Obama's Humor:

[Ichingcarpenter]

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A few examples of Obama's unflashy wit:

_ In an interview, he complained of the "shine police," aides who follow him around to pat him with TV makeup.

_ Speaking about Mother's Day, he praised his sharp-tongued chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who's "not used to saying the word 'day' after 'mother.'"

_ At a Nevada high school, he envied the principal's standing ovation: "Obviously not exam time yet."

_ In a photo session, he declined to wear a helmet thrust at him by the champion University of Alabama football team: "It'll mess up my do."

_ Praising high-speed rail, he noted its less-stringent-than-airport security: "You don't have to take off your shoes. Right? Check to see if you're wearing the socks with no holes in them?"

Miller, a veteran of standup and comedy writing, has some unsolicited advice for Obama: Do it more.

"I would let it out a little," Miller said. "He's keeping it under a bushel. You want to say, 'Buddy, turn the brights down a little and let some of that humor come out. ...' ".

"People think of humor as being frivolous. But it's not. It's just a different kind of wisdom."


Whole story here:


http://www.staplenews.com/home/2010/3/30/obama-humor-comedian-in-chief.html

[Sherman A1]

1. There of course is a fine line with any humor,

and to how it is perceived (you know that the Faux News crowd will just take it as being a smart A**), but humor tends to really break the ice and I agree there should be more.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

[zbdent]

4. He just doesn't have the subtlety and nuance of

"This guy's a world-class asshole." or "Go fuck yourself.", like the Republicans have ...

:sarcasm:

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I wish I could have taken the whole article because there are

more examples of his wit. But you can't do that.

[impik]

3. He is extremely witty and funny - That is if you're smart enough to get it, of course

[DCKit]

8. And, as we know, (R)s are humor, irony and sarcasm impaired.

They've poured all their resources into hypocrisy and have nothing left over.

[Flying Dream Blues]

13. Well put. And they were short on resources to begin with, so

it's easy to see how that turned out. :)

[Invictus27]

5. The funniest must've been all those campaign promises on healthcare

vs. the HCR, i can still hear insurance companies laughing all the way to the bank..

[Richardo]

6. Give it a fucking rest

Go piss on another thread.

[graywarrior]

10. Have a nice stay.

Too cowardly to post where you're from, I see.

[tallahasseedem]

11. Fail.

Hmmm...pizza!

[Cha]

15. You don't hear anything with those fingers in your ears.

[kestrel91316]

29. Go suck an egg. Makes a great appetizer before pizza, I hear.

[uponit7771]

30. wow

[polichick]

7. He is very funny and has great timing - loved his recent mocking of...

...the Henny Penny syndrome when he looked up searching for signs of Armageddon.

[Clio the Leo]

9. Gotta love that dry sarcasm.

And I SWEAR he borrows some of his delivery from Bob Newhart. I dont have time to explain that now but I he definitely reminds me of him.

[Cosmocat]

12. he is INCREDIBLY funny ...

he is an absolute cutup ...

He was fantastic during that roast during the election, his self depricating humor is just phenominal ...

Again, if he was an R, the media would be ALL over it ...

[Cha]

16. I can see that..dry

humor..self deprecating at times. :)

[dave29]

17. it's the straight face, occasional laugh to self, and pauses. I see it

too :)

[jberryhill]

22. Pause, then laugh to self....

When he delivers a line, he waits until the audience is finished laughing before he chuckles. I can never tell if he's laughing at the line, or laughing at the reaction to the line.

[Clio the Leo]

24. lol, yes that little laugh!

He'll tell a joke (straight face) then the audience will laugh and then HE will go "a-heh" almost laughing at them.

Too funny.

[PopSixSquish]

20. OMG Clio - Your are Absolutely Right!!

The way that Bob Newhart would pause before delivering the punchline and the audience would start laughing because they didn't know exactly what was coming, but that it was going to be hilarious!!

[Clio the Leo]

25. Yep and that stutter....

... now Bob's was a deliberate stutter, his trademark. I'm not sure that the President's is so much deliberate as it is ..... well, a demonstration of his love for words ... loves them SO much, he liked to say some twice. (Seriously, he does it when he's trying to choose his words carefully, lest they misconstrued.)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. The phrase you're all looking for is

Deadpan Snarker.

[Cha]

14. This is great..glad I didn't miss it. I always liked

Larry Miller.

"At a recent observance of International Women's Day, he saluted heroic women "from those on the Mayflower to the one I'm blessed to call my wife, who looked across the dinner table, and thought, 'I'm smarter than that guy.' " It brought down the house.

In Obama's comic telling, the first lady is the one who keeps him in line, or takes him down a peg when he needs it. He speaks of daughters Malia and Sasha and other women in his life as natural bosses."

[Cha]

18. People who think "humor is frivolous" don't

have any sense of humor.

Humor is what gets us by in tough times and like Larry Miller says.."It's a differnt kind of wisdom".

Humor is my favorite antidote.:)

[flpoljunkie]

19. Apparently, Obama also rates high on the scale of presidential humor evident here in this G-8 photo

In this July 8, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama, left, jokes with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, seated, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, before the start of G8 meetings in L'Aquila, Italy. How does Obama rate on the scale of modern presidential humor? Pretty high, it turns out. 'I think he does have a good sense of humor,' said Meena Bose, a presidential historian at Hofstra University. 'He has a cerebral one, though. It's this dry irony. You have to pay pretty close attention to get some of what he's saying.' (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

[lunatica]

21. Humor is sexy

Make me laugh out loud and I'm yours. I don't care if you look like Quasimoto.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. Obama patters.....

"...he complained of the "shine police," aides who follow him around to pat him with TV makeup"--

that cracks me up!!



but, if they offered me that job, I wouldn't turn it down........ :D

[Generic Brad]

27. Comedy advice from Dennis Miller?

Isn't that like getting parenting tips from Sarah Palin? Or budgeting tips from Michael Steele? Or beauty tips from Ann Coulter?

[tblue37]

28. LARRY miller. Much funnier guy. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. Reading Impaired?

Google impaired?

Larry=Dennis? Larry is bald. Nice try