DAVID LETTERMAN - COMICS ECALATE OBAMA SPOOFS

COMICS ECALATE OBAMA SPOOFS

For the first time in memory, winning the Nobel Peace Prize has become the subject of late-night lampooning by TV talk-show hosts and Saturday Night Live . The latest comedy attack follows an SNL sketch a week earlier in which a faux President Obama, played by Fred Armisen, boasted that he didn't understand what his critics were complaining about since he had accomplished "nada" during his first year in the White House. This week, Armisen's Obama announced that he had won the Peace Prize "for not being George Bush." Jay Leno likewise described the award as Obama's "biggest accomplishment as president so far." Jimmy Fallon took note of the fact that the prize comes with a $1.4 million cash award. "Usually to get a check that big, you need to blackmail David Letterman," he quipped. In the New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg wrote "We can take it as a sign of what a lucky fellow our President is that winning the Nobel Peace Prize has been widely counted as a bad break for him. ... Given that his perceived political problem is exaggerated expectations, does he really need a Nobel Peace Prize before he has actually made any peace?"

12/10/2009