Interesting stuff!
According to a new study that covered all political jokes between Jan. 1 and July 31 in late-night monologues by Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert……
Barack Obama isn’t as ‘funny’ as John McCain, George Bush or Hillary Clinton.
Bush was the most mocked, with 605 jokes.
Clinton had 562.
McCain got 549.
Obama trailed, with 382.
The study finds that only cable’s Comedy Central — whose primary comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert more closely follow the day’s headlines — has slightly more jokes about the Democratic presidential nominee.
On Comedy Central, Obama and McCain were close, with 207 and 201, respectively, while Clinton and Bush nearly tied at 179 and 177.
The network comedians broadcast only 169 jokes about Obama, compared with 428 about Bush. McCain scored 328 jokes. Hillary clocked in at 382 jokes.
The study did not explore why Obama got off so lightly on the network shows.
To us it seems pretty obvious.
For Obama there’s no ‘low hanging fruit’ to pick and poke fun of!
Bush’s idiocy and fumbles are easist to joke about.
Age related jokes are no brainers to craft around McCain.
And, Hillary…well, we think she can thank Bill Clinton for his womanizing ways. If we had a dollar for every Hillary on Bill’s roving eye joke we’ve heard we’d have a nice chunk of money!
What do y’all think?
P.S. How come Kimmel wasn’t part of the study???
[Images via WENN.]
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