Obama Kills At WHCD: ‘Approval Ratings Are High In Country Of My Birth’ (VIDEO)

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:07 pm, May 1st, 2010

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Well if his day job doesn’t end up working out President Barack Obama may have a comedy career to fall back on. Obama addressed the star-studded crowd (for Washington, anyway) at the White House Correspondents dinner tonight — a.k.a the “nerd prom” — and from all accounts he stole the show. Poor Jay Leno, after the the whole Team Coco debacle he now has to follow a President who can bring the funny. Serious funny. This man is not afraid to take a shot for the sake of a good laugh. Some zingers and full video below.

“Biden talked me into it. He leaned over and said this is no ordinary dinner…this is a big, f*cking meal.”

“I’m glad to see the only person who’s ratings…fell more than mine is here tonight. Hey good to see you Jay.”

“I hear I am big on Twitter…Facebook….or, as Sarah Palin calls it “Socialized Media.”

On the Salahis: “There haven’t been people more unwelcome at a party since Charlie Crist!”

“I’m also glad I’m speaking first – because we’ve all seen what happens when somebody takes the timeslot after Leno.”

“I had my heart set on the Nobel prize for physics…you can’t win them all.”

barack obama, Jay Leno, Nerdprom, WHCD, White House Correspondents Dinner

MediaWhore

Surely there’s a limo driver somewhere in DC tonight that dropped off an attractive young woman at the Correspondents Dinner, which just HAPPENS to be the same place Obama was tonight.

Come on, if I can connect those dots, surely the National Enquirer can….and that means Mediaite should be all over this breaking story.
coreyA20

I watched much of Obama’s attempt at being funny. He is not funny. His jokes fall VERY flat. I honestly had to turn the channel.

Last year I watched him at the Alfred E. Smith dinner/roast. The same. (See on Youtube)
Newsjunky

Best part was showing clip of Rick Snatchez being a total idiot, as usual, on-air…. he is a laughing stock…. even peeps in the audience were laughing at him…
JamesA1102

Obama Kills????

Tomorrow Drudge will have a headline about the President being suspected of murder. Then on Monday Mediaite will run a story on Drudge’s story about the President suspected of murder.
Averreauxii

“coreyA20 says:
May 1, 2010 at 11:51 pm

I watched much of Obama’s attempt at being funny. He is not funny. His jokes fall VERY flat. I honestly had to turn the channel.

Last year I watched him at the Alfred E. Smith dinner/roast. The same. (See on Youtube)”

He was very funny. You are just a humorless, self-loathing, rightwing hater.
http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1005/obama_tops_leno.html
Big_F-ing_Deal

“I watched much of Obama’s attempt at being funny. He is not funny.”

Try taking the stick out of your ass.
Uncle_Meat

Quote:
“His jokes fall VERY flat.”
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Poor baby! After 8 years of laughing AT President Malaprop W. Bush, the drunken little sociopath who could neither think nor speak, laughing WITH President Obama is a pleasant and welcome change.
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m

I can understand why you didn’t think Obama was as funny as Bush. Bush was a natural buffoon. He was a complete idiot, basically like a cartoon character. Tap dancing? Bonga drumming? I can’t freaking believe he used to be our President. Makes me depressed, not laugh…
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Obama was very funny. He may have a new job soon. He wasn’t just funny last night he is funny everyday. I just love it when he says there is some point where we have made enough money. I just laughed and laughed. I loved it when he said we could keep our doctor and our current health plan. They was very funny. I am still laughing at that one.
Barney

Wow..this Obama tongue bathing is a surprise. His performance at the White House Flock of Sheep dinner will no doubt be declared the funniest perfomance in the history of mankind.
MarkStr82Hell

Joe Scarorough from MSNBC said this morning: “the president as BRILLIANT as a comedian but Leno fell flat because quite honestly you don’t make fun of the president” Oh, Joe! You are a washed up sell-out.
CNN has their killer Rick Sanchez and MSNBC is now to have both you and Spitzer. Are they no liberals out there who aren’t thugs?

http://surftofind.com/scandal
ChrisNH

“There was a massive car bomb in Times Square, but I thought it was more important to come to this Comedy Club instead.” (uproarious laughter from assembled Liberal media hacks).
MarkStr82Hell

ChrisNH says:
May 2, 2010 at 8:29 am
“There was a massive car bomb in Times Square, but I thought it was more important to come to this Comedy Club instead.” (uproarious laughter from assembled Liberal media hacks).

That’s what happens when MSNBC keeps replaying her Timothy McVeigh special. It’s copycat behvaior induced by the media, similar to several of the fraudulant Toyota incidences
Barney

Massive oil slick threatening our coasts. ….attempted terrorist attack that would have killed hundreds in Times Square…

…but Jug Ears’ priority is the White House Flock of Sheep Circle Jerk
Jim R

He was much better than last year, and a pleasant departure from looking for WMD’s under tables, hilarious as Rove, Cheney, and Rumsfeld undoubtedly found that particular venture into Presidential humor.
JamesA1102

Jug Ears’ priority is the White House Flock of Sheep Circle Jerk

Please Bush went to these dinners every year he was President and was often very funny. I can’t believe how some people are just so blinded by their ideology.
Averreauxii

You cannot convince these teabaggers. They can’t help themselves. They are suffering from a mental disease. It’s called ODS – Obama Derangement Syndrome.
roxsteady

Pathetic! You wingnuts still can’t get over the fact that he crushed the GOP in 2008. He was hilarious last night and the brain dead media deserved him needling them. You folks should see help for your Obama derangement syndrome. It’s not pretty. As for this oil spill, try to rap your tiny brains around this. BP is solely responsible for this disaster. And remember that it’s your side who wants to drill all over our country’s coatslines. The President agreed to this in exchange for Republican votes on energy policy. This is what the country would be seeing on a regular basis if those dumbasses were in charge.
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

You want COMEDY?!1 Hey MarkSrt82Hell, tell us what you think about the BLACKS!!1
stoogedudes

They should have gotten Sarah Palin intead of Jay Leno. Every word she says just makes me fall to the floor laughing.

Awwww…she thinks she knows what she’s talking about…how cute. Her and Michelle Bachmann should go on a comedy tour…oh wait…
StewartIII

ChickaBOOMer| Jay Leno: “This is a tough room.”
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2010/05/jay-leno-this-is-tough-room.html
StewartIII

NewsBusters| Mediaite Gushes: ‘Obama Kills At White House Correspondents Dinner’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/05/02/mediaite-gushes-obama-kills-white-house-correspondents-dinner
stoogedudes

Isn’t it funny how far right sites like NewsBusters think Mediaite is in the tank for the far left and how far left sites like Media Matters is in the tank for the far right. I guess it’s proof that this site is a little balanced!
stoogedudes

Pardon me, I made a typo…I meant to say how far left sites like Media Matters think Mediaite is in the tank for the far right…sorry.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

I guess $arah Palin is funnier, but that is what a grifter and a con does…….

Great first year, President Obama, God Bless America.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Schleping-Perkins/100000304600910 Gary Schleping Perkins

What a funny guy..
http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Schleping-Perkins/100000304600910 Gary Schleping Perkins

@Averreauxii

Why do you bother..
eingriff

So even a communist can be a comedian. At least he (or his writer) has one saving grace, a sense of humor.

His ratings are high in Hawai’i? Well of course, he’s a native son, scion of Stanley Arthur Dunham and an obliging Polynesian wahine, adopted at birth by Stanley Arthur’s daughter Stanley Ann and the Luo tribesman Barack Hussein Obama. Maybe the Great Pretender’s maternal line runs to Hawai’i's last Queen, Liliuokalani. That would make Obama America’s first Royal Hawai’ian President, if he were eligible to the Ofice of President under U.S. Const. Art. II Sec. 1. Unfortunately, his adoptive father Obama the Luo tribesman makes him ineligible, because Obama the Luo was an alien. Not a natural born citizen, with even one parent an alien.

If the limo driver preserved anything the Great Pretender left behind, like a cigarette butt, the epithelials might be used to disprove Stanley Ann and Obama the Luo as birth parents and help confirm his true birth parents.

The game is up, Obama baby; let’s see your original birth certificate, and the amended birth certificate reflecting adoption by Stanley Ann and Obama the Luo. The political minstrel show is over.
proudpatriotusa

The reason Obama is not funny to right-wingers is because they are hard-wired without an actual sense of humor.

The right thinks “An American Carol” with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 12% was a laugh riot.

And of course there was the Fox New’s right-wing comedy disaster, “The 1/2 Hour News Hour” which lasted all of 15 episodes and had to be laugh-tracked to let the audience in on the joke.

Then there’s Americas most unfunny, funny man Dennis Miller.

The right is hard-wired without a sense of humor, it’s like being born gay.

Right-wing humor is an oxymoron.
Jim R

Birther insanity, how quaint. Too bad that ilk kept their mouths shut when their pals were robbing the country blind and starting illegal wars.

Many were gleeful participants in the last Republican jihad against a Democratic President, cheering an 84 million dollar sex investigation and 1,052 Republican congressional investigations against Clinton during record setting economic performance and more broadly shared prosperity than previous decades.

Why do conservatives only shoot their mouths off when the country is trying to recover from the latest conservative republican economic disaster or foreign policy debacle?
kieronnpollard

fun. This man is not afraid to take a stab in the interest of a good laugh. Some zingers and full video below.
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Disfuncion

Fun. Long time since I did not laugh like that:)