Leno- President Obama is everywhere, isn't he? Last week he was on our show, Sunday night he was on 60 Minutes, Tuesday night he held a prime-time press conference, and on Wednesday night he was on Lost trying to sell his economic plan to the people on the island. Vlad- There isn't as much support for Obama's economic plan as he thought he would have because of his popularity. Now he has to run around everywhere to push his plan. This is made fun of by saying that he even was at a popular fictional location, the island on the TV show Lost.
Karen: David Letterman's Top 10 Messages on Britney Spears' Answering Machine
10. This is the printing company. Your wedding announcements are ready. 9. Hey its Christina Aguilera, did you get married or did I? 8. It's the printing company. Your annulment announcements are ready. 7. Rush Limbaugh here. I'd love to try whatever you were taking the other night. 6. So other than the embarrassing marriage and annulment, how was Vegas? 5. Hey it's Paris. You don't need to get married to get attention. Just have sex on the internet. 4. This is Kenny from high school. I have a couple of hours free on Thursday if you want to get married and divorced? 3. Honey, it's Liza. Next time, instead of an annulment, hit him with a bottle. 2. It's Jessica Simpson. Thanks for making me look like a genius. 1. Pete Rose here. I bet 10,000 dollars on your marriage lasting a week.
Here, Letterman took Britney Spears' ugly situation of getting married and divorced in a matter of hours and used it not just to make fun of her, but also to make fun of other celebrities' problems. Spears apparently married a childhood friend in Vegas in January 2004. The marriage was annulled 55 hours later. The overall top ten is used to poke fun at her stupidity in doing this for publicity. In the process, Letterman's top ten also attacks Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson (other pop stars) for their lack of brilliance. The joke slams Paris Hilton's popularity for nothing and choices of making sex tapes that are posted on the internet. Top it off with the slam of Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction and Liza Minelli's alcoholism for a well rounded attempt at hitting on as many names as possible while still making fun of Britney Spears.
In addition to what was said for the Barack Obama joke: I think something is being said about the excess of exposure Obama may be receiving, in the mass-media, that is not considered to be directly political or dare I say professional? A good example of such an idea would be his appearance on none other than, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I wonder, without reading too much into the joke, whether or not the use of a show titled 'Lost' has anything to do with Vlad's argument that Obama's support is lacking? I think ultimately the joke is about the true nature of Obama's role in the public eye. Is he a politician or a deistic representation to be accepted and rejected, or can he be both?
LENO: The President and his wife meet with the queen. They gave her an Ipod as a gift. I guess she can use that while shes jogging. She likes it. It's so much easier to use than that giant boombox.
The President, an achieved celebrity, and his wife give the Queen, an ascribed celebrity, a gift than would be great for anyone under any other circumstances. The Queen has everything so why would she need an Ipod, which mocks the choice of the gift. To mock it further, Leno says she can use it when she's jogging, which is funny in itself because the Queen is old and proper so she would never jog and the boombox is commentary on her age which furthers the mockery of the gift choice.
Meyers - "Michelle Obama was photographed in London wearing clothes from J-Crew, the store is selling out of the clothes she's been wearing. Now if someone could just get her to drive a Chrysler."
Ian S. - Michelle Obama's celebrity(ascribed) has drove her into the public eye. The joke is suggesting that her fame and celebrity would convince her fans, with the use of her already high presents of publicity, to buy a Chrysler. People would mass consume, dragging Chrysler out of debt and possibly saving the company.
It also comments on how bad they are really doing. Massive debt. President Obama cuts their (Auto Industry) funds.
David Letterman: The Navy SEALs snipers shot the three pirates, not bang, bang, bang, they shot them at the same time, simutaneously, I mean that is sharp shooting ladies and gentlemen, boom all of them gone. Something like that hasn't happened since the last Dick Cheney hunting trip. The pirates were trying to negotiate a tough deal, they were trying to get adopted by Madonna.
The news has been everywhere about the Somali pirates and the rescuing of the captain of one of the ships who had been a hostage. Letterman plays off of the success of this mission while joking about another older piece of popular news, that Dick Cheney had shot a member of his hunting party over a year ago. This illustrates how widely spread and memorable these sensational news stories are. Then he goes on to comment about the poor conditions in Somalia by comparing the pirates to the children of Malawi where Madonna has previously adopted a child and was recently denied a second adoption.
Scott MacIntyre (American Idol Contestant), Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson (Former/Current Gov. of NY) mentioned: "Scott MacIntyre, a blind contestant, was recently voted off 'American Idol.' But he still has an inspirational story. He showed that in this country, even someone who can't see can grow up to finish eighth on 'American Idol,' and who knows, may even become governor of New York if the previous governor gets caught with a hooker." -Jimmy Kimmel Date of Joke: April 15, 2009 Evie P. This joke works on a few levels. For one, while Scott was on Idol he was perceived to have achieved his status of short-term celebrity - now that he has been eliminated, the joke comments on how he has lost his 15 minutes of fame - therefore relegating him to celetoid status. The joke also compares MacIntyre to David Paterson, Gov. of NY, in terms of celebrity texts that both include being blind. The joke also comments on a piece of older popular news dealing with political celetoid Eliot Spitzer. Overall the joke provides commentary on how hard it is in America to move up if you're on the bottom.
“Very exciting news, we have a Miss USA, she’s Miss ‘I don’t care’ from ‘who gives a damn’… No, actually her name is Kristin Dalton. She’s from North Carolina… she won the competition by successfully finding both the US and North Carolina on a map…She says she’s now looking forward to one day being the republican vice presidential candidate.” -Jay Leno on 4/20/09
This joke is funny because it a) incorporates the celebrity text of past pageant competitors like Miss Teen South Carolina in 2007 who was incoherent in her response to current affairs and b) alludes to Sarah Palin’s celebrity text as a pageant winner before becoming the republican vice presidential candidate in 2008… this joke also comments on her sometimes incoherent responses and overall suggests that pageant competitors are not smart.
"I mean are these people really celebrities? Sanjoya is taking this...is that his name? Sanjaya..Ok Sanjaya, excuse me for getting the name of a cultural icon wrong...Anyways, are they celebrities? Is Blagojevich a celebrity? Is Sanjaya a celebrity? They should change the name of the show to 'You’re a Celebrity? Get out of here!'" -Jay Leno, 04/22/09
In this joke Jay Leno is pointing out that some of the celebrities that were chosen for the show ‘I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’, such as Sanjaya (a former American Idol contestant) and Rod Blagojevich (indicted Illinois Governor) aren’t really celebrities, instead they are celetoids, because of the fact that they’re only famous on account of the excessive media attention that has surrounded them because of the public’s interest in them, and that after time, their celebrity status will begin to diminish as public interest also diminishes. Leno is also saying that the way in which Sanjaya’s fans react to merely his name being said makes him seem like he’s some super important cultural icon, when he’s really only an ex-American Idol contestant, further feeding into his celetoid status.
Jay Leno - "It's swine flu now. It's so big, it's knocked the torture stuff right off the front page. It's obvious who's spreading the swine flu...Dick Cheney. They're calling it swine flu because it's either originated from pigs or AIG executives."
Leno is critical of several issues and powerful figures in this joke. First off, Leno seems to be commenting on the fickleness of the media in that one day the focus is upon matters of political significance, referencing the water board torture methods employed by the CIA on Al Qaeda detainees under the Bush Administration, then quickly moves onto isolated incidents of swine flu in America that are hyped up to be a possible pandemic threat. Leno neatly ties these two subjects of media fascination by alluding to Cheney having involvement in swine flu's spread similar to his signing off on the CIA's use of water board torture. Indicting Cheney as the source of swine flu plays on Cheney's celebrity text of being a powerful and ruthless figure that operates secretly for his own ends with little regard for human life. Lastly, Leno speaks about the AIG bailout fiasco by comparing the AIG executives to swine which is obviously criticizing their greedy misappropriation of tax payers funds for themselves.
from tuesday may 5, 2009 David Letterman-"They're really digging for stuff on Obama. He gave a speech and accidently referred to Cinco de Quatro, the 4th of May instead on the 5th. he apologized saying he only knows about 15 words in Spanish. Big deal. George Bush only knew 15 words in English."
Adrienne-Letterman is commenting on a few celebrities and the media in general in this joke. Letterman starts by noting the media's unending search for dirt on Obama that reveals frivolous information. Like this Cinco do Quatro slip up. Letterman obviously sees Obama's need to apologize for this slip up as trivial, but Letterman takes Obama's admission of being unfamiliar with the Spanish language to attack former President Bush's poor public speaking skills and his inability to apologize for them.
Joke: Letterman: "The oldest woman in the world passed away yesterday. She was 130 years old. She's survived by her husband, Ashton Kutcher. So, I guess this moves Katie Couric to the top spot."
Analysis: In this one joke, Letterman targets three celebrities and one celetoid, of sorts. The oldest person in the world is a routine celetoid position that the media often uses for "weird/interesting" news tid bits. By saying that the oldest woman in the world's husband is Ashton Kutcher, he is taking a shot at Demi Moore, the 46-year-old actress married to Kutcher, who is 16 years her junior. He then takes a shot at Katie Couric, the talk show host/television journalist. Couric is 52. It is interesting that at 52, Couric is now at an age that Hollywood considers extremely old; old enough to be the brunt of a joke about being the oldest person in the world. Why not use Barbara Walters, who has a similiar job and is a full 27 years old? The difference is in the celebrity text: Couric, though only in her early fifties, has a celebrity image of being pretty, exuberant, and "fun" that no longer matches her age. However, she continues to present that same image. She is outgrowing her image, and this joke preys on her for it.
Joke: Jay Leno says "Last night I'm in the grocery store and I'm at the checkout and I look at the cover of people magazine and it says 'John and Kate a marriage in crisis.' And Kate says 'we might split up.' And I realize, who the hell are these people? Am I missing something? Who is that? Well, apparently they are from a TV show John and Kate Plus 8, about a married couple w/ eight kids, and according to People [magazine] the couple might split up because John is seeing someone else. Ironically, you know who he is seeing? The Octo-mom!
Analysis: Here Leno is commenting on three different celetoid texts. John and Kate are two people from a reality television show who are apparently having relationship problems. The major backdrop for their celetoid statuses is the fact that they have eight children. The social transgression of John cheating on his wife gives him notoriety, thus causing his appearance in the media to flare.
In an attempt to reach more of an audience Leno adds another celetoid to the mix, someone with a similar text. The Octo-mom also has eight children. It is interesting that Leno attaches the Octo-mom, who has a moral text that can be disputed, with John, who's new transgression can hardly be seen as appropriate considering his original text as a family man.
I also would note that Leno's position as a mediator and the fact that he is a celebrity gives him a unique influence on other celebrity texts. In this example Leno could be seen as a gatekeeper by enforcing the celetoid statuses he makes fun of. By making it seem like he does not know who is on the cover of a popular magazine he is letting his audience know that those people are not important. And that you should forget about them as soon as you laugh at the joke.
Joke: Jay Leno says, "Miss California is still claiming those topless photos were an accident, that a gust of wind blew her top off. You know something we may have found the greatest early tornado warning system in the country! You send this girl out into a field and as soon as her top blows off you hide in the basement."
Analysis: Well, Miss California has only gained celetoid status in the last couple of weeks and so far there are two items on her celetoid text: 1) that she had semi-nude pictures taken of her as a teenager; and 2) that she is openly against gay or "opposite" marriage. Leno picked the first one to open his monologue (perhaps because his show is more conservative). Whichever is the case Leno is making the point that Miss California is not fooling anyone and has little credibility.
David Letterman's Top Ten Surprises in the Sarah Palin Memoir 10. She's already completed her 2012 presidential concession speech 9. Her husband Todd is a person of interest in dozens of unsolved snowmobile hit and runs 8. State troopers have been instructed to taser Katie Couric on sight 7. Memoir is misspelled 6. Not only can she see Russia, earlier today she saw the astronauts working on Hubble. 5. The entire thing, plaziarized word for word from Artie Lange's "Too Fat to Fish". 4. Cover shows her in a passionate embrace with a shirtless Fabio. 3. Sworn in as Govenor with her left hand on a copy of Guns And Ammo magazine. 2. Claims she had a 3 way sex with Michael Phelps and a stripper. 1. She voted for Obama.
Analysis: David Letterman is using different pieces that make up Sarah Palin's celebrity text in order to poke fun at her. Everyone knows about her ambition, her commentary regarding Russia, her far right conservatism and general dislike for Obama. This allows the joke to be extended into other arenas in order to keep the joke alive while promoting her celetoid status in a backhanded manner by making her the butt of jokes she created herself.
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Leno- President Obama is everywhere, isn't he? Last week he was on our show, Sunday night he was on 60 Minutes, Tuesday night he held a prime-time press conference, and on Wednesday night he was on Lost trying to sell his economic plan to the people on the island.
Vlad- There isn't as much support for Obama's economic plan as he thought he would have because of his popularity. Now he has to run around everywhere to push his plan. This is made fun of by saying that he even was at a popular fictional location, the island on the TV show Lost.
Karen: David Letterman's Top 10 Messages on Britney Spears' Answering Machine
10. This is the printing company. Your wedding announcements are ready.
9. Hey its Christina Aguilera, did you get married or did I?
8. It's the printing company. Your annulment announcements are ready.
7. Rush Limbaugh here. I'd love to try whatever you were taking the other night.
6. So other than the embarrassing marriage and annulment, how was Vegas?
5. Hey it's Paris. You don't need to get married to get attention. Just have sex on the internet.
4. This is Kenny from high school. I have a couple of hours free on Thursday if you want to get married and divorced?
3. Honey, it's Liza. Next time, instead of an annulment, hit him with a bottle.
2. It's Jessica Simpson. Thanks for making me look like a genius.
1. Pete Rose here. I bet 10,000 dollars on your marriage lasting a week.
Here, Letterman took Britney Spears' ugly situation of getting married and divorced in a matter of hours and used it not just to make fun of her, but also to make fun of other celebrities' problems. Spears apparently married a childhood friend in Vegas in January 2004. The marriage was annulled 55 hours later. The overall top ten is used to poke fun at her stupidity in doing this for publicity. In the process, Letterman's top ten also attacks Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson (other pop stars) for their lack of brilliance. The joke slams Paris Hilton's popularity for nothing and choices of making sex tapes that are posted on the internet. Top it off with the slam of Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction and Liza Minelli's alcoholism for a well rounded attempt at hitting on as many names as possible while still making fun of Britney Spears.
In addition to what was said for the Barack Obama joke: I think something is being said about the excess of exposure Obama may be receiving, in the mass-media, that is not considered to be directly political or dare I say professional? A good example of such an idea would be his appearance on none other than, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I wonder, without reading too much into the joke, whether or not the use of a show titled 'Lost' has anything to do with Vlad's argument that Obama's support is lacking? I think ultimately the joke is about the true nature of Obama's role in the public eye. Is he a politician or a deistic representation to be accepted and rejected, or can he be both?
LENO: The President and his wife meet with the queen. They gave her an Ipod as a gift. I guess she can use that while shes jogging. She likes it. It's so much easier to use than that giant boombox.
The President, an achieved celebrity, and his wife give the Queen, an ascribed celebrity, a gift than would be great for anyone under any other circumstances. The Queen has everything so why would she need an Ipod, which mocks the choice of the gift. To mock it further, Leno
says she can use it when she's jogging, which is funny in itself because the Queen is old and proper so she would never jog and the boombox is commentary on her age which furthers the mockery of the gift choice.
Meyers - "Michelle Obama was photographed in London wearing clothes from J-Crew, the store is selling out of the clothes she's been wearing. Now if someone could just get her to drive a Chrysler."
Ian S. - Michelle Obama's celebrity(ascribed) has drove her into the public eye. The joke is suggesting that her fame and celebrity would convince her fans, with the use of her already high presents of publicity, to buy a Chrysler. People would mass consume, dragging Chrysler out of debt and possibly saving the company.
It also comments on how bad they are really doing. Massive debt. President Obama cuts their (Auto Industry) funds.
David Letterman: The Navy SEALs snipers shot the three pirates, not bang, bang, bang, they shot them at the same time, simutaneously, I mean that is sharp shooting ladies and gentlemen, boom all of them gone. Something like that hasn't happened since the last Dick Cheney hunting trip. The pirates were trying to negotiate a tough deal, they were trying to get adopted by Madonna.
The news has been everywhere about the Somali pirates and the rescuing of the captain of one of the ships who had been a hostage. Letterman plays off of the success of this mission while joking about another older piece of popular news, that Dick Cheney had shot a member of his hunting party over a year ago. This illustrates how widely spread and memorable these sensational news stories are. Then he goes on to comment about the poor conditions in Somalia by comparing the pirates to the children of Malawi where Madonna has previously adopted a child and was recently denied a second adoption.
Scott MacIntyre (American Idol Contestant), Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson (Former/Current Gov. of NY) mentioned:
"Scott MacIntyre, a blind contestant, was recently voted off 'American Idol.' But he still has an inspirational story. He showed that in this country, even someone who can't see can grow up to finish eighth on 'American Idol,' and who knows, may even become governor of New York if the previous governor gets caught with a hooker." -Jimmy Kimmel
Date of Joke: April 15, 2009
Evie P.
This joke works on a few levels. For one, while Scott was on Idol he was perceived to have achieved his status of short-term celebrity - now that he has been eliminated, the joke comments on how he has lost his 15 minutes of fame - therefore relegating him to celetoid status. The joke also compares MacIntyre to David Paterson, Gov. of NY, in terms of celebrity texts that both include being blind. The joke also comments on a piece of older popular news dealing with political celetoid Eliot Spitzer. Overall the joke provides commentary on how hard it is in America to move up if you're on the bottom.
Joke for 4/22/09
“Very exciting news, we have a Miss USA, she’s Miss ‘I don’t care’ from ‘who gives a damn’… No, actually her name is Kristin Dalton. She’s from North Carolina… she won the competition by successfully finding both the US and North Carolina on a map…She says she’s now looking forward to one day being the republican vice presidential candidate.”
-Jay Leno on 4/20/09
This joke is funny because it a) incorporates the celebrity text of past pageant competitors like Miss Teen South Carolina in 2007 who was incoherent in her response to current affairs and b) alludes to Sarah Palin’s celebrity text as a pageant winner before becoming the republican vice presidential candidate in 2008… this joke also comments on her sometimes incoherent responses and overall suggests that pageant competitors are not smart.
"I mean are these people really celebrities? Sanjoya is taking this...is that his name? Sanjaya..Ok Sanjaya, excuse me for getting the name of a cultural icon wrong...Anyways, are they celebrities? Is Blagojevich a celebrity? Is Sanjaya a celebrity? They should change the name of the show to 'You’re a Celebrity? Get out of here!'"
-Jay Leno, 04/22/09
In this joke Jay Leno is pointing out that some of the celebrities that were chosen for the show ‘I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here’, such as Sanjaya (a former American Idol contestant) and Rod Blagojevich (indicted Illinois Governor) aren’t really celebrities, instead they are celetoids, because of the fact that they’re only famous on account of the excessive media attention that has surrounded them because of the public’s interest in them, and that after time, their celebrity status will begin to diminish as public interest also diminishes. Leno is also saying that the way in which Sanjaya’s fans react to merely his name being said makes him seem like he’s some super important cultural icon, when he’s really only an ex-American Idol contestant, further feeding into his celetoid status.
Jay Leno - "It's swine flu now. It's so big, it's knocked the torture stuff right off the front page. It's obvious who's spreading the swine flu...Dick Cheney. They're calling it swine flu because it's either originated from pigs or AIG executives."
Leno is critical of several issues and powerful figures in this joke. First off, Leno seems to be commenting on the fickleness of the media in that one day the focus is upon matters of political significance, referencing the water board torture methods employed by the CIA on Al Qaeda detainees under the Bush Administration, then quickly moves onto isolated incidents of swine flu in America that are hyped up to be a possible pandemic threat. Leno neatly ties these two subjects of media fascination by alluding to Cheney having involvement in swine flu's spread similar to his signing off on the CIA's use of water board torture. Indicting Cheney as the source of swine flu plays on Cheney's celebrity text of being a powerful and ruthless figure that operates secretly for his own ends with little regard for human life. Lastly, Leno speaks about the AIG bailout fiasco by comparing the AIG executives to swine which is obviously criticizing their greedy misappropriation of tax payers funds for themselves.
Forgot to mention that the above Leno joke from was this last Monday, April 27, 2009.
from tuesday may 5, 2009
David Letterman-"They're really digging for stuff on Obama. He gave a speech and accidently referred to Cinco de Quatro, the 4th of May instead on the 5th. he apologized saying he only knows about 15 words in Spanish. Big deal. George Bush only knew 15 words in English."
Adrienne-Letterman is commenting on a few celebrities and the media in general in this joke. Letterman starts by noting the media's unending search for dirt on Obama that reveals frivolous information. Like this Cinco do Quatro slip up. Letterman obviously sees Obama's need to apologize for this slip up as trivial, but Letterman takes Obama's admission of being unfamiliar with the Spanish language to attack former President Bush's poor public speaking skills and his inability to apologize for them.
Chad's
Joke: Letterman: "The oldest woman in the world passed away yesterday. She was 130 years old. She's survived by her husband, Ashton Kutcher. So, I guess this moves Katie Couric to the top spot."
Analysis: In this one joke, Letterman targets three celebrities and one celetoid, of sorts. The oldest person in the world is a routine celetoid position that the media often uses for "weird/interesting" news tid bits. By saying that the oldest woman in the world's husband is Ashton Kutcher, he is taking a shot at Demi Moore, the 46-year-old actress married to Kutcher, who is 16 years her junior. He then takes a shot at Katie Couric, the talk show host/television journalist. Couric is 52. It is interesting that at 52, Couric is now at an age that Hollywood considers extremely old; old enough to be the brunt of a joke about being the oldest person in the world. Why not use Barbara Walters, who has a similiar job and is a full 27 years old? The difference is in the celebrity text: Couric, though only in her early fifties, has a celebrity image of being pretty, exuberant, and "fun" that no longer matches her age. However, she continues to present that same image. She is outgrowing her image, and this joke preys on her for it.
Joke: Jay Leno says "Last night I'm in the grocery store and I'm at the checkout and I look at the cover of people magazine and it says 'John and Kate a marriage in crisis.' And Kate says 'we might split up.' And I realize, who the hell are these people? Am I missing something? Who is that? Well, apparently they are from a TV show John and Kate Plus 8, about a married couple w/ eight kids, and according to People [magazine] the couple might split up because John is seeing someone else. Ironically, you know who he is seeing? The Octo-mom!
Analysis: Here Leno is commenting on three different celetoid texts. John and Kate are two people from a reality television show who are apparently having relationship problems. The major backdrop for their celetoid statuses is the fact that they have eight children. The social transgression of John cheating on his wife gives him notoriety, thus causing his appearance in the media to flare.
In an attempt to reach more of an audience Leno adds another celetoid to the mix, someone with a similar text. The Octo-mom also has eight children. It is interesting that Leno attaches the Octo-mom, who has a moral text that can be disputed, with John, who's new transgression can hardly be seen as appropriate considering his original text as a family man.
I also would note that Leno's position as a mediator and the fact that he is a celebrity gives him a unique influence on other celebrity texts. In this example Leno could be seen as a gatekeeper by enforcing the celetoid statuses he makes fun of. By making it seem like he does not know who is on the cover of a popular magazine he is letting his audience know that those people are not important. And that you should forget about them as soon as you laugh at the joke.
Joke: Jay Leno says, "Miss California is still claiming those topless photos were an accident, that a gust of wind blew her top off. You know something we may have found the greatest early tornado warning system in the country! You send this girl out into a field and as soon as her top blows off you hide in the basement."
Analysis: Well, Miss California has only gained celetoid status in the last couple of weeks and so far there are two items on her celetoid text: 1) that she had semi-nude pictures taken of her as a teenager; and 2) that she is openly against gay or "opposite" marriage. Leno picked the first one to open his monologue (perhaps because his show is more conservative). Whichever is the case Leno is making the point that Miss California is not fooling anyone and has little credibility.
David Letterman's Top Ten Surprises in the Sarah Palin Memoir
10. She's already completed her 2012 presidential concession speech
9. Her husband Todd is a person of interest in dozens of unsolved snowmobile hit and runs
8. State troopers have been instructed to taser Katie Couric on sight
7. Memoir is misspelled
6. Not only can she see Russia, earlier today she saw the astronauts working on Hubble.
5. The entire thing, plaziarized word for word from Artie Lange's "Too Fat to Fish".
4. Cover shows her in a passionate embrace with a shirtless Fabio.
3. Sworn in as Govenor with her left hand on a copy of Guns And Ammo magazine.
2. Claims she had a 3 way sex with Michael Phelps and a stripper.
1. She voted for Obama.
Analysis:
David Letterman is using different pieces that make up Sarah Palin's celebrity text in order to poke fun at her. Everyone knows about her ambition, her commentary regarding Russia, her far right conservatism and general dislike for Obama. This allows the joke to be extended into other arenas in order to keep the joke alive while promoting her celetoid status in a backhanded manner by making her the butt of jokes she created herself.
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