Tuesday's Best Late Night Jokes: Inaugural Edition (VIDEO)

Tuesday night the late-night hosts turned around a bevy of inaugural-themed jokes.

One from Craig Ferguson:

Two million people watched Obama take the office... There! In Washington! Two million people there! Freezing cold! I think Obama owes a debt to President Bush on this. The only reason the crowd was that big is they're all unemployed and they have the time!

Related:
Watch Stephen Colbert sob over the beauty of the Obama kids on inauguration day.


WATCH THE JOKES:

Comments

[1success]

03:50 PM on 01/25/2009

I just watched this video again and it's just as hilarious as it was the first couple of times! I love how it looks like Obama is trying his hardest not to crack up

[Yermammy]

10:57 PM on 01/22/2009

LOL! That's what I say! SCREW ORANGE!

[leavesofgrasse]

07:12 PM on 01/22/2009

AM I the only one that enjoyed her poeM? the imagery was beautiful and accessible. THought it was way better than the Maya Angelou performance years ago.

THe last ditty was a classic "poem" from the civil rights. Ti's not really a poem; just a summary to people on their "place" in society...I remember this as a kid.

[mattybinks]

10:02 AM on 01/22/2009

When we can rise above the minutia of fuscia is HY_LARIOUS!

[msjimmied]

09:36 AM on 01/22/2009

I liked Lowery's speech. At his age, he can say that and have us listen respectfully. A little comic relief and well timed. The rest was the fervent benediction required.

A poem can do many things, evoke a mood or an emotion, tint your perception, transcend the ordinary...all that and more. That particular poem did not match the tenor and emotions of the day, hence it did not hit the mark.

The hat...oy.

[sb250guy]

09:18 AM on 01/22/2009

Hey poetry snobs! Lighten up!

Good poem......Bad poem,

Like poetry.......Don't like poetry,

Whatever!

I'm sure Jon Stewart knows that most poetry doesn't rhyme. He's not stupid. It was still funny though.

[Tom Lawyer]

08:38 AM on 01/22/2009

When the lady started the poem I turned the channel.

[Vixter]

09:53 AM on 01/27/2009

and saw (heard) the same thing - the inauguration was on all channels...unless you have a satellite dish.

[TimmySlagle]

02:51 AM on 01/22/2009

Bush jokes, Clinton jokes...

Gee, anybody doing OBAMA jokes?

He is the President now, you know.

[devadasi]

01:08 AM on 01/22/2009

John, you're comment about the poet was idiotic and demonstrates you're part of the problem, not the solution. It was a good poem and it was well read. and fyi, most poems do not rhyme.

Americans are so freakin dumb.

[Amalek]

02:06 AM on 01/22/2009

Sorry, that poem was awful. I can only pretend to be an east coast intellectual sophisticated liberal for so long. I thought the black preacher was hilarious though - more my style of literature.

[rhan]

06:25 AM on 01/22/2009

Sometimes, it is better to call a spade a spade. That poem was awful. Poetry is beautiful if there is something to it other than prose. not a bunch of statements.

[leavesofgrasse]

07:14 PM on 01/22/2009

Not an awful poem at all.....you may just be accustomed to Dr. Seuss, though while masterful in his own right is hardly literary.

[preatorius]

12:01 AM on 01/22/2009

When white is not so up tight!

[leavesofgrasse]

07:15 PM on 01/22/2009

Or drunk on their own might...always willing to fight and indifferent to the brown man's plight.

(pretty good huh?) LOL

[preatorius]

12:00 AM on 01/22/2009

Jerk!

[EndangeredJackalope]

11:13 PM on 01/21/2009

When Chartreuse, can cut loose..

[leavesofgrasse]

07:15 PM on 01/22/2009

LOL

[uglyhumanbeing]

11:02 PM on 01/21/2009

slam poetry rings true, no need to dis the once oppressed.

[leavesofgrasse]

07:16 PM on 01/22/2009

Once? did something change?

[honeydiva]

10:07 PM on 01/21/2009

;-/

[HotLeper]

11:01 PM on 01/21/2009

\-;

[Jeff8462]

09:38 PM on 01/21/2009

one persons humor is anothers put down.... how many Obama supporters are wishing Palin was back now! let the games begin..... to everyone that thought Jon Stewart wasnt funny... Whaaaa.. whaaaa..whaaa.. cry me tear....

[SurrealPumpkin]

07:38 AM on 01/22/2009

Palin left?

[Richterscale]

09:27 AM on 01/22/2009

"how many Obama supporters are wishing Palin was back now!"

I think I'm safe at guessing...zero.