Letterman Writers Can't Come Up With Obama Jokes (VIDEO)

Mocking the president is the bread and butter of a late night show and now our favorite hosts have lost the biggest source of humor at their disposal because Obama is competent. Well, Letterman writer Joe Grossman thought he could fix this by coming up with some awesome Obama jokes. He failed.


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[PuddinPie]

Funny, funny stuff! Loved it.

[Peter007]

So far Obama hasn't done anything that could be considered controversial. He hasn't had to make any decisions that have any immediate effect.
In eight years , Bush had to make a decission after we were attacked by a movement without a country. He had to deal with incompetence at the state and local level with Katrina. He had to make a decission on a financial crisis.
Obama is just acting out an administrative role. He's like a bureaucrat. He's following the policies already in place.
Government policy decisions usually have winners and losers.
After a few years, we will begin to hear from the losers of his new policies and they may be quite loud.

[NedroidPrime]

So Katrina was all the fault of the state and local governments? Of course, it has NOTHING to do with Brown heading FEMA.... Or how about all of the gutting that FEMA went through when DHS was formed?

[GH]

Katrina was fault of the weather, failure of the levee systems was failure of decades of neglect and government fraud/corr­uption-mos­tly at the local level-and a bit more with the corp of engineers. During the 90's, w/money more abundant, next to nothing was done to protect NOLA/gulf coast. Clinton's response to numerous hurricanes and to great Mississippi floods of 1994, was pathetic. One should remember that Homestead Florida, 10-12 years after Andrew was a disaster. What did the Fed's do? Close their military base-pull out.

The first major failure with Katrina was failure of the City/State to have a plan on the books. The second, was waiting at 24 hours too long to order the mandatory evacuation (ignored Bush's personal phone calls requesting it). The next series of mistakes had to do with Gov. Blanco not requesting military assistance, which Bush had offered. She was also late and disorganized with the guard. Then Louisiana banned the Red Cross from entering New Orleans for 5-6 days. Red Cross is the standard bearer of aid(food, water, medical supplies) for FEMA. There was not a supplied emergency shelter available to those stranded behind.

Federal? The Democrats push (which Bush opposed) in creating the Fed. Department of Homeland Security, ended up with FEMA under an umbrella of bureaucracy - this was a huge mistake. And yes, Brown was lousy as well. But it was nature, history, and the local and state governments which caused over 1100 deaths.

[Ohsnap]

I'm sure Republicans will think this is funny.

[rdiaz921]

- + mesmerised

Letterman allows the country to see that his writers are too stupid to come up with Obama jokes, although material abounds. (Material abounds for any president, for chrissakes). That, or they won't make jokes against sacred cow. Let's see, which one do YOU think it is...

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Response to the above post:

you are wrong on both counts. They can't make fun of a man who is self deprecating enough to be able to make fun of himself. How do you make fun of someone who is well adjusted and STRONG enough to not take himself so seriously.

[mesmerised]

Letterman allows the country to see that his writers are too stupid to come up with Obama jokes, although material abounds. (Material abounds for any president, for chrissakes). That, or they won't make jokes against sacred cow. Let's see, which one do YOU think it is...

[yellowdoggie]

I'm intrigued. What is the abounding material for Obama jokes? Watermelons growing on the White House lawn? That kind of material? Big ear jokes? Come on, mesmer, tell us what jokes you would make.

[BarryBonez]

you're right. it's impossible to make jokes about Dear Leader. he is so faultless, he must not be tarnished.

[BarryBonez]

What a non-story. Letterman's writers cant come up with jokes about anything.

[ThirdSection]

I hear Wanda Sykes will be roasting the President at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend. I'm confident that her hard-hitting style will garner many a guffaw.

[Archivist1000]

oh geez ... don't you guys get the point of that segment???

It wasn't about 'not being able to write jokes' ........... of course they could .......

[Fathoms]

One from the, "Sad Facts Department," at the Home Office back in Waukegan Illinois:
Neo Cons are incapable of comprehending this form of humor. It really isn't their fault. Research indicates it's congenital. Further proof of this phenomenon is their incapacity to Grok the underlying POV of the Colbert Report.

[learneddemocrat]

Ah, c'mon. Obama has certainly said alot of funny things. "57 states", "Massatusetts" "yesterday when I was in Michigan.....oh, wait that is today and this is Michigan" , "Cinco de Cuatro." Hey, guys, no one is perfect.....no even this prez. Writers can find comedy anywhere. Ponder this: are they too enthralled, enchanted, or maybe even afraid? Presidents have always been the target of jokes, esp. for late night talk shows. Why not now? It truly cannot be for lack of material!

Ullyses, lighten up. Even we democrat/librals have to admit he is a great, no superb speaker when the teleprompter is a-going, but when he has to "think on his feet"....well, he is not so good. Lots of uhhhhhs.

[eden4barack08]

"WE democrat/l­ibrals.."?­? BWHAHAHAHAHA, of course you're not.

[eraofpeace]

I'd rather have a President who's sincere and searches for the right word with a lot of "uhhhhs" than one who recites talking points without a clue about what they mean, or deliberately misleads the public.. Kinda like Sarah Palin or past prez Bush.

[impik]

Yea, this Obama is a problem. Too smart and too cool. What can you do.

[MomfromTexas]

The writer was hysterical! Letterman is still the best. Love the guy.

[afgail]

It is so easy to make fun of those who do stupid things or say stupid things. So far Obama hasn't done or said anything stupid. I guess that is the difference between having a legacy president who was selected by the Supreme Court and one that earned it by getting the majority of votes in a national election.

[dolphy]

Next presidential election, let's get Palin or Jindal. No writing needed. Just show the press conference and interview vids.

[cyoohoos]

"Cheap Shot" why not go for the Grey Poupon?

[ibsteve2u]

Ok - we'll just change Boehner's name to Grey.

Did you hear what Obama said when the White House press corps asked him to respond to the nonsense spewed by Grey? "Poupon him!"

(I knew all of that practicing I did in the third grade would someday justify how often and painfully that teacher stretched my ear out.)

[GH]

Oh - Huff Post - how hypocritical can you get. Folks, right in the beginning of the clip.. "..and then Clinton came in and... Bingo..." Did you catch the edit (censorship)? Cut it right out, they did. Not allowed here, would be that Letterman blamed Clinton's sexual advances with what he referred to as the "heavy set intern." Come on the joke was the overweight hands on President abusing the office of we the people. Huff is so sensitive that they cut it out? It was only one quick line.

Obama jokes should be a dime a dozen, Dave.

I've been to all 57 states.

We inherited this mess.

Trying to kiss the King of Saudi Arabia's ring.

My Vice President Joe Biden

My wife's new $540 tennis shoes.

My staged questions at town hall meetings

How I raked in more money from the big financial companies - and the press didn't notice.

All of those glowing halo shots of me.

I get credit for saying the same things that President Bush said all the time.

Oh, yea - and scaring the ____ out of NY residents flying my big plane around the city with a fighter jet on it's tail.

What's with Rahm Emanuel's middle finger?

I inherited all this? Well, that's what happens to new administrations. Remember what Bush inherited? What goes around - comes back to haunt you. Might as well joke about it.

It really doesn't get any easier than this, Dave.

[pragmaticdallasite]

Wow, somebody's a bitter partisan today!!!

[GH]

No. I think editing out what hand full of words from Letterman was being bitter partisan. The fact that Letterman can't find anything funny about the goofs from this President and Vice President (not to mention the out and out blunders) is bitter partisanship. They should all be treated equal - in fact, I believe that each side should hold their own to a higher standard -- that is, if we want change.