"Recent Quips From Late Night - Take 47" joke
“The New York Times says Ralph Nader is thinking of running for president again. We couldn’t be more excited. … Nader says he rejects the term spoiler. It’s a lot better than loser. ” –Jay Leno
“They’re getting ready to unveil President Bush’s presidential library. The committee in charge of President Bush’s presidential library said they want the building to reflect the spirit of the Bush presidency. So they said, ‘In other words, we’re just gonna build some stuff and see what happens. ’” –Conan O’Brien
“You remember Dick Cheney, he’s the vice president of the United States. He shot an old man in the face and didn’t tell anybody. Eventually, the news got out. Turned out the old man was fine. It was a hilarious story, and the old man ended up doing the right thing [on screen: atty Harry Whittington apologizing to Cheney’s family for the amount of media coverage]. At the time we all thought, ‘My God, how do you shoot an old man in the face … and get him to apologize? Ohh, Cheney. He must be evil. What’s he hiding? What are his secrets? ’ Well, as it turns out, what he was hiding is everything. ” –Jon Stewart
“CNN, of course, was referring to revelations that Dick Cheney’s office has for years refused to comply with an executive order requiring him to report how he was classifying secret documents. In fact, rather than comply, Cheney attempted to abolish the agency in charge of the oversight. But unfortunately, since you can’t shoot an entire agency in the face, he resorted to a different tactic. Cheney now claims he doesn’t have to follow the executive orders because he’s not a member of the executive branch. Now before you say, ‘Oh my God, the vice president’s a crazy person that under normal circumstances wouldn’t even be allowed to operate lightweight machinery, ’ listen to his argument: He’s not part of the executive branch because he’s also president of the Senate, a legislative body. … It’s like the Harlem Globetrotters saying they were part of Scooby and the Gang, even though they only showed up once at a haunted amusement park and once on some Christmas special, which doesn’t even count” –Jon Stewart
“He is correct. For Dick Cheney exists neither in the executive branch nor the legislative, yet simultaneously in both. He is neither man nor beast, yet has elements of the twain. He is at once everything and nothing, substance without form, shape without motion, time without reason. He is the highlander. ” –John Oliver, on Cheney claiming the systems of checks and balances do not apply to him
“Hillary Clinton has a new campaign ad that spoofs ‘The Sopranos’ finale. In the ad, she orders carrot sticks at a diner, then switches the jukebox to a Celine Dion song. Hillary’s calling the ad a lot of fun, and Bill is calling it a chilling window into his personal hell. ” –Conan O’Brien
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