Dead Birds Fall Onto Letterman's Set During Monologue (VIDEO)

Tuesday night on "The Late Show," David Letterman jumped on the falling dead birds mystery that's been gripping the nation since the new year began.

At the top of his monologue, dozens of fake, dead blackbirds seemed to fall from the sky onto Letterman's set. This was all the set-up he needed to take one of his coveted jabs at Obama's vacation habits:

"On midnight on New Year's Eve, thousands of birds fell dead right out of the sky. Where was Obama? Vacationing in Hawaii, that's where he was!"

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Comments

[Carson12345]

12:36 AM on 01/09/2011

I'm waiting for the funny part.

[Sara Mae]

02:29 PM on 01/07/2011

Oh dave, davey davey dave.

[MMMMarilyn]

02:01 PM on 01/07/2011

Pretty clever.
Vent elsewhere. Maybe a Kardashian blog?

[lillianvargas]

03:55 PM on 01/06/2011

I'm sorry, but David who?

[Taliese]

01:06 PM on 01/06/2011

We are not amused, Dave.

[Ryan Kenneth Leddy]

03:57 AM on 01/07/2011

I'm fairly amused.

[Taliese]

12:17 AM on 01/08/2011

How sad.

[Rasheed Kalifani Knowles]

02:37 AM on 01/06/2011

Score! For the most part that was the funniest Letterman monologue in a long time. Every crack worked except for one (guess).

I'm still chuckling.

[random100]

01:24 AM on 01/06/2011

I still love Letterman.

[sean from boise]

01:16 AM on 01/06/2011

It wasnt hilarious but you have to admit the rethugs have blamed everything else on Obama. Obama was there doing everything he could to handle the BP oil spill and as he was there and meeting with Jindal, Jindal went public saying that the President wasnt helping just a few hours after talking with the president. I could hear the GOP trying to blast Obama for taking a well needed vacation just because he did it while some birds fell out of the sky. I've heard reports of how Obama has taken more vacation time than any other Prez. It is complete and utter bu//$**t. George W. spent 977 days on vacation. 487 days at Camp David and 490 at his ranch. That is over 2 2/3 years on vacation. So even though Letterman wasn't hilarious, I appreciated his humor. BTW, the only person I know who has had that much time off from work is unemployed and looking for a job.

[bloggolb]

01:14 AM on 01/06/2011

These comments seem to be all in agreement - so cens*ored from HP

[SmolderingRuin]

12:46 AM on 01/06/2011

He's telling more dead bird jokes tonight, so apparently he still thinks it's funny, even if nobody else in the world does. What a jerk. His career should be so over.

[gypsynomad]

07:58 AM on 01/06/2011

X2 on that SR...

[ltague]

08:41 PM on 01/07/2011

Agreed!

[Bluesue]

12:34 AM on 01/06/2011

That was supposed to be funny? More like sick.

[sephia]

11:36 PM on 01/05/2011

When you see how the birds might have died it is not so funny

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978878401

[bogey1]

11:54 PM on 01/05/2011

agreed
dying of birds wasn't funny and neither is Letterman - time for him to go meet Larry King for breakfast everyday

[MMMMarilyn]

02:02 PM on 01/07/2011

Guess you won't be calling the Colonel tonight.

[MidwestCoast]

11:58 PM on 01/05/2011

Found a related link that said: To the direct reason for Wheeler’s murder, this report says, was this past week’s transport of Iraqi Phosgene poisonous gas aboard a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft from Little Rock Air Force Base enroute to Afghanistan that shortly after takeoff had a ‘critical malfunction’ of its aerial spraying computer directed command and control system over central Arkansas causing the deaths of thousands of red-wing blackbirds. read more www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1435.htm"

[MidwestCoast]

12:23 AM on 01/06/2011

So that means we actually DID find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! But when we actually found it, we had to keep it a secret. Wait a minute, that means that the Bush administration would rather have looked foolish for not finding weapons of Mass Destruction (or at least letting the rest of the country think they did not) when it actually they DID find weapons of mass destruction but they had to keep it a secret from Putin (and thus the American people too).. I wonder if Bush could have just said to the American people, "look can you keep a secret? I did find weapons of Mass destruction in Iraq but just do not tell Putin"

[hellotiki]

11:29 PM on 01/05/2011

Dead blackbirds are not funny. Rubber chickens! Now THAT'S funny!

[syndibird]

11:04 PM on 01/05/2011

Yet, another low for you Mr. Letterman (and this comment is coming from a fan that's quickly becoming less fanatic by the second.) New writers......please!

[Heavenhound]

10:43 PM on 01/05/2011

Absolutely nothing funny about this. What were he and his writers thinking?