-restroom) is looking for summer interns, saying "It is an incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our government functions."
• Hillary Clinton mocked Barack Obama, saying, "I could stand up here and say, 'Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect."
• Borowitz Report: Nader Announces Plan to Wreck Election
• Satirical Political Report: For New York Times, Self-Confidence on Journalism Poses Its Own Risk
• MadKane: Dear Ralph: Go Away!
• Bill Maher's New Rules: John McCain Is Old
• Borowitz Report: McCain: Lobbyist Did Not Force Me Into Positions
• The English language has become "Obamafied." Barack Obama is also your new bicycle.
• Satirical Political Report: Lobbyist 'Bares' All on Mr. Straight Talk Express
• Borowitz Report: Obama Calls Plagiarism Flap 'Best of Times, Worst of Times'
• Watch highlights from Real Time with Bill Maher, including the return of "New Rules"
• Satirical Political Report: Here's the 'Plagiarism' That's Really Troubling
• Borowitz Report: Roger Clemens Named New White House Spokesperson
• Writers for the late-night comedy shows returned this week after a three-month strike, bringing with them a barrage of political punch lines
• Obama has Will.i.am from the Black Eyes Peas producing inspirational music videos. Hillary has this. Enough said.
• Jon Stewart contrasts the media treatment of Huckabee and Clinton after a series of primary losses.
• Borowitz Report: Conversation with a Superdelgate, An Actual Transcript
• Duly quoted: "There's a greater chance that I would dye my hair green and get tattoos all over my body and do a rock tour with Amy Winehouse than there is that I would run for the Senate, so let me put that to rest. Somehow, just imagine me, green hair, on tour with Amy Winehouse, ain't happening, not running for the Senate, done deal, absolutely no way." --Mike Huckabee (Read more Hucakbee quotes)
• Chris Matthews gushed over Barack Obama, saying "I felt this thrill going up my leg" as he spoke
• Watch "John.He.Is" and "No You Can't," which spoof the popular Obama "Yes We Can" video
• Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel takes on his brother, Rahm Emanuel, the Superdelegate, and explains why he doesn't trust him to pick the next president
• Who are the Clinton loyalists? 23/6 offers an analysis of Hillary Clinton's remaining voting blocs
• Opinion You Should Have: Bush Calls McCain 'True Conservative', Other Names
• Satirical Political Report: Congress Authorizes Invasion of Roger Clemens
• Borowitz Report: Obama Wins Country Music Entertainer of the Year
• Number of Google search results for the words "Obama" and "messiah": 176,000 (Jon Swift)
• The parallels between Reese Witherspoon's monologues in the film Election and Hillary Clinton's campaign are uncanny. See Hillary Clinton's Inner Tracy Flick, presented by Slate
• Jon Stewart takes Mitt Romney to task for his reasons for dropping out of the presidential race and by-the-book speech on conservatism
• Mike Huckabee appears on The Colbert Report to prove that he still has a shot at the presidency, and beats Colbert in a game of air hockey
• The latest animated cartoon from Roadblock Republican takes aim at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: Whatever It Is, Mitch Is Against It
• Check out our newly updated gaggle of 2008 election cartoons
• From David Letterman's Top Ten Reasons Mitt Romney Dropped Out Of The Presidential Race: "Apparently America is not ready for a white male president"
• FOX News labels John McCain a Democrat
• From Opinions You Should Have: Romney To Spend More Time With His Money
• Satirical Political Report: Romney Quits GOP Race to Seek Democratic Nomination
• From David Letterman's Top Ten Signs John McCain Is Getting Too Cocky: "Now refers to Mike Huckabee as 'Mike Suckabee'"
• TMZ presents an amusing photo gallery of The Candidates: Then and Now
• David Letterman has been mercilessly mocking Mitt Romney
• Now, you too can write a Maureen Dowd column for The New York Times. Try the Classic Dowd Pointless Antiphonal Wordplay (CLADPAW), brought to you by 23/6.
• Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien appeared on each other's shows as part of an ongoing mock feud over who made Mike Huckabee. Get the full scoop and watch the hilarious footage.
• View ladies mock breathy Super Tuesday phone calls from Chelsea Clinton
• Borowitz Report: Democratic Race Poses Challenge for Racists, Sexists; Nowhere to Turn, Disgruntled Haters Say
• Hillary Clinton appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman on the eve of Super Tuesday. Asked about the role her husband would play in her administration, Clinton quipped, "In my White House, we will know who wears the pantsuits." (Watch video clip)
• Mad magazine asked Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists to draw on the theme of "Why George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming." Watch the slide show.
• Jay Leno is still winning the late-night ratings war, even though he's working without writers while David Letterman has his full team
• Borowitz Report: Huckabee Asks Jesus to Stimulate Economy; Loaves, Fishes Key to Package
• Are You a red-blooded Republican or true-blue Democrat? Take the Republican Loyalty Quiz or the Democratic Loyalty Quiz and we'll gauge where you fit on the political spectrum.
• Comedian Bill Maher endorsed Barack Obama in his latest monologue
• Watch Huckabee Girl, an amsuing parody of the Obama Girl Internet phenomenon
• John McCain took his campaign to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and teamed up with a surprise guest, Rudy Giuliani (Watch video clip)
• Borowitz Report: Hillary, Obama Get a Room; Candidates Bow to Request of Debate Viewers
• Check out our comic tribute to Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards
• Funny pic of the week: Obama snubbing Hillary
• Are you for 'Hill' or 'Bama'? Take the quiz (NY Times Laugh Lines)
• Jon Stewart weighs in on the end of the Edwards and Giuliani campaigns
• View editorial cartoons about Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama
• Jon Stewart covers Bush's "weird, oddly subdued, utterly insincere" State of the Union, as well as the "flat and boring" Democratic response
• David Letterman on Bush's State of the Union Address
• Revisit the funniest moments from the 2008 campaign trail
• Borowitz Report: Nader Warns Bloomberg Not to Run; Only Room for One Egomaniac in Race, Activist Says
• Satirical Political Report: Super Bowl To Feature Ad for 'Prez Lite'
• Three Huckabees for an Obama? New Topps baseball set includes presidential candidate cards
• Hulk Hogan throws his weight behind Barack Obama
• Play the 2008 State of the Union Drinking Game
• Jon Stewart covers Obama's big win in South Carolina
• Watch a classic State of the Union parody video in which President Bush talks tough and threatens the world
• John McCain and Miss Teen South Carolina sound off on economics (YouTube video)
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten Rejected Titles For The George W. Bush Movie. #2: The Nightmare Before Hillary.
• Dave Barry weighs in on the Florida primary
• Borowitz Report: Hillary Sends Bill on Campaign Trip to Antarctica
• David Letterman presents a trailer from Oliver Stone's "Bush" and also takes a look at "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches"
• The Internets are abuzz with speculation over the Romney Whisper Mystery
• Barack Obama presented a list of his Top Ten Campaign Promises during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. #1: "Three words: Vice President Oprah."
• Borowitz Report: Kucinich's Exit Stuns Lone Supporter
• John Edwards traded quips with David Letterman during an appearance on the Late Show, while Letterman made a point to mess up Edwards' hair
• Check out a compilation of funny political bumper stickers for 2008
• Writers from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report staged a mock debate on Capitol Hill.
• The Onion: Bill Clinton: 'Screw It, I'm Running For President'
• David Letterman presents the Top Ten George W. Bush Ideas For Stimulating the Economy. #2: Maybe not spending a billion dollars a month in Iraq?
• Had it with the presidential candidates? Take out your aggressions with two new animated games: Presidential Paintball, presented by Miniclip, and White House Joust 2008 from Kewlbox.
• David Letterman on Fred Thompson dropping out of the presidential race: "Don't worry about Fred, he can always go back to his prestigious fake law firm. ... Fred spent all day packing the bags under his eyes." (Read more late-night jokes)
• Hillary Clinton, impersonating an airplane flight attendant, jokes with the press corps aboard "Hill-Force One"
• Jon Stewart sounds off the South Carolina Democratic debate
• Mitt Romney received a prank phone call from his son, and thought he was talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Stephen Colbert's portrait has been hung near the bathrooms at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
• Borowitz Report: Bill Clinton Acting 'Like a Madman,' Says Kim Jong-Il
• Lee Stranahan presents A Message from St. Ronald Reagan (YouTube video)
• Watch highlights from Mitt Romney's interview with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show
• Duly quoted: "When we were in college we used to take a popcorn popper -- because that was the only thing they would let us have in the dorms -- and fry squirrels in the popcorn popper." --Mike Huckabee, completely freaking us out (Watch video clip)
• In honor of the 10-year anniversary of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, we invite you to take a titillating tour down memory lane with our collection of classic cartoons and photo parodies mocking America's former commander in briefs.
• Bushism of the Week: "There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world." --George W. Bush, addressing U.S. troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait (Read more Bushisms)
• Jon Stewart looks at Obama's and Hillary's escalating war of words.
• TMZ presents an amusing photo tour of horrifying political outfits
• Fresh off Mitt Romney's win in the Michigan primary (magic underwear, you finally came through!), Paul Slansky presents an amusing pop quiz on Romney (23/6)
• Republicans are having more sex than Democrats, according to a survey by Playboy magazine
• The editor of CollegeHumor.com assures us that young people will stage a revolution this election year, just as soon as they beat "Super Mario Galaxy" on the Wii. (New York Times Laugh Lines)
• From the Department of Unfortunate Phrasings, this press release sent out by the Clinton camp. "Hillary Clinton To Attend SEIU 32 BJ Event Honoring the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Monday" (Slate)
• The Borowitz Report: Bloomberg Still Deciding Whether to Buy the Presidency
• From David Letterman's Top Ten Things Overheard on George W. Bush's Trip to The Middle East: #2: "It's nice to finally put a face to the devastation I've created"
• During an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said, "Everybody gets it wrong at the beginning of a war."
• Reacting to press coverage of Hillary's "emotional meltdown," Jon Stewart says "That it?"
• Stephen Colbert talks about religion, immigration and guns with his running mate Mike Huckabee.
• Jon Stewart declares Chris Matthews insane
• After listening to pundits who blew the New Hampshire primary call, Jon Stewart wonders what he's going to do with his expensive Barack Obama graphic.
• From David Letterman's Top Ten Signs You're Watching Bad Election Coverage: #3: Correspondent spends most of the evening hitting on Kucinich's hot wife
• Mark Fiore animated cartoon: America's Guide to Crying
• The Onion: Bush Begins Preparations for Nation's Final Year (looks like my prediction for 2008 may turn out to be true)
• The Borowitz Report: Hillary Schedules Official Crying Jag for South Carolina
• Jon Stewart demonstrates that no writers are needed to rip Rudy Giuliani
• Here's your one-stop source for all of your campaign comedy needs, including the latest late-night jokes, political cartoons, spoof videos, quirky news, and other humor from the 2008 campaign trail.
• Jon Stewart returned to Comedy Central and announced that until the writers' strike is settled, he will be doing "A Daily Show with Jon Stewart," not THE Daily Show. He also weighed in on the writers' strike and the results of the Iowa caucus.
• Stephen Colbert also returned and declared that he is the only one who can stop Barack Obama, and that he and Mike Huckabee will be running as a team.
• The Simpsons poked fun at the presidential candidates, the political parties, the media, and just about everyone in a hilarious campaign parody featuring cameos by Jon Stewart and Dan Rather. Watch clips from "E. Pluribus Wiggum" via YouTube and The Huffington Post.
• The Borowitz Report: Bill Clinton Keys Obama's Car
• Hillary Clinton joked about how she has had her feelings hurt because voters like Barack Obama better.
• From David Letterman's Top Ten Signs Your Presidential Campaign Is Not Going Well: #1. You often ask, "What would George W. Bush do?"
• Bill O'Reilly got into a shoving match with an Obama staffer in New Hampshire. Keith Olbermann reenacts the incident with an episode of Bill O'Reilly Puppet Theater.
• Mike Gravel to teens: say "yes" to drugs
• The Borowitz Report: Hillary Repackages Herself as a Black Man
• The Onion: Area Family's Trip To New Hampshire Sparks Rumors Of Presidential Bid
• Hillary Clinton stops for pizza in New Hampshire and creates massive gridlock (TMZ video)
• HuffPost's Off the Bus looks at laughs and gaffes from the Iowa caucus
• The late-night comedians returned to the airwaves after a two-month hiatus. Read their latest political quips.
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