Sometimes, when you're being grilled by the show's host, it's just better to pretend you didn't hear the question. Of course, when the question is a hardball like "What do you think of the future of young people," this tactic may be overkill, so it's pretty clear during this broadcast of the Italian talk show Questa Domenica, that Senator-for-Life Giulio Andreotti really didn't hear the question.

236.com takes some time out of the busy holiday season to help President-elect Barack Obama search for a new puppy. And they dole out some fascinating doggy facts along the way. Did you know John Adams had two dogs named Juno and Satan? Yeah, neither did we...

The nation is in a tizzy over shirtless photos of Barack Obama on vacation in Hawaii. But as the Huffington Post reminds us in the nifty slide show below, Barack isn't the first bare chested president (or soon to be president) caught on film. To all the ladies out there... Merry Christmas!

Click image to launch slide show.

It's been a rough year for Jews. First Joe Lieberman, then Bernie Madoff. Luckily, there is a new One on the horizon, and his name isn't Barack. Thank Abraham for Rahm Emanuel, aka, 'The Hope.'

As the days count down, George Bush, or at least Will Ferrell's version of him, wants you to know that "starting January 20, the Big Dawg will be off the leash."

When George Bush finds out there is no Santa.

Santa needs $25 billion from the federal government or, this year, "Christmas as we know it" won't happen. Will he try for union concessions as a condition for help? "Breaking the elf union is like eating a glass sandwich," says Santa.

The president is about to have a very busy day combating an unexpected monster attack in New York City. Luckily for him, it will all be wrapped up by dinner time...


President To Face Down Monster Attack, Own Demons In Action-Packed Schedule

We've posted all the best throw-the-shoe-at-the-President videos, but this is the web and it's time to get interactive. So, from the folks of the Atom web comedy site. here's your chance to help George Bush duck the shoes. Use the right and left arrow keys to move the President. To play the game, click here:

And when you're done dodging shoes, this game is a bit harder. This time you're the Iraqi journalist and you have to hit a deviously agile President Bush. Click here to play.

Looking for that perfect shoe to throw at your next international press conference? Come down to Zainab's Shoes, open seven days a week, until curfew.

Yesterday we posted some of our favorite parodies of the shoe throw seen 'round the world. Another day, another slew of creative shoe-icide mash-ups. In no particular order, here are some of our favorites from the last 24 hours...

Bush Vs. Everything That Has Ever Been Thrown In The Entire Universe

More videos after the jump...

It was the shoe throw seen 'round the world. And just as adeptly as President Bush ducked the projectile ped-wear, YouTube users world wide uploaded parodies of the incident. Some of the best involved an eerily similar scene from Austin Powers (parody embedded below), but there were plenty of hilarious send-ups. We've compiled our favorites after the jump.

Third party candidate supporters may not have had much to cheer about lately (okay, ever), but at least there's one thing they do have: each other. Politico's James Kotecki takes us inside the saddest place on Earth, the Support Group for People Who Really Believed That Their Presidential Candidate was Going to Win the Election.

Rod Blagojevich is almost certainly on a path to catch up with fellow governor Sarah Palin in video parodies. As Rod says here, his prices for a seat or cabinet position, "are almost criminal." From Funny or Die.

So, if he runs for Senate in Pennsylvania, this clip from 236.com may help you picture his first debate with Arlen Specter.

In the midst of the worst financial crisis since WWII, two wars and an epic scandal still rippling through Illinois and national politics, one American trait remains remarkably resilient: the ability to capitalize off of the mishaps and missteps of public figures and celebrities. With impressively quick speed, TabloidTShirts.com is already out with a whole line of t-shirts celebrating the travails of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Take your pick of 'Crook County' buttons or 'Govs Gone Wild' coffee mugs. Only a million (bleep)ing dollars each.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on Monday by federal agents who charged him with a whole laundry list of corruption and abuse of power violations, including trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat. According to Stephen Colbert, all U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald had to do to pin down Blagojevich was be his Facebook friend.

Yesterday we posted a scene from 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' where Gov. Hubert "Happy" Hopper gets pressured from his own children to pick an unknown boyscout leader as the replacement for a recently deceased U.S. Senator.

In light of recent news that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been arrested at his home in Chicago on federal corruption charges for trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's senate seat, we thought we'd go to the 'Mr Smith' well one more time.

In this scene, it's not the governor who is leading the corrupt backroom dealings, but rather political kingmaker James Taylor telling Gov. "Happy" how the senate appointment will shake down.

The governors of Illinois and New York have been getting a lot of attention lately amid rampant speculation about who they will choose to appoint to Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's respective senate seats.

In Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gov. Hubert "Happy" Hopper faced a similar dilemma when one of his state's senators unexpectedly died. "Happy" is being pressured by both political kingmaker James Taylor and the party elite to pick different men. But it turns out it's his own children who really lay it on thick.

We imagine a scene similar to the clip below playing out in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's and New York Gov. David Paterson's dining rooms.

With the election over, Saturday Night Live is working hard to upend the natural order by not fading quietly into another 4 years of television irrelevance. This weekend's show featured political humor as usual, with a send up of Sec. of State-elect Hillary Clinton and this super cool announcement from Mr. Smooth, Barack Obama.

For those slackers among you when it comes to keeping up with events, SlateV has weighed in with another "all you need to know" in two minutes. (Well, two minutes 21 seconds). This one: a quick journey through the transition, so far.

The recently-ended U.S. presidential election has been called one of the ugliest in modern history. But it's got nothing on the ongoing Romanian election. At the next debate the candidates might want to consider wearing wet suits...

Watch the faces evolve from George Washington to Barack Obama...

George Bush has less than two months left in the White House, and he's making his round of exit interviews with many of the national networks. File this analysis of his interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson under, 'what in the world is Jon Stewart going to do when Bush leaves office?'

Hollywood fights back against the passage of California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative banning gay marriage in the best way it knows how: a musical. Jack Black stars as Jesus this Funny or Die exclusive video. Neil Patrick Harris, Margaret Cho and John C. Reilly also star. The one celebrity they left out: The Governator.

UPDATE AFTER THE JUMP: The Daily Show weighs in.

With the economy in a protracted recession, two overseas wars, a world in chaos and turmoil and their conservative president about to pack up and head out of the White House, it's no wonder that Fox News's new promo has a doomsday feel. MSNBC's new promo, on the other hand is a tad more optimistic. See the two of them side by side, thanks to 23/6.

Whatever his personal beliefs, the late comedian Bob Hope, who died in 1993, made jokes about everyone, from Democrats ("The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the presidency,") to Republicans ("Quayle thinks Roe vs. Wade are two ways to cross the Potomac,") to politicians in general, (It's so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.") But the punching bag in this short clip is the ...

During a Department of Agriculture press conference announcing an internal referendum on countercyclical potato pricing, a mid-level USDA official takes a courageous stand against what he calls neo-agrarian policies. The Onion News Network captured this emotional moment.


USDA Official Takes Courageous Stand Against Interstate Countercyclical Potato Pricing