The dudes who created those great “Wassup!” Budweiser commercials are back and this time they’re selling Barack not beer. “Hey yo Dookie, pick up the phone.”
SNL says Barack Obama is so far ahead in the polls that he’s cancelled his half-hour infomercial scheduled for this week and is hosting a variety special instead.
The comedy writers did a good job for both candidates at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in NYC last night.
McCAIN
Sound Bite: “This morning I dimissed my entire team of senior advisors. All of their positions will now be held by a man named Joe the Plumber.”
Sound Bite: “Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats, I can’t shake the feeling that some people here are pulling for me . . . I’m delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.”
OBAMA Sound Bite: “I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.”
Sound Bite: “My middle name is actually Steve. Barack STEVE Obama.”
Jackie Broyles and Dunlap — the Red State Update boys — take a look at tonight’s debate and predict “a train wreck of astonishing magnitude.” Dunlap’s rant is a classic.
Sound Bite: [Dunlap] “Unless she or a member of her family gets impregnated onstage, the spin’s gonna be that she held her own.”
Sarah Silverman calls on young Jewish voters to travel to Florida and convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama. (Contains explicit language.)
Sound Bite: “If Barack Obama doesn’t become the next president of the United States, I’m going to blame the Jews.”
Chris Rock visited Larry King to promote his new HBO comedy special and had a few thoughts on the presidential campaign. The always cringe-inducing King noted that Rock must be “proud that at this stage in our history a black man is running for president . . .”
Chris Rock parses the boundaries of racial identity:
Sound Bite: “I’m proud Barack Obama is running for president . . . If it was Flavor Flav, would I be proud? No.”