Hillary Triumphs in Late Night Comedy Jokes Race Against McCain and Obama

If late night comedy jokes were any indicator of who would become our next president, Hillary Clinton would win hands down.

She was the target of 382 jokes to McCain’s 329.  Obama pulled up the rear at 169.

A decisive victory.

Between January 1st and July 31st, the Center for Media and Public Affairs monitored the monologues of Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Conan O’Brien for joke content.  The results are not surprising.

Here are some examples of the jokes:

John McCain

McCain was asked how he’s going to conserve energy. He said by taking three naps a day. – Leno

McCain said Iraq and Afghanistan have a common border. No wonder they can’t find Osama bin Laden. We’ve been searching an imaginary border. - Letterman

The only way McCain could get less coverage is if he got a primetime show on NBC. – Leno

Barack Obama

Obama said he’ll visit Iraq and Afghanistan because he wants to see an area overrun by violent extremists. So it sounds like he already misses his old church. — Leno

“Barack Obama is campaigning very hard, going everywhere these days to get the vote out. Barack Obama’s staff recently announced that Barack is planning to hold a campaign event at a NASCAR race. Yeah. The event will be called ‘Meet your first black guy.’” –Conan O’Brien

Hillary Clinton

Brett Favre says he has reconsidered his decision to retire and he wants to get back in the game. Today Hillary Clinton said, “You can do that?” – Letterman

It’s not looking good for Hillary. Today even Yogi Berra said, “It’s over.” – Leno

I don’t have thick enough skin to be in politics.

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