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Posts Tagged ‘jokes
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Feb
17
Chat Away
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Dec
16
Early Bird Chat
Pete Souza: Sometimes you gotta have fun. For the past three weeks, there have been four snowmen on display in the Rose Garden (see photo in earlier post). We’ve been joking that we should move the snowmen a few feet closer to the Oval Office every day to see if anyone noticed. Then we realized the snowmen were too heavy to easily lift. But finally this morning before the President came to the office, some helpful staff–I won’t say who–moved all the snowmen so each one was peeking through a different window into the Oval. This photo was taken this afternoon as the President signed end-of-the-year bills.
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Pete Souza: Another snowman from yesterday. Yes he enjoyed the prank. See previous post for the backstory
03
Dec
16
Turkey Jokes
Biden: Cruz "an inspiration to every kid in America who worries that he’ll never be able to run for president because nobody likes him"
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 06, 2016Meanwhile, Biden at Gridiron:
"I said, 'Barack, I think you should resign.'
He said, 'To join the Supreme Court?'
I said, 'Sure, whatever.'"
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 06, 2016****
Biden on Trump: "Can't you picture his reaction watching Hillary take the oath of office? It’s going to be worth the price of admission."
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 06, 2016More Biden: "Donald has attacked every person of color – except John Boehner."
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Biden on why Trump is still winning: "Well, it’s simple. As my father used say, 'When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.'"
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 06, 2016More Biden on Cruz: "I told Barack, if you really, really want 2 remake the SupCt, nominate Cruz. Before u know it, u'll have 8 vacancies."
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 06, 2016
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First Lady Michelle Obama chats with SNL’s Cecily Strong
03
Jul
11
“so yesterday”
Washington Post: A President Obama impersonator brought down the house Saturday at the Republican Leadership Conference, telling a string of racially themed jokes about the president.
The impersonator, Reggie Brown, took the stage at the annual presidential cattle call to the Bruce Springsteen song “Born in the USA” – an allusion to the birther controversy.
A sampling of what followed:
• On Black History Month: “Michelle celebrates the full month. I celebrate half.”
• “My mother loved a black man,” but “she was not a Kardashian.”
• A picture was shown of Obama and the first lady when he took office. The impersonator then showed a picture of what the Obamas will look like when the president leaves office, and it was the characters of Fred Sanford and his sister-in-law, Ethel, from the show “Sanford and Son.”
• Of Tim Pawlenty’s decision not to criticize Mitt Romney at Monday’s debate: “[CNN’s] John King served him up a ball softer than Barney Frank’s backside.” (Frank is a gay member of Congress from Massachusetts.)
….Eventually, Brown was ushered offstage by the man who introduced him. Conference organizers did not immediately respond to questions about why Brown was ushered offstage or whether his jokes were approved in advance.
Full post here
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Thanks to Lisa for this – from GOPolitico: “Brown didn’t just limit his jokes to Obama, though. He also mocked Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith, ridiculed Newt Gingrich’s faltering campaign and suggested Tim Pawlenty needed a spinal transplant.
As Brown was preparing to make a Michele Bachmann joke, one of the conference’s officials came out to the lectern and told the comedian to leave the stage.”
So they were okay with the racist, homophobic stuff, they drew the line at him making jokes about Bachmann?
Oh boy.
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Our very own GGail contacted Reggie Brown’s agent (info@williamgold.com) – this is the reply she got:
“We’ve done the same speech in Harlem for a black advocacy group that we support and they laughed. It’s called comedy and I’m sorry that you don’t understand. The press is spinning this out of control and we would appreciate support from the public rather than falling into a media trap. Reggie is being used by the media both on the right and the left so that they can score political points at his expense. Our show was nothing more than political comedy that goofed on both sides; it wad no worse than what President Obama did at his own White House Correspondence Dinner.
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