(Letterman) Top Ten White House Excuses (for New Tork flyover)

Dave Letterman Late Show ^ | 29/4/2009 | some writers

[Oztrich Boy]

10. Do you want an excuse for scaring thousands of people or for wasting tax dollars on a brochure

9. Air Force One also acts as 1010 Wins "Traffic Eye In The Sky"

8. Huh?

7. Biden had to get to New York for the "Wolverine" premiere

6. If we don't photograph the President's plane over the Statue of Liberty, who will know what the President's plane looks like over the Statue of Liberty?

5. It's Bush's fault

4. You've been Howie'd!

3. Maybe the Statue of Liberty was too close to us

2. C'mon, let's just be cool about it... everybody stay cool... we're cool, right?

1. Swine Flu made us crazy

[Oztrich Boy]

No longer impossible for TV comics to make fun of the Obama Adimistration? Guess the 100 perfect days are over.

[library user]

I did not interpret the list as you did. #2 is apologist towards Obama.

[frankenMonkey]

When the gapped-toothed weatherman starts doing “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches” making fun of the messiah and Totus, I’ll tune in.

[hosepipe]

Letterman is even less funny than his comedy writers...
Letterman has jumped the lemming..

[1rudeboy]

Half of these aren’t even remotely funny.

[Roscoe Karns]

[rsobin]

Homey, check out my ride.

[laweeks]

It still is relatively “impossible” to make fun of this goofus. Most of Leno’s “stupid” jokes always drag Bush into them when he mentions the Most Almighty’s stupid ass stunts.

[Oztrich Boy]

I’d pay 10,9,6,5,3,2. It’s a C

[thoolou]

You got that right. Up to this point, the late night shows had pretty much said “He is above ridicule. There's nothing to make fun of...”

I think this is an important event, even if it IS Loserman.

[shadeaud]

So this ‘’hang on for dear life late night entertainer’’ is afraid to say anything that may construed in any way that he is picking on the black man who happens to be president, this jerk decides to just let his rating go in the toilet(where all his cronies should be). If the king of fishes were to be a cracker I would betcha that he would make some decent jokes as he did with the bent one and monika

[SIDENET]

Wow, those are sucky even by Letterman’s lame standards.

[Oztrich Boy]

I did not interpret the list as you did. #2 is apologist towards Obama.

When you start putting Obama is way cool in the excuses column instead of the reasons to adore column, it's not apologist but irony.

[1rudeboy]

C minus at best. And the writers need to be made to understand that it’s not enough to graduate. This event should’ve been comedy gold.

[buccaneer81]

10. George Soros wanted to see his plunder up close.

9. Let's pull a Sully; Americans love him.

8. Just practicing for carbon offsetting.

7. My dog Bo needed airsickness training.

6. Rahm said this would impress Iran.

5. I was sending the plane to pick up Auntie in Boston, but said, fugeddabout it.

4. New Yorkers need a mid-morning exercise period.

3. Scouring New York for cabinet picks.

2. Tea Party surveillance drill.

1. We won.

[TheConservativeParty]

Professional writers thought up those lame lines? We could all do better. Dave is now a bitter old lefty. Hasn’t been funny for 10 years at least. Only funny guy on late night is on too late, Craig Furgeson. He’s fairly even handed with the jokes. He’s naturally funny. On at 11:30 here. I just catch the monologue sometimes, it’s always funny.

[TheConservativeParty]

You nailed it with the “we won” excuse.
That seems to be the approach with all the harmful things he does, “I won” therefore, I’ll do as I please.

[Question_Assumptions]

#5 should have been #1 but it probably hit too close to the truth for him.

[buccaneer81]

“I won” therefore, I’ll do as I please.

He does come across as a foreign conqueror would.

Oh, wait...

[Bigg Red]

Most of Leno’s “stupid” jokes always drag Bush into them ...

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Exactly. What kills me is that Leno loves to portray Bush as stupid, when he himself is not very bright. One night, when I was foolish enough to watch Leno’s monologue he had a couple of Bush-is-dumb jokes, one of which used the word “platonic”. Leno pronounced the word as “plutonic”, not once but twice. I despise him and Letterman.