A man wakes up from a coma after seven years in the hospital. His health care bill is $100. Iraq loves America and even has a major league baseball team. It is another time, another place. Next stop, Obamatopia.
Today's Daily Beast raises the overlooked transition question: does Saturday Night Live need to swap out its Barack Obama impersonator Fred Armisen for someone stronger now that it has to do Obama for at least four years more. (SNL says no).
The Beast says one contender could have been Jordan Carlos from the Colbert Report whose Obama has some different takes on "change." ("A lot of people want change. A lot of people have meters that have expired. I will give them that change.") This video comes from the site Funny or Die.
Disclaimer: There's a brief flash of nudity in the first minute, so take that into account when viewing.
With the margin separating Al Franken and Norm Coleman in the Minnesota senate race not representing enough voters to fill a movie theater, our friends at 23/6.com decided that if the contest was just declared a tie, it could provide good material for a sitcom called "My Two Senators."
Even the assembly line robots at the nation's auto-making plants are singing the blues over the industry's woes in the Daily Show's report on its push for a $25 billion in government aid.
Joe Biden has a message for the nation, at least a Saturday Night Live version, promising to make good on his reputation for gaffes. And this Biden clearly still feels he's in a contest with Sarah Palin. "You don't think I can give a train wreck interview to Katie Couric? Just name the time and the place!"
A few weeks ago, we brought you Ben Affleck's Saturday Night Live take on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, and now here's Olbermann ranting in person.
Yes, Barney, President's Bush's Scottish terrier, is in his Lame Dog days, and SlateV, lends him a bit of a brogue so he can do his video farewell.
Not exactly a paean to our 43d President, but this guy does a good George Bush. From the Atom Web Comedy site.
Somehow, we thought this famous scene from the 1977 movie Network was just right for the mood of these current hard times. And we tried to imagine Wolf Blitzer, instead of the crazed anchor Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch), showing up late for CNN's "Situation Room," his trench coat dripping after walking the streets aimlessly in a downpour, and then haranguing the Best Political Team on television with Beale's call to action. (We couldn't).
You've heard of issues referred to as the "third rail of politics." Spencer Tracy, playing the Republican nominee for President, Grant Matthews, steps on about a dozen of them as he tells his would-be campaign manager, in the 1948 film State of the Union, a few things he's about to speak his mind about. Played by the dapper Adolphe Menjou, the campaign manager heads for the door and when Tracy asks where he's going, answers, "I'm going to get pie-eyed."
Here's one of SlateV's signature "we'll wrap up the last week" for you in a couple of minutes if you happened to sleep through it.
The Daily Show's Senior Black Correspondent, Larry Wilmore, has been elevated to Senior Executive Commander-in-Chief, on the show. And assessing the meaning of Barack Obama becoming President, he explains to us everything from the real reason Jesse Jackson was crying on Election Night to his new experience of Black Liberal Guilt.
If you're impatient for Inauguration Day, kill some time by watching the inauguration of President Matt Santos.
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
CNN got a lot of attention (and probably a lot of guffaws) when it rolled out its new tech toy and "beamed" a hologram of reporter Jessica Yellin into its election headquarters to report on the gathering crowds at Grant Park awaiting Barack Obama. But compare that to the backdrop the Daily Show had for its correspondent on the scene in the Windy City.
We are probably entering the zone of Politics Seriously, since Sarah Palin says she believes the media has to do some work on its credibility and, "whatever I can do there to help..." she's ready to pitch in.
The Daily Show wraps up the last days of the campaign.
C. Montgomery Burns, Homer Simpson's boss and owner of a nuclear power plant, is running for Governor of Springfield so he can decide what's safe and what's not. He and his braintrust decide to have a televised campaign dinner at Homer's house which goes quickly downhill when Bart starts off with a blasphemous turn at saying grace.
OK. We're all busy. You couldn't keep up with everything going on in the campaign the last few weeks. So, for all of you whose attention has wandered, here's Slate's "Power Recap" in just under 2 1/2 minutes.
Jon Stewart takes his own look at Barack Obama's Wednesday night infomercial. Expensive, yes, but it's like Obama is a contestant in a game show: "Barack Obama has $150 million to spend in five days. If he makes it, he wins the Presidency!" Stewart adds some helpful after-the-fact suggestion about some product placement opportunities Obama missed in the scenes in his home Oval Office. And he said "the only thing Barack Obama didn't do on television last night was fight Kimbo Slice," which given that we here are culturally deprived, needed to look that reference up. (There's Kimbo, to the right). Jon also notes that CNN gave John McCain free time on the Larry King show in "a blatant attempt to make Larry King look young."