Late-Night Jokes Of The Week (VIDEO)

This week Letterman and Conan were off, but the other shows filled the late-night joke void.

Thanks to Bush's sit-down with Charlie Gibson, the economy and Obama's pick of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, the hosts had plenty to work with.

Below are some of the best from Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, plus a bonus joke from Craig Ferguson.

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Comments

[JTyroler]

For some reason, many Americans seem to adore mediocrity. We don't want "elite" people in positions that require people with special talents. I think that's about the only reason I can think why we allow our education system to perform so poorly. We really should be ashamed of ourselves as a nation, but many of us would rather have people barely able to work at McDonald's than pay more in property taxes to improve our education system.

[americanalien]

Thanks for the roundup HuffPost. At least we have a little humor to cheer up our hearts in these perilous times.

[berrycooda]

Cant wait to hear some of these critics 4 years from now.

When things didn't go the way the voters for P.E. Obama thought they would,
it will be the same bashers that are complaining now about the current President.

Too bad all these anonymous people aren't in the limelight so they could be seen
as they are. Bet they are not what they try to be when they make degrading comments
about the President. Just makes America look illiterate to the rest of the world.

SHAME ON YOU ..... Have the common decency to have some respect...­..
If not for the President, at least have some for yourself.

[mluo2010]

It's called comedy.

[tsog]

Shouldn't the President have respect for the constitution and the WHOLE country? Oh, I guess, respect is something you are born with not something you earn.

[BlueAsh]

Bush may sound stupid for sure, but make no mistake, when he signed off on the war in Iraq, when he signed off on torture, when he talked about using his political capital, he knew exactly what he wanted to do and he executed his wishes to perfection.

That doesn't sound like a dummy to me.

[Yarrr]

I agree. He may not be a genius, but he's not the blundering fool people make him out to be.

[unrepresented]

One of my favorite descriptions of "Shrubya" goes not to his intellectual liabilities, but to his sociopathic arrogance: He was born on third base but acts as if he hit a triple. I truly wish I could remember who said it so I could accredit them properly. Lacking that memory, at least I can say - "Brilliant!!"

[MrPunch]

I believe that "born on third base, thinks he hit a triple" line is from the Pearl Jam song "Bushleaguer," so credit probably goes to Eddie Vedder.

[JTyroler]

I think the late Ann Richards said that about the current President Bush. She also said, "he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" about Bush I.

[callings]

oh, my. after you arrived in president, dimwit, country so good didn't do and came war and crapped the economy. stupid this is hard to very be. alfred e. newman meets ee cummings.

[dadw5boys]

History will just show that the people of this era were brutal and stupid.

[RobHughey]

All the mistakes, bloopers and out-right lies of the past eight years...

...and the man still refuses to accept his own culpability.

Just when you think your opinion of George W. Bush can't possibly go any lower...

[bandillero]

"during I arrived in President"?

Bush is a complete nincompoop

[OrganOfThought]

you are being too nice to him

[Giada]

We did elect Dan Quayle ....

Today's polls for the Republican party show support of a Huckabee/Palin ticket in 2012.

(The preacher and the beauty queen, new sitcom, currently in development. Yes the Dems will be first again).

[phoquemyope]

Gawd, pullllllll­llllllllle­eeeeeeeeea­aze let them be the ticket!

[Liberoservative]

I hope that the do exactly that!

Your sitcom idea in awesome and would get into most homes to show the rest of the fence sitters how divisive the religous conservataive republicans truly are.......­....

[BlueAsh]

Huckabee/P­alin--this would be great fodder for comedy, if it wasn't so darn scary for the country.

[Yarrr]

Don't be scared, such a ticket would be soundly thumped.

[barklesswagmore]

runner-up wannabe beauty queen that is

[youknowwhat]

Whatever Bush is drinking, he needs to share.

[Tobiason]

whatever it is it must be relaxing.

[Archivist1000]

No way ... let him have all of it .... and A LOT of it.

[OldKnute]

OMG,,

Just think of what his drinking habits will be like, once his National Security Minders are not there to monitor his drinking activities. He will just tell Laura to mind her own business and most of his remaining friends drink too, maybe not to the excess that Bush does, but he will surely be around alcohol.

I doubt if he will try to run for any office again so the Public Image motivation to reframe, will be gone too.

I guess we will see, and from before, we know that Laura had threaded to divorce him over his drinking.

Time will tell, but I can’t help thinking this is why Laura wants a house in town,,, Not the Ranch.

All the best

Knute

[Oregonobama]

Apologies for the zenophobia, but it will be nice on Jan 20, 2009, to have a president again who speaks English.

[DogTown]

so true!

[CrankyCurmudgeon]

Apologies for the correction, but it's Xenophobia; and, it isn't to wish the so-called leader of our country can actually speak the language of the land.

[pfc1369]

No correction necessary.

Zenophobia is correct when referring to the fear of Asian men in saffron robes who speak English only slightly better than Shrub.

[jfor]

What will really be nice is watching Hannity trip over any three syllable words Obama might use.

[JGC1010]

Or maybe it's Zena-the-W­arrior-God­dess-phobi­a.

[JohnCharles123]

I really don't see how this constant denigration, depreciation, and vilification of a sitting American President helps the country here at home and especially abroad. No wonder the world has a low opinion of our country. The constant negative "PR" for 8 years takes it's toll, and the mean spirited nature of disparagement of any human being is quite shameful. Is this what the Democratic Party has come to? "Bush lied, people died". We look mentally unstable, embracing a Bush Derangement Syndrome.

[Agent420]

You should get your news from somewhere other than Faux News. The facts are that the world is just as happy as we are to make fun of "The Idiot" and as far as I'm concerned they are speaking the truth. In future dictionaries under such words that have been to describe him. Next to the definition will be a picture of "The Shrub."

My advice to you is: You don't have to keep drinking the Kool-Aid, the election is over and our freedom will return on January 20, 2009.

By the Way, Bush lied and people died. Prove that it is not so.

[Idablu]

People are still dying and the decider had the nerve to admit that he was unprepared for the war!

[Lark817]

Eight years of constant negative PR would be bad. It was about 4-1/2 years, though, and the negative "PR" was directed at those of us who disagreed with the policies of the Bush administration. We were called unpatriotic traitors if we didn't go along with every dangerous, idiotic, outrageous, harebrained scheme these clowns could dream up, each worse than the last. Remember how Democrats, liberals, and just plain intelligent people were treated from about September 2001 until around early 2006? So, yeah, there was a lot of negative PR but it wasn't directed at Bush until far too late. We look mentally unstable? Give me a break? We knew he shouldn't be president. We knew he didn't win the election. We knew things would go terribly wrong with Bush at the helm. We've been right all along and the Republicans still can hardly admit it. The Constitution of the United States has been trampled upon. At this point, we'd look unstable if we weren't outraged.

[mercyrocks]

oh do shut up!

[zakgreene]

It helps a lot. It shows we hold our leaders accountable for their actions. I personally am proud of that and think it should happen a lot more.

[StillIRise]

"The constant negative 'PR' for 8 years" emanated from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The media simply reported it, and the American people merely reacted to it. The world's low opinion of Bush is because of Bush's policies that impacted the world community, not because of our disapproval of Bush - they shared in that disapproval!

The Democratic Party did indeed seem to be mentally unstable by allowing Bush and the Republicans to get away with so many things that ultimately shaped the low regard for Bush, but Democrats and Americans of all political stripes woke up and collected our senses when we finally realized the lies and corruption that this administration has scammed us with. And the most egregious lie was the lie that led us into Iraq in which thousands of our troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have died. Bush in fact lied, and people in fact died. This is not a syndrome; it's a reality.

Acknowledging the wrongs of a sitting president is what democracy is all about.

[PhilipTaylor]

Instead of a library how about a shoebox!

[Matt7]

Video? Cliff Notes?

[Orangerie]

I think he skipped school and had a little too much fun. It's tragic that soldiers and civilians have died and will still die. Isn't he at the army/navy football game today eating peanuts and drinking coca-cola?

[Idablu]

He needs an arts & crafts room!

[Archivist1000]

He needs a jail cell.

[Stilts9]

The Bush years have been a "Golden Era" for comedians and cartoonists.