The photo above — the visual joke to the President’s line at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner that Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) had recently named a high school in Obama’s honor — was, by and large, the only mildly amusing moment from Obama’s remarks. And even that one required you to pause the DVR to appreciate in full. (“Home of the “Fighting Chomskys'” is an instant classic, as far as I’m concerned.)
Beyond that, the President, who is normally very good and very funny at these things — his delivery and timing are, more often than not, pretty damn hilarious — was far off his game on Saturday night. Chalk it up, perhaps, to jet lag after his week long Asia swing.
That said, in comparison to the disaster of “comedian” Joel McHale’s painfully unfunny string of read-off-a-piece-of-paper, knee-jerk one-liners that followed, Obama was a comic genius!
So, if you didn’t slog through the hours of unedited CSPAN coverage of “#Nerdprom” on Saturday as we did (you’re welcome!), rest easy that you didn’t miss much.
The only thing definitely worth catching, aside from the photo above, was the killer funny video package featuring Vice President Joe Biden and VEEP star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose titular character on the HBO series has just announced her run for President.
That video, with some pretty hilarious moments — including several very funny cameos and a ton of priceless, spot-on Bidenisms — is really the only thing worth catching up on from the otherwise dreadful affair on Saturday night.
So, here ya go! This version has bonus footage on top of what aired Saturday night. Again, you’re welcome. And enjoy!…
Hey, Biden was pretty good! I was nicely surprised.
Wow. Gotta disagree with you on this (very important issue).
I thought the Biden piece was slow and tedious, and that Obama’s presentation was very good. But I do agree that Joel McHale’s effort was a terrible failure.
If this was the most entertaining thing at the Correspondents Dinner, then it is further proof that the Washington media is too much in bed with the politicians. They have developed the same thin skin as the Republicans. It shows that they can’t handle the satire and whit of someone like Stephen Colbert anymore. They don’t want to be told to their face that they have become spineless and have not earned their paychecks in years. This is why I rarely watch news from major media outlets and prefer other venues. I don’t need to hear spin, I want to hear what is happening. I want reporters not stenographers.
Green News is better than the Washington Post.
Alex –
To be fair, they did have an in-person comic (Joel McHale) who offered all kindsa in-your-face barbs to Dems and Republicans alike. Trouble is, the jokes were stale, knee-jerk, poorly delivered and, frankly, just not very funny no matter who was the target.
Thus, the funniest thing of the night (at least in my opinion) was that video. FWIW.