Jokes

Media bias aside, Obama's trip an important test (USA Today)

24 Jul 2008

We reached the pinnacle of irony this past week, America. John McCain, who jokes that the national media are his political base, produced a YouTube spot satirizing the fawning coverage of Barack Obama on some cable and broadcast networks.

McCain’s age sharpens focus on slips (Financial Times)

24 Jul 2008

Jokes about John McCain’s age have become staple fare for US late-night chat show hosts. David Letterman quipped that the senator was old enough to remember when Iraq was known as Mesopotamia, while Conan O’Brien claimed his Secret Service codename was “Enlarged Prostate�.

MOVIE REVIEW: Little to believe in with new 'X-Files' movie (The Charlotte Observer)

24 Jul 2008

The makers of the new "X-Files" movie have done themselves a disservice in coming up with the elongated title, "The X-Files: I Want to Believe." Really, it just invites a whole bunch of bad jokes which, unfortunately, are justified. It's easy to imagine how they might go: I want to believe another "X-Files" movie is necessary, 10 years after the first one came out and six years after the ...