Joe Biden and J-O-B-S

Joe Biden provides a wealth of material for comedians, yet the writers for SNL, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien just can't seem to come up with any jokes about the guy.

Surely some writer can do something with this "J-O-B-S" thing.

The joke writes itself.

Letterman has a regular feature: "A Message from John McCain" and "A Message from Sarah Palin."

The actual words of McCain and Palin are spliced together to form idiotic statements. They aren't funny as much as they are cheap swipes.

For example, here are some of Letterman's "A Message from John McCain":

"I have traveled all over the world looking for really good Jell-O."

"Joe Lieberman and I sometimes hold each other naked."

Funny? I think I'd be more likely to laugh if Letterman also did "A Message from Barack Obama" and "A Message from Joe Biden."

He doesn't. McCain and Palin are Letterman's only targets.

Here's one of Letterman's "A Message from Sarah Palin":

"I can see Iraq and Afghanistan from Wasilla Main Street."

Letterman followed that one up by saying, "No thank you, Miss Alaska."

If that stuff is the best that Letterman's writers can come up with, then that's the best they can do. Pretty pathetic.

My problem with Letterman and the other comedians is that the jokes about McCain and Palin aren't balanced with jokes about Barack Obama and Joe Biden. There are nearly no jokes that are made at the expense of Obama and very, very few that mock Biden.

No highly paid writer has to edit Biden's words to create something funny. Just run the clips.
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On a related note:

A study shows the Kings of Late Night are not equal-opportunity destroyers this year when it comes to telling jokes about the candidates for president and vice president -- they're hammering Republicans a stunning seven times more often than they skewer Democrats.

The Center for Media and Public Affairs, a media analysis group, kept a tally of jokes told about the presidential contenders on the "Late Show" and "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" in the five weeks after McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate and vaulted the little-known Alaska governor into the national spotlight.

The total: Republicans, 286. Democrats, 42.

"Generally the Republicans get targeted much more often than Democrats, but this election is driving it off the charts," said CMPA Executive Director Donald Rieck.