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Palin 2012: Saturday Night Live combines Sarah Palin and the disaster movie "2012" to imagine a world in which Palin wins the presidency

Al Gore appears on SNL's "Weekend Update" and announces that he's come up with a new tactic for getting people to care about green issues, which is to start acting crazy

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

Tina Fey does Sarah Palin at Ad Council dinner. "Mrs. Palin and I continue to have so much in common," Fey said. "They recently made a porn movie about Sarah and then this same porn actress, Lisa Ann, played me in a parody of '30 Rock' ... And weirdly of the three of us, Lisa Ann knows the most about foreign policy."

Al Gore appears on "30 Rock" and gives Kenneth the Page advice on green living

Stephen Colbert appears On "Letterman": "Obama Is The Meryl Streep Of Presidents"

• See our complete Rogue Palin Ridicule Roundup, including digs from Stewart, Colbert, Conan, Letterman, and others.

Jon Stewart explains to conservative pundits why he doesn't like Sarah Palin: "When you peel back the pretty, shooty layers of the Palin onion, there's no onion. It's just a conservative boiler plate mad lib."

David Letterman presents the Top Ten Highlights From Obama's Interview With FOX News

• Test your Palin-tology with Going Rogue: The Quiz, by Paul Slansky

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Sarah Palin didn't put an index in her book. So Slate created one for her. See the Going Rogue index.

Joe Biden provides few laughs, gaffes in Daily Show appearance, the first ever by a sitting vice president

The Onion: Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

• See our roundup of jokes about Sarah Palin's book. "Sarah Palin's book is big, 400 pages. She wrote the book herself and agonized over every word, and so will you." --David Letterman

Borowitz Report: Palin Looking Forward to Reading Her Book

• Will Tina Fey reprise her SNL role after Palin chats with Oprah?

Saturday Night Live comes down on the Obama administration for caving on the public option

Saturday Night Live skewers Lou Dobbs, with Darrell Hammond playing the former CNN host

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

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

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 March

Jon 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.


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