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PUBLIC OPINION > Obama and Jimmy Kimmel Were Equally Funny at the White House Dinner

SodaHead News 2012/05/01 16:00:00
Jimmy Kimmel does comedy for a living, but he had some pretty stiff competition when President Obama took the stage at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. At one point, the president played a mock smear ad accusing himself of eating dog in Indonesia -- a poke at the Romney-Obama media dogfight. He joked about getting drunk texts from Hillary Clinton, alluding to a recent photo of her texting that went viral. He even faked a repeat of the "hot mic" slip up at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, asking "off the record" why he was wasting time there. We asked the public if he was funnier than Kimmel, the headlining comedian.

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Despite Kimmel's profession, he was neck-and-neck with the President. Granted, they probably both had some polished staff writers on hand, but that's beside the point. Both men delivered their spiels and delivered them well. One commenter who favored Kimmel wrote, "The pro beats the amateur nearly every time. Obama has good speech writers but JK has good comedy writers." One who favored Obama wrote, "Comedy is a bonus perk provided by a president. Kimmel is a professional funnyman -- different scale used here."

Conservatives Go With Kimmel

Okay, let's not act like politics didn't play a part on this. When we broke it down by political leaning, there was an obvious bias on both sides: 68% of conservatives went with Kimmel and 74% of liberals went with Obama. Libertarians and progressives were even more pronounced. If we're to judge by the moderate vote, it goes to Obama by about 10%.

Youth for Obama

It's well-known that Obama's campaign appeals to younger audiences, and the results are evidence that his staff is still doing a good job of keeping it that way. However, the cutoff age was about 25, which is just six years of voting-age constituents. Not enough to win an election but more than enough to get a spot on prime time. Next up, "Conan"?

Kimmel Does Well With the Ladies

For a guy who used to co-host "The Man Show" with Adam Carolla, Jimmy did pretty well with the female vote. We don't expect women were his primary audience then, what with the trampoline girls and all but he kept it (mostly) classy at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Maybe we should be more surprised that he lacked support in the male category.

If you'd like to vote on this question, dig deeper into the demographics, or engage in existing discussion about the topic, visit our poll about Obama and Kimmel. We'd love to hear from you!
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  • GUAPO~LMAO!~ 2012/05/01 20:39:43 (edited)
    GUAPO~LMAO!~
    +13
    Let's have some fun while millions of people don't have jobs, more people on welfare than ever and also food stamps and we owe trillions to China!!! Hahahahaha!!!! Let's have more fun!!!

    What in the f........ have we come to???? and the whole world is laughing at us!!

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  • Wizard jdemme 2012/05/02 14:33:28
    Wizard
    +1
    What do they expect?
    Recessions cost money!
  • CAPISCE jdemme 2012/05/03 12:36:38
    CAPISCE
    I don't believe he is any of the things you mentioned but I do believe he is the worst President of all time bypassing the once undefeated champion Jimmy Carter.
  • jdemme CAPISCE 2012/05/03 23:13:01
    jdemme
    Congrats then, you have no idea what you're talking about, and you should probably go read a book.
  • CAPISCE jdemme 2012/05/04 13:13:05
  • jdemme CAPISCE 2012/05/04 18:14:53
  • CAPISCE jdemme 2012/05/04 21:01:52
  • Bob DiN 2012/05/02 00:28:32
    Bob DiN
    +2
    They are both jokers, but Kimmel is funny and Obama is not but he is dangerous.
  • Adam 2012/05/02 00:11:05
    Adam
    +3
    ANGRY RANTING BASED ENTIRELY ON MY POLITICAL LEANINGS!
  • Mr. Basket Adam 2012/05/02 06:13:12
    Mr. Basket
    Such language!
  • Adam Mr. Basket 2012/05/02 18:01:06
    Adam
    +1
    VAUGE AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE WRONG INVOCATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT PAIRED WITH A CHILDISH AD HOMINEN!
  • L K 2012/05/02 00:10:58
    L K
    +1
    They both were great!
  • Captain-Morgan 2012/05/01 22:51:32
    Captain-Morgan
    +5
    ONLY IF YOUR DRINKING SPIKED KOOL- AID WOULD YOU SEE OBAMA AS FUNNY AS KIMMEL... BESIDE'S THE SICK " EATING DOG " JOKES... AND AND HIS WAR ON WOMAN WITH HIS HOCKEY MOM JOKE... DON'T GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB YET MR. PRESIDENT OBAMA.. WERE GOING TO FIRE YOU IN NOVEMBER...
  • AnonRanGER Captain... 2012/05/02 11:37:31
    AnonRanGER
    Easy on the caps lock, and learn f-ing English.
  • Markie 2012/05/01 21:28:27
    Markie
    +1
    Great fun, and decent jokes. More of this and less Romney
  • DougE 2012/05/01 20:48:28
    DougE
    +5
    Obama's clearly the funnier of the two: When he says they speak Austrian in Austria, or describes the 57 US states, or our transcontinental rail system, man those are real knee slappers. How about corpes? Man, this guy has some material.
  • GUAPO~L... DougE 2012/05/01 22:07:34 (edited)
    GUAPO~LMAO!~
    +9
    When he said that they speak Austrian in Austria and the USA has 57 states, etc. etc.... those in the real world are called "F**K UPS" and reflects his stupidity.
    He ought to join the circus that's where he belongs.

    obama the clown
  • AnonRanGER GUAPO~L... 2012/05/02 11:38:20
    AnonRanGER
    Just wondering what your thoughts on Bush jr. are...
  • GUAPO~LMAO!~ 2012/05/01 20:39:43 (edited)
    GUAPO~LMAO!~
    +13
    Let's have some fun while millions of people don't have jobs, more people on welfare than ever and also food stamps and we owe trillions to China!!! Hahahahaha!!!! Let's have more fun!!!

    What in the f........ have we come to???? and the whole world is laughing at us!!
  • Ev Rom GUAPO~L... 2012/05/01 21:54:53
    Ev Rom
    +6
    we were the laughing stock of the world when Bush was in office and you guys loved it then, what changed?
  • GUAPO~L... Ev Rom 2012/05/01 22:02:23
    GUAPO~LMAO!~
    +10
    There you go again.. are you aware that Bush has not been the president for over 3 and half years???

    blame bush blame bush blame bush blame bush
  • Ev Rom GUAPO~L... 2012/05/01 23:39:28
    Ev Rom
    +6
    Bush set the house on fire and you guys are mad Obama couldn't put it out LOL
  • GUAPO~L... Ev Rom 2012/05/02 00:33:34
  • C. C. R... Ev Rom 2012/05/02 01:34:56
  • J Ev Rom 2012/05/02 16:50:03
    J
    +3
    Obama claimed to be the "fireman". If he couldn't put it out and caused the whole dam* town to burn... yup, we're mad.
  • Ev Rom J 2012/05/02 20:03:19
    Ev Rom
    +1
    LOL but not at the guy who set the fire, are you mad at the 9-11 fire fighters?
  • J Ev Rom 2012/05/02 21:30:41
    J
    +2
    Even if Bush did "start the fire", rather than putting it out - or even containing it, Obama's theory was to burn the whole town and then we could just start all over with a whole new city - and crap, who cares that there was not money to even build the first shelter.
  • Ev Rom J 2012/05/03 02:22:34
    Ev Rom
    yes but you only cry about Obama.
  • J Ev Rom 2012/05/04 19:56:50
    J
    I admired Bush wanting to protect this nation, but he made some mistakes and I didn't hold my peace about it. Obama has not done ANYTHING to improve this nation - unless you are of the mindset that we should become more compassionate by lowering our living standards to that of a thrid-world nation.
  • Ev Rom J 2012/05/04 19:58:39
  • J Ev Rom 2012/05/04 20:34:30
    J
    He didn't attack the wrong country. You aren't paying attention. Details are slowly slipping out about the WMD in Iraq. But, it doesn't matter what the truth is, because people like you can only believe what your masters allow.
  • Ev Rom J 2012/05/04 20:51:00
    Ev Rom
    +1
    same could be said about you... it took them long enough to plant some stuff they couldn't fin in 10 years.
  • J Ev Rom 2012/05/07 19:35:59
    J
    They have been finding "stuff" for the 10+ years. Most wasn't reported for security (of our troops and our allies). And the rest wasn't reported because it would have put too many Iraqis in danger and we do have a compassionate military who don't like to see innocent people tortured. (notice the word innocent)
  • Ev Rom J 2012/05/08 07:38:56
  • Grammar... J 2012/05/08 16:58:25
  • Grammar... J 2012/05/08 17:00:17
    Grammar Freak
    Because Bush/Cheney spent the surplus & put everyone's grandchildren in hock up to their eyeballs.

    What a shill.
  • J Grammar... 2012/05/17 21:10:08
    J
    How blind!
  • Grammar... J 2012/05/17 21:40:14
    Grammar Freak
    Excuse me? What's blind about that? There was a surplus when Bush took over. He & the Republicans spent it & your grandchildren's future, putting our nation into debt like it had never seen before. Obama's decision to put us even further in debt in order to save the economy from complete collapse was just another step along the same trail Bush laid down. Now, we have a boat load of blind people (yes, blind) in our nation who are willing to vote for one of the bastards who did his very damnedest to drill the whole even deeper & while profiting from the misfortunes of others & hiding the bulk of those profits off-shore.
    Oh yeah, I'm the one who's blind.
    Bush=Obama=Romney.
    You want more of the same, keep voting for the establishment that has already wrecked our nation. You'll get it.

    If you disagree, then show me the differences between the three of them.
  • J Grammar... 2012/05/18 16:06:15
  • Grammar... J 2012/05/20 09:31:22
    Grammar Freak
    ...& your point is?
    ...or am I supposed to thank you for providing a graphic that substantiates my post?
  • J Grammar... 2012/05/24 19:43:56
    J
    Then you are blind and choose to stay that way.

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