Funnies: Biden Licks the Plates
A look at the best in late-night political comedy.
May 24, 2009 — -- Here's a roundup of the late-night comics.
David Letterman: [Former Vice President Dick Cheney's] speech went over pretty well. I mean, Cheney was interrupted five times by applause and 50 times by people screaming, "Stop! I'll tell you everything! What do you want to know?"
Jimmy Fallon: Michelle Obama's on the cover of Time magazine this week. She says she has dinner with a Barack and the kids every night, and then -- oh, it's so cute -- Joe Biden jumps up and tries to lick the plates.
David Letterman: The C.I.A. fired back, saying, "It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress." It's true. Sometimes they just get lucky.
Jon Stewart: [President Obama] opened with some familiar rhetoric.
President Obama: Keeping American people safe, it's the first thing I think about when I wake up.
Former President Bush: I wake up every day thinking about how I can best protect America.
Obama: You can't count on a surrender ceremony.
Bush: There will be no surrender ceremony.
Obama: To disrupt, dismantle, defeat al Qaeda.
Bush: To disrupt and destroy terrorists.
Stewart: I love it when he does all the Bush covers.
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