{"id":13693,"date":"2011-05-01T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/05\/01\/13693.html"},"modified":"2011-05-01T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:29:40","slug":"obama-still-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/05\/01\/obama-still-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama still funny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just watched the video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n9mzJhvC-8E\">President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner<\/a>. Much of the first six and a half minutes is laugh-out-loud funny, at least if you've been following the whole birth-certificate saga. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn't as thrilled with the next few minutes (not bad, just not as funny imo), but then there's a couple of minutes of reasonably entertaining jabs at Donald Trump (who doesn't seem amused), and there's a fun fake movie trailer starting at about 12:00.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the first couple of minutes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7YGITlxfT6s\">Seth Meyers routine<\/a>, but it didn't do much for me. But I did like this bit from around 15:15 (I skipped ahead to it because it was quoted in an article), with Meyers talking to Obama:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When you were sworn in, you looked like the guy from the Old Spice commercials. Now you look like Louis Gossett, Sr. [...] Is this the &lsquo;Change&rsquo; you were talking about? [...] If your hair gets any whiter, the Tea Party is going to endorse it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched the video of President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. Much of the first six and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,55,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-net-video","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}