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Here are some snippets from John McCain's appearance last night, August 25, 2008, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. . . (see video)

John McCain was on Jay Leno last night, and he proves once again that he’s a down to earth guy. His self-deprecating humor and comfort help him come across as natural and not forced. Plus, he’s funny...

LOS ANGELES — Now it’s John McCain’s turn to make age jokes about himself. Walking onto the set of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" Monday afternoon, McCain had the funnies cued up: “You forgot to mention that I warned the people about the British coming,” McCain said after Leno introduced the senator as a hero. McCain added that he’s so old that “my Social Security number is eight.” Leno wished McCain a happy birthday in advance of his 72nd birthday on Friday, and this time Leno had one in the holster: “We were gonna have a cake, but the...

As many of us already know, McCain did a good job last night (8/25). So far, however, I haven't seen any link to the video. So, here they are if you missed the interview yesterday. McCain on Leno Part 1 tags. McCain on Leno Part 2 tags.

The film industry's blacklist is dead — unless you happen to be openly conservative...... ------------------------------------------------- In 2004, before anyone had even seen The Passion of the Christ, before Mel Gibson would drunkenly reveal his darker side, leftists poured out of the entertainment, academic, and religious worlds to unleash an unholy hell on the film and its maker. Too late to stop the film (it had secured distribution), the goal was therefore two-fold: to hurt the movie financially (which obviously failed), but also to launch a pre-emptive strike against any filmmaker thinking about following Gibson’s lead and scampering off the liberal...

The joke's on McCain: Late-night comedians lay off Obama A hilarious new study of late-night political jokes, due to be released later today, finds the network comedians clearly avoiding humor about Democratic candidate Barack Obama, while piling the jokes on President Bush and Sens. John McCain and Hillary Clinton. The study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs finds that only cable's Comedy Central, whose primary comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, more closely follow the day's headlines -- which have been dominated by Obama -- has slightly more jokes about the freshman Illinois senator. The study covered all...

Opening Oct. 3. From what I've seen and heard, this is a must see movie. Chris Farley's brother plays Michael Moore. A conservative movie from Hollywood, it's unique.

IT’S been more than eight years since “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” made its first foray into presidential politics with the presciently named Indecision 2000, and the difference in the show’s approach to its coverage then and now provides a tongue-in-cheek measure of the show’s striking evolution. In 1999, the “Daily Show” correspondent Steve Carell struggled to talk his way off Senator John McCain’s overflow press bus — “a repository for outcasts, misfits and journalistic bottom-feeders” — and onto the actual Straight Talk Express, while at the 2000 Republican Convention Mr. Stewart self-deprecatingly promised exclusive coverage of “all the...

Here's something you don't see every day: a film spoofing revered Hollywood liberals such as schlockumentarian Michael Moore. Yet, that's exactly what David Zucker, the film director that has brought America such comedy classics as "Kentucky Fried Movie," "Airplane," and "The Naked Gun," will be offering viewers soon with a movie entitled "An American Carol" (trailer embedded right).

travisandjonathan Style: Sketch Joined: October 23, 2005 Last Sign In: 15 hours ago Videos Watched: 13,299 Subscribers: 13,394 Channel Views: 456,571   http://www.travisandjonatha... http://www.redstateupdate.com    http://www.myspace.com/redstateupdatesongs    All Music Guide review "How Freedom Sounds": At first glance, the comedy duo Red State Update may look like a Blue Collar Comedy Tour ripoff, but they're the darlings of progressive online magazine Salon.com and on the buddy list of "those liberal nonproliferationists" CNN. Thanks to their video submission, it was on said cable news network that young bumpkin Dunlap (played by Jonathan Shockley) and the overalled, Uncle Jesse-esque Jackie Broyles (Travis...

SHH! It’s the John Edwards sex scandal. Bu don’t tell anyone… Says Ken: If you only read Respectable Newspapers and avoid the morally corrupting influences of blogs, tabloids and Jay Leno, it might be news to you that Democratic boy wonder John Edwards is the alleged star of a creepy sex scandal. The story has everything a cable-news producer or magazine editor or soap-opera writer could ask for: adultery, political power, a monstrous mansion, betrayal, cash transfers, terrible lies, vanishing evidence, a fall guy, a saintly wife dying of cancer, a late-night hotel rendezvous in Beverly Hills, even a “love...

David Letterman, who a month ago doubted George Bush and Dick Cheney have any “humanity,” on Wednesday's Late Show pushed a guest to confirm “that George Bush's administration is clearly guilty of war crimes.”

The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled “An American Carol.” The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles....

 

I believe comedic change is possible. Since the New Yorker dropped a bum joke on its cover this week, comedians have appeared on every news outlet to whine about how hard it is to make fun of Barack Obama. Really? They have an arsenal of jokes to use against a 71-year-old ex-POW cancer survivor and Obama is too touchy a subject? I'm here to help. I called some comedian friends to compile a guide to making fun of Obama. The consensus is there's not yet one standout attribute to pound away on (McCain is old! Clinton cheats on his wife!...

Late night hosts are a bunch of hacks Everyone with two brain cells to rub together has noticed it: the hosts of late night shows are tagging McCain with the age thing over and over and over and over, but they're basically leaving Obama alone.(Okay, I'm not in the group who's noticed, not because of a dearth of brain cells, but rather because you won't catch me in the same room as a TV showing Letterman or O'Brien or whoever. My wife, however, has kept me apprised.) Now, apparently, we have our answer as to why they're leaving Obama alone:...

When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean for them. “It seems like a President Obama would be harder to make fun of than these guys,” I said. “Are you kidding me?” Stewart scoffed. Then he and Colbert both said at the same time: “His dad was a goat-herder!” When I noted that Obama, in his memoir, had revealed that he had done some pot, booze and “maybe a little blow,” the two comedians began riffing about the dapper senator’s familiarity with drug slang. Colbert: Wow,...

A New York Times article reveals that late night comics are having a hard time making jokes about Sen. Barack Obama. From the article: What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet. On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from both Democrats and Republicans was explosive. Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television hosts who...

Bernie Mac said some things that didn’t jive with Obama’s crowd and got a negative reaction for it. Bernie Mac’s show at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago didn’t fly so well on Friday night as he appeared for a fund-raiser for Barack Obama. In one of his jokes he said, “My little nephew came to me and he said, ‘Uncle, what’s the different between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?’ I said, ‘I don’t know,’ but I said, ‘Go upstairs and ask your mother if she’d make love to the mailman for $50,000,’” reported the Associated Press. This...

It’s one of the iron rules of politics – you have more to fear from your friends than from you enemies. Senator Barack Obama’s supporter, Jesse Jackson, seemingly threatened him bodily harm this week. Senator John McCain’s pal and economic adviser, Phil Gramm, went all “mental” on him a day later. Then, last night in Chicago, a longtime friend and supporter of Mr. Obama, the comedian Bernie Mac, “entertained” an Obama fundraiser crowd with a humor routine touching on menopause, prostitution and black family relations. By the time he was wrapping up his remarks, some in the crowd had turned...

Amongst similar anecdotes: Franken Pretends To Kill New Born Daughter At Baby Shower. "AL FRANKEN: My wife came with her sister first and I was going to bring the baby. My other sister-in-law came with me. So I got a doll the exact size of the baby and swaddled it - I told Franny I was going to do this - and there's like thirty women, and I walk in and they're all going like, 'Ohhh . . . ahhhh,' and I was walking in and I hit the baby's head on this piece of furniture and I go up...

Hey Everyone King Vanity thought yall should have a heads up to a fantastic side splitting comedy documentary that is on right now on Showtime. An Inconveinant Truth by Al Gore.

A Canadian stand-up comedian will face a human rights tribunal hearing after a woman complained she and her friends faced a "tirade of homophobic and sexist comments" while attending one of his shows. In a decision released this week, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled there is enough evidence to hear the case of Vancouver woman Lorna Pardy against Toronto comedian Guy Earle. Zesty's Restaurant in Vancouver, where the May 22, 2007, show took place, was also named in the complaint. The restaurant has since closed.

David Letterman's top 10 on why the Air Force is great

<p>The last vote that George Carlin said he cast in a presidential race was for George McGovern in 1972.</p> <p>When Richard Nixon, who Carlin described as a member of a sub-species of humanity, overwhelmingly defeated McGovern, the comedian gave up on the political process.</p>

Just saw an AP article about it at Yahoo.

George Carlin reported dead from heart failure.

Senator John McCain pointed out to Senator Barack Obama that terrorism was a global problem, noting that 3 Brazilian soldiers had been killed by terrorists in the previous week. "That's terrible," a startled Barack Obama stammered in reply. "How many is a Brazilian?" John McCain's military record has Barack Obama's supporters in Hollywood worried, so they've decided to make a movie about Obama's military experience. The working title is "Full Dinner Jacket." Mike Huckabee's bumpersticker: Honk If You Love Jesus Barack Obama's bumpersticker: Honk If You Think I Am Jesus John McCain's bumpersticker: Honk If You Want Amnesty for Jesus...

Like Davey Crocket and company at the Alamo, there are a number of steadfast conservatives who are holding out against John McCain, even in the face of what amounts to unvarnished socialism in the person of Barack Obama. Most of these individuals are committed, principled, conservatives, which means their allegiance to the Republican Party depends on the frequency and degree with which the Republican Party faithfully, fully, resolutely and competently fosters conservative ideals of governance. Quite simply, John McCain isn’t their man. Far more the maverick, compromising, bipartisan, sometimes-conservative, McCain has repeatedly raised the ire of conservatives not for his...

My 2008 election parody with my comedy acting students -

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Vice President Dick Cheney apologized on Monday through a spokesman after furor erupted from his joke implying inbreeding was practiced in the West Virginia. Cheney had been asked during the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Awards at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. about reports that he was distantly related to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). "Well, that's true. We are, in fact, distantly related," Cheney said, according to a White House transcript. "And we haven't talked about a family reunion; I have no objections. I'm not sure Senator Obama is up for it, at least not...

As the 2008 general election campaign gets underway, way too many Americans once again will gain the bulk of their political news not from newspapers, news anchors or even the Internet – but rather from late-night comics. A new book analyzes this phenomenon and the nexus of politics and television comedy in general, and raises some fascinating questions about where one ends and the other begins. Strange Bedfellows was written by University of Iowa professor Russell L. Peterson. Subtitled How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy Into a Joke, it was published earlier this spring by the Princeton University Press. In...

LOS ANGELES — Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and was seen to hilarious effect on the big screen in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81. Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family said. He had undergone several major operations. "He was a brilliant comedian and a brilliant father," daughter Kate Korman said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He had a very good sense of humor in...

Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and was seen to hilarious effect on the big screen in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81. Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family said. He had undergone several major operations. "He was a brilliant comedian and a brilliant father," daughter Kate Korman said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He had a very good sense of humor in real life. "...

Just heard Brian Williams announce on NBC Nightly News that Harvey Korman passed away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2dfD0ryMco

I see that someone posted the Townhall.com article on McCain's straight-man act on Saturday Night Live here, but this is an actual link to those videos on Primetime Politics.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=252575

For his part, McCain joked that he had picked his running mate. With fanfare he pulled out a piece of paper upon which the name of Dwight Schrute, the power-hungry but bumbling character from the NBC sitcom "The Office," was written. Stewart’s audience seemed to approve. "That is pandering," Stewart joked when McCain received applause. McCain’s press secretary Brooke Buchanan explained that McCain is a fan of "The Office" and was trying to make a joke. Stewart countered with his own contender for the job of McCain’s number two. "Sen. Hillary Clinton," Stewart said with a level of seriousness. "If...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELTA, Iraq, May 7, 2008 – Actors from the popular Iraqi sitcom “Mud House” performed the first comedic play since 2003 in Iraq’s Wasit province on May 4. The play “People and People” is performed in front of a packed house at the Kut Municipality Hall, in Kut, Iraq, May 4, 2008. Courtesy photo by James O’Gara  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “People and People” portrayed Iraqi life from a comedic perspective to entertain the audience and to give them hope and optimism for the future, said the actors, Anam al-Rubayai, Ali Dakhil and Majid...

Three video clips of Craig Ferguson at the 2008 Correspondents Dinner.

Bush tweaks candidates at correspondents' dinner Apr 26 10:24 PM US/Eastern By CHRISTINE SIMMONS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush poked fun at his potential successors Saturday night, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner. "Senator McCain's not here," Bush said of GOP nominee-in-waiting John McCain. "He probably wanted to distance himself from me a little bit. You know, he's not alone. Jenna's moving out too." Bush then referred to scandals that have dogged the campaigns of the two remaining Democratic candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Saturday Night Live" veteran Jimmy Fallon has sealed a deal to succeed "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien on NBC in 2009, sources said. O'Brien, whose show airs at 12:35 a.m., is moving to Los Angeles next year to replace Jay Leno at "The Tonight Show," which airs an hour earlier. NBC is expected to make the announcement on May 12 during its "upfront" presentation to advertisers in New York. The network declined comment on Thursday. Fallon, 33, co-starred on "SNL" for six seasons, and co-hosted its "Weekend Update" segment. He left the show to focus...

<p>Comedian Bill Maher stopped short of apologizing Friday night for accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, but he said he'd refrain in the future from drawing that connection.</p> <p>"I will never make 'the pope is a Nazi' joke again," Maher said on his HBO show, "Real Time With Bill Maher."</p>

Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi' By Melanie Hunter-Omar CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 17, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Liberal talk show host Bill Maher, whose controversial comments about the pope drew fire from the Catholic community, is planning to apologize Friday night for falsely accusing Pope Benedict XVI of being a Nazi, the Catholic League announced Thursday. Catholic League President Bill Donohue received a phone call Thursday from an HBO executive regarding comments Maher made last Friday on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Donohue said Maher "lied when he said the Pope...

By tradition, the guest of honor pokes a little fun at himself before the audience of media members and guests. The vice president worked in a reference to Democrat Barack Obama's controversial comments about "bitter" voters and his own hunting mishap. He thanked the attendees for the kind welcome, saying, "You're not the kind to look down on a bitter man who clings to his guns."

Funny clip of Conan figuring out why the Clinton's donated so much to..."Charity"

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2008 – It was all a big joke for servicemembers and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Fisher House yesterday when comedian Kathy Griffin came to visit. Comedian Kathy Griffin, star of “My Life on the D List,” greets Susan Badia at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Fisher House III on April 3, 2008. Badia, her daughter, Kylee Ray, and her husband, Army Sgt. Jace Badia, currently are living next door at Fisher House II. Sergeant Badia is recuperating from wounds he suffered in Iraq when he was hit by a homemade bomb. Griffin...

Tonight was our sixth show! We plan on having them every three months, and if it works out, move that up to every other month. ALSO NOTE, IF SOMEONE HAS CONNECTIONS AT BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL, WE WOULD LIKE TO DO SHOWS THERE ON THE ALTERNATE MONTH. We had a good size crowd this night, including a FReeper. Our band never showed, but we went on without them. Not sure what happened to "Destroy All Zeros", a touring rock band. I guess they were tied up destroying some free roaming zeros. They missed one as their appearance at WRAMC turned up...