SNL's opening sketch was a very funny send-up of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi (although they spelled it Gadhafi) explaining his rambling, 90-minute speech to the UN last week. The visuals are spot on, from Kadafi's crazy hat and goofy Libya pin, down to the pea green tile background. And his excuses sound entirely plausible - he claims he was jet lagged, the whole living-in-a-tent thing was disruptive and his computer crashed. "I considered taking it to an IT specialist," said Kadafi through his interpreter, "but without going into too many details there were things on the computer I didn't want anyone to see. It was not terrorist stuff. It was guys' stuff."

This is pretty amazing. A sped-up compilation of 130 photos of Pres. Obama and foreign dignitaries at a recent event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The president's smile is remarkably - some would say supernaturally - consistent. Good thing for Obama he has such nice teeth. See for yourself. (h/t Political Wire).

Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

If there's one thing the media loves more than a good political story, it's a good media story. Combine the two, and it's a match made in heaven for the navel-gazing chattering class. The press couldn't resist obsessing over whether Pres. Obama was risking overexposure by appearing on five network talk shows this past Sunday (especially when the public thinks he isn't). So who better to point out the irony of a press complaining about too much access to the president than Jon Stewart, the king of making people drown in their own words.

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MoveOn.org, the liberal activist group that just yesterday turned 11 years old, has enlisted a few Hollywood actors to deliver a sarcastic attack on the health insurance industry. The faux PSA stars Will Ferrell, Mad Men's Jon Hamm and that guy from Scrubs (I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV!) giving tongue-in-cheek pleas to protect wealthy health insurance executives from health care reform. "Insurance companies are detail-oriented enough to deny claims for things like typos," snarks Ferrell. "If you spell something wrong, do you really deserve surgery?"

It's hard to see the ad having much of a reach beyond the base of people who already support health care reform. Funny as the ad is, MoveOn + Hollywood actors aren't exactly at the top of Republicans' influence list.

Former House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay made his Dancing with the Stars debut last night, and we have just one word: Yikes! I mean, just look at that outfit. Apparently the judges thought the same thing, putting DeLay in 4th place. Politico edited together some of the, uh, highlights.

It turns out an hour wasn't enough for Pres. Obama's appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman. While the sprawling interview touched on everything from the president's kids to health care to the war in Afghanistan (if you missed it, you can watch it here), one thing got left out: Letterman's Top 10 list. Luckily CBS put the list, titled 'Top 10 Reasons Pres. Obama Agreed to Appear on the Late Show,' online as a Web exclusive. Our favorite was number 5: "We told him Megan Fox would be here."

Not a good night for Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer on Celebrity Jeopardy. Comedian and late night host Andy Richter put a hurtin' on the longtime newsman.

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The recession (which we're told is now over) put a serious hurting on states throughout the country. California tottered on the edge of implosion. Michigan, Florida, Nevada and Arizona have been particularly hard hit. But only in the Grand Canyon state did some lawmakers come up with a really crazy idea: sell the state capitol and then rent it back over the course of 20 years. The Daily Show went to Phoenix to visit what is indeed a very unattractive 60s-era complex (NOTE: Before joining CQ Politics, your humble Politics (Un)Seriously blogger worked for an Arizona newspaper) to do some due diligence about what a prospective buyer might get for their money. The piece is funny in that uncomfortable kind of way, because you feel bad for the lawmakers who can't even answer a fake journalist's questions about what they're going to do next year when they have to start paying $60 million in rent.

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It looks like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's broken ankle has healed just fine. A new video from Washington Life TV shows the Court's newest member doing the mambo with actor Esai Morales at The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) annual gala in Washington DC. Sept. 15, 2009. Take that, Tom DeLay.

You've heard of 'Auto-tuning the News.' Now it's time to 'Slow-jam the News.' Jimmy Fallon, with his house band The Roots, had some fun with a jazzy, sexy little number to bump-n-legislate to. So turn the lights down low, grab yourself a glass of your favorite Shiraz, and immerse yourself in smooth lyrics like, "why not get a bill we can all live with, settle down with, raise some little amendments with."

You've seen Rep. Joe Wilson heckle President Obama during last week's speech to a joint session of Congress. And you've seen Kanye West interrupt Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the MTV Video Music Awards. Now watch Kanye West interrupt Obama in the latest, greatest YouTube Remix.

(UPDATE - Maybe this is why Pres. Obama called Kanye a "jackass.")

During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich jokingly agreed to sell the seat he was sitting on on Ebay. And then he went and ACTUALLY DID IT! According to the product description, Blagojevich isn't the only celebrity whose tush has graced the seat. Buy now, and get access to the backsides of Paris Hilton, Megan Fox, Tom Cruise, Robin Williams, Shaq and more.
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Well that didn't take long. Funny or Die jumped into the Joe Wilson fray with this spoof about the South Carolina congressman's new "reality" show. The premise of the show: Joe Wilson goes around calling ordinary people liars. Episode 1: Joe Wilson shows up when Dave proposes to Tammy...

Joe Wilson went from an obscure South Carolina congressman to one of Google's top search terms in the time it takes to call the President of the United States a liar. And now Wilson has something else in common with Obama - he's got his very own site of randomly-generated one-liners. Remember 'BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com"? Now there's "JoeWilsonIsYourPreexistingCondition.com." Click on the image below to open up the web site, and then hit refresh to cycle through such gems as "Joe Wilson let his dog poop on your lawn," and "Joe Wilson yells 'Free bird' at concerts."

Okay, so the sarcasm on this one is a bit thick, but Mother Jones's anti-health care ad spoof is entertaining nonetheless. The spoof addresses some of the more outrageous claims by health care overhaul opponents, ones mostly found false by a CQ Politics health care fact check on claims by both sides of the debate. But hyperbole is a dish best served warm, kind of like your still-beating heart to a blood-thirsty Nancy Pelosi (you just gotta watch the clip to figure that one out).

 Pres. Obama's surprisingly controversial speech to America's school children about the importance of education went off without a hitch earlier today. But the speech he gave, while arguably motivational to any would-be dropout, still didn't go far enough in truly speaking to the needs and concerns of today's youth. Instead, he should have taken a page out of Obama impersonator Jordan Peele's book, telling kids to just skip school altogether, and maybe sneak out to the woods to "smoke a j". Sounds like reasonable advice to us.

It turns out that Sen. Al Franken is good at more than just goofy comedy routines and waging the longest election battle in modern Senate history. He also can draw a map of the entire United States from memory. Here, he puts his talent on display at the Minnesota State Fair (h/t Political Wire).

Auto-Tune the News 8 is out, and it's the best one yet. Very catchy, especially the 'those geese are cooked' refrain. For the uninitiated, check some of the past episodes, here and here.

In February we brought you 'The Uncler,' a Funny or Die spoof of Darren Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler,' about a down-n-out Uncle Sam looking to reclaim his glory. Now the Uncler is back, traveling the country to talk to politicians, journalists and ordinary Americans about how he can get his mojo back. In this edition, Helen Thomas, the deaconess of the White House Press Corps, gives the Uncler some good advice: "Don't go kill people and die for something that you can't even explain." Just don't ask Ms. Thomas where the nearest bus stop is.

Are some conservative groups serious when they say former vice president Dick Cheney should run for president in 2012? Late night talk show hosts sure hope so. Last night was a good preview of the fun Conan, Jimmy Kimmel and Craig Ferguson would have during an Obama-Cheney matchup. Also in their crosshairs was Eliot Spitzer, who was rumored to be considering a run for U.S. Senate (he now says he's not). "Where does he get off?" asked a bemused Jimmy Kimmel. "Oh yeah, at the Mayflower Hotel in DC, room 871."

Politico has a good roundup of all of last night's late-night action.

Did you know that Dick Cheney hates it when you reveal the plot of "Gossip Girl" before he's had a chance to watch it? Also, don't call him Ricky. Apparently Condoleezza Rice called him Ricky once. Once.

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