From This Week: Roundup of Sunday Funnies

Funnies: Of Socialists, Seders and Budget Cuts
(Looks like it was the Republicans fussing a lot this week...)

The Colbert Report

Colbert: I'm no fan of President Obama. He is a socialist. If I wanted to share my wealth with my friends… I'd have friends.


Saturday Night Live

Seth Meyers: President Obama on Thursday night hosted what may be the first Passover Seder in the White House. And, in a sign of the president's popularity, Elijah showed up.


The Colbert Report

Clips From Cable News:

Lou Dobbs, CNN: Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced sweeping cuts to Pentagon spending.

Sean Hannity, FOX News: Drastic cuts in the military budget.

Tamron Hall, MSNBC: Deep budget cuts.

Brian Williams, NBC: A deep slice into major U.S. weapons programs.

Colbert: [Graphic] That's right, Gates is chopping our defense budget to $513 all the way down to $534 billion.


The Tonight Show

Jay Leno: And China has proposed replacing the U.S. dollar with a global currency... the Wal-Mart gift certificate.


The Daily Show

Jon Stewart: Iowa says banning gay marriage is unconstitutional. Iowa – when this was last year's Iowa gay pride parade! [Shows lone man riding down the street on a tractor and people waving from a farm]

Roundup of Late Night Shows' Funnies

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Obama's New Slogan

The Tonight Show

Leno: President Obama's so upset that he changed his slogan from "Yes we can" to "Oh, no you don't."


The Late Show

Letterman: They're giving bonuses to executives, the same people who wrecked the company. They're getting bonuses for doing a horrible job. Well, hell, I ought to get one of those.

Real Time

Maher: Wall Street says the 90 percent tax has finally broken them up, they get it, they realize that what they have to do in the future is give out much bigger bonuses.

The Daily Show

[Obama on camera, coughing and very calm]: "Excuse me, I'm choking with ang…er anger here." Stewart [puzzled]: That is you when you are mad?

Jimmy Kimmel

Kimmel: What I really admire about Obama is he doesn't just guess who he thinks will win, but he does something about it. [Video of player on court with announcer]: It looks like the game might be over for Butler Johnson here, with a nice shooting stroke counting on both of the free throws going in-- [Obama figure comes onto court , blocks and waves finger] -- out of nowhere, Barack Obama blocks a shot!