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Jon Stewart responds to Sean Hannity's apology: "Nothing's worth sitting through his show"

• Check out the week's best late-night jokes and the week in political cartoons

Jon Stewart discusses Lou Dobbs's decision To 'Go Palin'

• Take a look back at the 100 funniest pictures of the decade

Stephen Colbert demolishes Sesame Street's conservative critics

The Onion: U.S. Deports Lou Dobbs

Jon Stewart catches Sean Hannity falsifying footage to make protest appear bigger

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Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right

• Take a look back at the decade in seven minutes, courtesy of Newsweek

The Onion: Afghan Presidential Election A Celebration Of All Forms Of Government; Democratic, Autocratic, Despotic, Theocratic Ideals On Full Display

Stephen Colbert defends Barney Frank over pot bust kerfuffle

Jon Stewart mocks the use of leis, babies, and the Holocaust to argue against health care reform

Borowitz Report: Fox News Reports: Millions of Grannies Flee U.S. as Death Panels Loom

Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler rip apart Goldman Sachs on SNL's "Weekend Update" for getting preferential access to the swine flu vaccine despite massive shortages nationwide

Saturday Night Live mocks FOX News's election coverage

Jon Stewart impersonates Glenn Beck, touts crazy conspiracy theories, cries

William Shatner performs a poetic reading of Levi Johnston's Tweets

The Daily Show nails cable news election panels

The Onion: Congress Approves $500 Billion For Monument To Human Folly

• See a roundup of the 10 funniest moments from Obama's first year in office

The Onion: Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

• Here are some politically inspired tricks and treats for Halloween, including Ten Spooktastic Daily Show-inspired Halloween Costume Ideas, and Bill Maher's Republican House of Horrors

Jon Stewart takes on the media and Joe Lieberman over the public option: "You know what's worse than being sick and not having health insurance? Having to sit through the Lieberman filibuster that kept it from you."

Stephen Colbert suggests breeding master race to solve health care crisis

Did Arnold Schwarzenegger use a secret code to say "f**k you" to legislators?

The Onion: Obama's Declaration Of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert get pumped up over Bush's motivational speaking career

• Is there a more insane, delusional, and paranoid whack job in America than FOX News Channel's Glenn Beck? Read this compilation of the Top 10 Craziest Glenn Beck Quotes and judge for yourself.

• Levi will be exposing his Johnston in Playgirl

• Here's what the Revolutionary War would have looked like with lightsabers

Finally, an accurate description of The Daily Show, thanks to a DVR screw-up

The Onion: Nation's Morons March on Washington State

NotTheLATimes: Obama Flexes Nobel Muscles, Brings Peace to 'Lost'

• "The Rock Obama'" beats up Senate opponents on Saturday Night Live

• There's a Rep for that: Get to know your Republicans in Congress with this snarky iPhone commercial parody

Bill Maher looks back on the year in ridiculous Republicans

• See the 10 funniest signs at the National Equality MarchJon Stewart takes on 30 Republicans who voted against anti-rape amendment

Auto-Tune the News takes on the UN, Obama's Nobel, and healthcare

Borowitz Report: GOP Claims Olympia Snowe Was Born in Kenya

The Daily Show takes on FOX for not covering gay rights march

Jon Stewart slams CNN for fact-checking Saturday Night Live while allowing politicians to freely lie without being challenged

David Letterman presents Things More Fun Than Reading The Sarah Palin Memoir

• Watch Sarah Silverman's campaign to end hunger: "Sell The Vatican Save The World"

•  Onion News Network: Obama to Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire

• See a funny ad from the campaign to ban divorce in California

Satirical Political Report: Top Ten Changes Rush Limbaugh Would Bring to the St. Louis Rams

Obama wins every award on the planet

• See our complete roundup of Obama Nobel jokes

David Letterman presents the Top Ten Reasons You Won't Win a Nobel Prize. #1: "Barack Obama flew to Sweden to plead on your behalf"

SNL takes on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: "I Won It For Not Being Bush"

President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, along with everything else

Stephen Colbert skewers Glenn Beck for constant tears, conspiracy theories,  and general Insanity. Colbert comparing Glenn Beck to himself: "It's like looking into a mirror…after you've done a ton of coke off it."

• See South Park's best political moments, courtesy of Comedy Central and Indecision Forever

Borowitz Report: Nobel Insiders: Beer Summit Sealed It For Obama

Hillary Clinton intervenes in Conan O'Brien Corey Booker feued

Borowitz Report: NBC Pressures Leno to Have Affair

See Politicians Gone Wild: Song and Dance Edition, featuring the 12 most laughable song and dance routines of all time

Forget Waldo. Where's Obama? See the Best Wedding Slideshow Ever.

The Onion: Obama: Health Care Plan Would Give Seniors Right To Choose How They Are Killed

David Letterman apologizes on the air to his wife

Tom DeLay drops out of Dancing With the Stars. Watch him dance his last samba.

Found: GOP Caucus Theme Song

The Daily Show on Chicago's Olympic loss: Jon Stewart: "Conservatives hate Obama more than they love America."

P.J. O'Rourke offers the Constitution in 12 tweets (hat tip to Laugh Lines)

SNL hits Obama with sketch detailing all his failures in office, and CNN fact checks SNL

The Daily Show hits Democrats for giving polluters a free pass on Cap-And-Trade

The Onion: Secretary Of The Ulterior Clearly Vying For Better Cabinet Position

Paul Slansky looks back at the Preposterous Week in Review

David Letterman's late-night rivals joke about his sex and extortion scandal. Jay Leno: "If you came here tonight for sex with a talk show host, you've got the wrong studio."

David Letterman acknowledged that he had sexual affairs with female employees and that someone tried to extort $2 million from him over the affairs. Watch the video of Letterman’s admission from Thursday's "Late Show."

• Some are asking whether Letterman should be shamed the way he has shamed other public figures who have been involved in affairs.

Jon Stewart destroys Democrats for not getting the public option passed

• Which political figure are you? Take the quiz at BuzzFeed

Borowitz Report: National Association of Undertakers Backs GOP Health Plan

Onion News Network: Poll: Happy, Healthy Obamas Out Of Touch With Miserable Americans

• White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee won the annual "Funniest Celebrity in Washington" contest after giving a comedy routine in which he called Sarah Palin a "wingnut"

• Leave it to Republicans to screw up another fine American tradition -- the pin-up calendar.

David Letterman presents the Top Ten Sarah Palin Tips For Writing a Book

Jon Stewart schools Sean Hannity about history and the food chain

Stephen Colbert takes aim at the relationship between legislators and health care lobbyists

Jay Leno and Bill Maher read sexual emails from politicians

• In the latest installment of "New Rules," Bill Maher asks "WTF Happened to 'Yes We Can?' ... Can we get out of Iraq? No. Afghanistan? No. Fix health care? No. Close Gitmo? No. Cap-and-trade carbon emissions? No. The Obamas have been in Washington for ten months and it seems like the only thing they've gotten is a dog."

Jon Stewart defends the NEA and school children from Republicans and Fox News

Saturday Night Live spoofs Moammar Gadhafi's crazed and rambling U.N. speech

Take a horrifying look at the Worst Political Tattoos Of All Time, courtesy of HuffPost Comedy

David Letterman presents the Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Spending $63,000 On Dinner With Sarah Palin

SNL's Weekend Update Thursday mocks Obama's media blitz, Glenn Beck's descent into insanity, and Bill Clinton's secret tapes. See highlights.

Jon Stewart mocks the media for calling Obama "overexposed"

Borowitz Report: Mental Patient Breaks into U.N., Gives Ninety-minute Speech

• Here' a translation of Muammar Qadaffi's rambling UN speech, presented by Funny Or Die and comedian Michael Hayne

Jon Stewart takes on the Values Voter Summit and the declaration that all porn is gay porn

• Did Glenn Beck kill a frog on live TV?

Tom DeLay shakes his booty on Dancing With the Stars. Oh, the horror!

Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm and other celebrities trash the Public Option in a sarcastic "Protect Insurance Companies" PSA, presented by Funny Or Die• During an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman, President Obama addressed whether recent attacks on him were motivated by racism by quipping, "It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election." Letterman presented a list of the "Top 10 Reasons Obama Agreed To Appear On David Letterman." #2: "Said 'yes' without thinking...like Bush did with Iraq."

The Onion: George W. Bush Chuckles To Self Upon Thinking About How He Was President Of The United States For Almost A Decade

Bill Maher rips Sen. Baucus's healthcare bill: "I'm going to start going to town halls and screaming now"

Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets heckle Obama

• See a series of amusing parodies featuring President Obama wielding a lightsaber

SNL lampoons Joe "You Lie" Wilson and explains how he came to make such a fool of himself during Obama's health-care speech

Lewis Black takes on angry outbursts from the likes of Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams

• Watch a preview clip from "Capitalism: A Love Story," Michael Moore's new film about the root causes of the financial meltdown

• In the latest Internet meme, Kanye West interrupts everyone from Barack Obama to Joe Wilson to Sarah Palin• The Daily Show slams ACORN amid corruption revelations

The Onion: U.S. Government Finds $20 Trillion Buried By Absentminded Reagan In 1987

• What do presidents really say in private? Obama on Kanye West: "He's a jackass." Bush on Sarah Palin: "What is she, the governor Of Guam?"

• Here's a look at what teabagger signs say vs. what they mean, courtesy of BuzzFeed

Jay Leno conducts an amusing mock interview with President Obama.

• After a three-week hiatus, The Daily Show returns to take on Joe Wilson's outburst and Glenn Beck and the Tea Party protesters

• A satirical activist group calling themselves Billionaires for Wealthcare staged an amusing counter-protest at last weekend's Tea Party in Washington. With a self-described goal of "profiting off of our broken health care system," the protesters carried signs that said, "Let Them Eat Advil," "Warning: affordable health care may cause severe loss of profits," and "Cigna-Palin 2012." Watch their protest song "Let's Save the Status Quo."

Opinions You Should Have: Kanye West Interrupts Delicate Senate Finance Committee Negotiations, Scuttles Health Care Bill

Bill Maher challenges Obama: "Stand up for the 70% Of Americans who aren't crazy"

Funny pic of the day: Thank you FOX News

Take a look at Joe Wilson throughout history, presented by Funny Or Die and comedian Michael Hayne

Tina Fey wins an Emmy for her Sarah Palin impressions on Saturday Night Live

• Want to see Levi's Johnston? Bristol Palin's baby daddy is posing for Playgirl

• The late-night comedians skewer Joe Wilson. "It's not the Jerry Springer Show. You can't stand up in the middle of Congress and say 'Oh no you did not!' What the hell is wrong with you? He said his emotions got the better of him. Sometimes I want to have sex with a hooker, but I don't!" --Craig Ferguson

New Gingrich accidentally names a porn executive "Entrepreneur of the Year"

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-Tourette's) is being widely heckled on the Internets for yelling "You Lie" during Obama's address to Congress. Check out a roundup of ridicule targeting Joe the Heckler, including choice snippets from the new Website: Joe Wilson Is Your Pre-Existing Condition.com

• See 13 classic hot-mic gaffes caught on tape, courtesy of HuffPost Comedy

Borowitz Report: Wilson Shouts 'You Lie' After Wife Fakes Orgasm

• The GOP family values crusader who resigned his California Assembly seat after being caught on tape talking about kinky sex with a lobbyist is now denying having an affair

• See the Top 10 Presidential Speeches Interrupted by Hecklers, presented by BuzzFeed

• Here's what the right is really afraid of: Obama's zombification of our children

• Here's the speech Obama should have given to Congress, if he had balls

• Watch "We're #37!" -- a little song celebrating our position at #37 in the world in healthcare.

• See Saturday Night Live's best presidential impressions from the 1970s until today

• Slate has a compilation of the zaniest details from Rod Blagojevich's new book

Paul Slansky looks at the preposterous week in review, including the insanity of Joe Wilson, Michael Duvall, and others

• Check out our roundup of the 10 most ridiculous quotes by health care reform opponents

Sen. Al Franken draws a map of the United States from memory

• YouTube video: Hitler Finds Out Obama Will Address Schoolchildren

Borowitz Report: Sanford: Finally, I'm No Longer the Biggest Douche in South Carolina

NotTheLATimes: Nation's youth acting suspiciously after Obama school speech; Socialist behavior up 36%, authorities say

In a Vanity Fair expose, Levi Johnston calls Sarah Palin a phony who doesn't actually hunt and whose family would laugh at her when she made an idiot of herself on TV.

Auto-Tune the News takes on Chuck Grassley over healthcare metaphors and Joe Biden's long-winded speeches.

David Letterman takes on Chris Wallace for his softball interview with Dick Cheney

A satirical Internet hoax claims Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990.

A health care protester had his finger bitten off in the line of duty

The Onion: Waletless Biden Found Handcuffed to Bedpost

Glenn Beck is not only insane. He also can't spell. See him make a fool of himself on FOX News by accusing Obama of trying to create an "Oligarhy."

Levi Johnston says that he and Bristol were pressured by Sarah Palin to let her adopt their baby in order to avoid public embarrassment/

Ben & Jerry's new Hubby Hubby ice cream flavor celebrates gay marriage

Onion News Network: Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?

Satirical Political Report: Cheney Claims Detainee Torture Was Merely 'End-of-Life Counseling'

The Onion: Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta

Full Mental Beck: Watch 12 minutes of the craziest conspiracy theory rants you've ever heard on television, all from Glenn Beck, all targeting Barack Obama, and all delivered during the past week.

View a series of editorial cartoons commemorating Ted Kennedy

Does the government release information to avoid Daily Show coverage? Things are starting to look a little suspicious.

David Letterman defends Obama's summer reading list with a shot a Rush Limbaugh

They didn't call him "Tyrannosaurus Sex" for nothing: memorable quotes by Ted Kennedy

Here's a look at what real-life "death panels" might be like, courtesy of Funny Or Die.

Jon Stewart grills the originator of the "death panel" lies, calls her ideas "hyperbolic" and "dangerous"

Watch Bill Maher's New Rule: No Shame In Being The Sorry Party

Sen. Arlen Specter mocks town halls, Viagra, and Sarah Palin in comedy routine

Check out a collection of funny protest signs, brought to you by the town hall crazies and other idiots

Jon Stewart demonstrates how Fox News has turned into the liberal media by defending protesters, criticizing the president and shoving its values down America's throat.

Watch a tribute rap video to "Barney Frank: The Original Original Gangster,"  presented by HuffPost Comedy

Onion News Network: White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase

Jon Stewart gives props to Barney Frank for confronting a Nazi name-calling protester, while Stephen Colbert stages a debate between Barney Frank and a dining room table

Britney Spears appears in a bikini on the "Late Show With David Letterman" and reads the "Top Ten Ways the Country Would Be Different If Britney Spears Were President."

Rep. Barney Frank rips apart a deranged protester who compared Obama to Hitler at a town hall, asking, "On what planet do you spend most of your time?"

• See the 10 Loudest and Most Hilarious Barney Frank Outbursts, courtesy of BuzzFeed

The Onion: Congress Deadlocked Over How To Not Provide Health Care

Borowitz Report: In Move to Appease Critics, Obama Promises to Extend Health Care Coverage to Morons

Jon Stewart to Obama: "Why can't you guys just stay's on message?"

Tom DeLay will appear on "Dancing With the Stars." Let the mockery commence.

Bill Maher explores what a health care "death panel" might look like

Jon Stewart rips the cable news networks for giving airtime to the town hall screechers and treating them as experts.

Borowitz Report: Bush Refuses to Read Cheney's Memoir, Calling It 'A Book'

Jon Stewart on media coverage of the Clintons: Can the Clintons do anything without it being reduced to a 'Real Housewives' episode?

The Onion: Congress Beginning to Suspect Sen. Mark Warner Might Be Homeless


Jon Stewart takes on the town hall crazies who are orchestrating protests over healthcare reform

• Worst Elvis impersonator ever: Rod Blagojevich is back, and this time he does to Elvis what he did to the Illinois governor's office.


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