Last night’s “Saturday Night Live” kicked off the show mocking the Republican of the moment – Rick Santorum.

Cast member Andy Samberg, sporting the now-signature Santorum sweater vest, shares how he plans to overtake former Gov. Mitt Romney and win the GOP presidential nomination.

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“I’m going to skip the slick TV ads and take my case directly to the people,” Santorum says, promising to visit every county across the nation in the process.

“Some of these counties are quite dangerous … San Francisco County, California is home to literally thousands of angry pillow biters and doughnut lovers  … ’nuff said.”

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Hollywood uber-producer Harvey Weinstein knows how to grab headlines.

The hard-charging executive is famous for his aggressive, and successful, Oscar movie campaigns. So when he picked up “Butter,” an indie film satirizing the GOP, Weinstein decided to invite Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann to an early screening.

Looks like that move backfired – big time.

Bachmann just pulled out of the GOP presidential race, and by the time “Butter” hits theaters this Spring the congresswoman won’t be in the headlines anymore.

The film itself might need all the help it can get, marketing wise.

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Interesting analysis below, but what’s most glaring is that neither Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid nor House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi received enough attention from our brave Late Night gang to even rank on this list. However! Two years-plus out of office, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney got hit 36 and 66 times respectively.

Takes an awful lot of guts to Speak! Truth! To! The! Out! Of! Power!

U.S. News and World Report:

Republicans were joked about by a margin of 3 to 1 over Democrats on late-night talk shows last year, but the biggest joke for Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon was President Obama, according to a new George Mason University study provided to Whispers.

Republicans took the top title because so many of them were speared by Fallon, Leno, and David Letterman, according to Robert Lichter, president of the school’s Center for Media and Public Affairs. …

But when it came to the top target of the 2011, Obama and shamed former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner came in first and second. Obama was gored by 342 jokes, Weiner 220. Third was former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, followed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 186 and Osama bin Laden at 172.

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If you’re Jon Stewart, you know you can’t point to President Barack Obama’s record and say, “just check the re-election box here.”

So that means Stewart and his fellow humorists, who more often than not set entertainment criteria aside to promote their agendas, will have to do some fancy footwork to keep Obama in office for four more years.

Voila, the race card.

Get the f[bleep] out out of here. Santorum? Really? Republicans, you gonna try every chocolate in the box? Is that, look, look, here’s your candidates. Here’s your candidates. Let’s call it a “White Man’s Sampler.”

Stewart couldn’t find the race card when the overwhelmingly white Occupy Wall Street crowd clogged up public space for weeks at a time. Handy that he found it just now, right?

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You’ll have to click on the image below to watch the video, which is legitimately clever and funny. Christianity takes a few hits, but I don’t know of any Christian who can’t laugh at his or herself as long we’re not — per the usual — being singled out by cowardly satirists posing as “ballsy.”

Thankfully, that is certainly not the case here and as expected, the very same leftists who would praise the bravery of anyone trashing Christians, are now screaming “Islamophobia!”:

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Gothamist:

While Leary is probably trying to shock his fans out of their pre-holiday stupor—fueled by a never ending stream of wallpaper Christmas tunes—we had a very tough time sitting through this particularly xenophobic one-note joke.

Islamophobia Watch:

A jaw-droppingly Islamophobic video has been posted by Irish-American comedian Denis Leary on WhoSay. Some years ago Leary took a firm stand against Mel Gibson’s antisemitism. But apparently crude anti-Muslim stereotyping is fine with Leary.

Please note that neither one said anything objecting to Leary’s shots at Christianity.

Who’s the “phobe” now?

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What hath the sax-lovin’ Bill Clinton wrought?

Then-Gov. Clinton appeared on “The Arsenio Hall Show” way back in 1992 to, A. play his saxophone and B. earn some cool points along the way.

He likely did both. Now, it’s common for both presidential hopefuls and the Commander in Chief himself to appear before Letterman, Leno and their peers to win over the masses.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney joined the late night fun this week by reading “The Late Show with David Letterman’s” Top Ten List. Letterman, whose liberal biases have become crystal clear in recent years, kindly allowed Romney to speak directly to his audience.

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Titled, “Things Mitt Romney Would Like to Say to the American People,” the bit included this highlight – “It’s a hairpiece …”

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We can expect plenty more fake news from Comedy Central in 2012.

The cable channel will be adding a new public affairs show satire on top of mock news programs like “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” The only question remaining may be this – will the show lean to the left or the far left?

The untitled program, part of the channel’s new programming slate, promises to tweak programs like “Face the Nation” and “Meet the Press” with an ’80s flair:

The program is from Wyatt Cenac, who is very familiar with fake news programs, given his role as a correspondent on “The Daily Show.” Cenac is serving as host, writer and EP of the still-untitled project.

Both “The Daily Show” and “Colbert” have proven ratings winners, but as the MediaBistro report notes the funny network isn’t batting a thousand in this area. Consider the recent news magazine spoof, “Jon Benjamin Has a Van,” which got the axe after just three episodes.

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The leftist Hollywood machine is in full force this season, as we’ve seen with both the Bachmann/Fallon incident and more recently, Miley Cyrus’ new foray into political commentary. The fact is that when it comes to the entertainment industry, liberals need to stick together (and attack conservatives) … especially if you can’t sing or act, or in Cyrus’ case, if you can do neither … and sound like Selma and Patty Simpson.

Note: No Miley Cyrus songs were actually listened to during the making of this video. Earmuffs!

The millisecond the new HBO comedy “Veep” was announced conservatives figured it would be yet another slam against Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin.

After all, Tina Fey’s impersonation of the former Vice Presidential candidate helped derail the McCain/Palin ticket, and celebrities love nothing more than slamming the hockey mom of five.

“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus promises viewers won’t hear any new Palin cracks when the comedy, which focuses on a senator turned overwhelmed vice president, debuts next year. The “Seinfeld” alum tells Capitol File magazine via Politico the new series will be so fair and balanced we won’t even know which party her character calls her own:

“There’s talk of the opposition and that party and this party, but it is never identified. So this is not a partisan politics show in any way. What it is, though, is a show about political behavior. And that is where the comedy comes from.”

She added, “This is in no way a parody of [Sarah Palin] or any other female politician.”

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[T]his is how it works in the world of late night.  The last election cycle saw the late night hosts go into overdrive for the Obama election campaign.  Between January 1, 2008 and July 31, 2008, the Center for Media and Public Affairs found that Jay Leno​, Conan O’Brien, and David Letterman​ made a grand total of 169 jokes about Obama, compared with 428 about Bush and 328 about McCain.  Comedy Central comedians were more even – Colbert made 129 jokes about McCain to 91 for Obama, and Stewart made more jokes about Obama than McCain, although the vast majority of jokes about Obama were fawning compliments and the vast majority about McCain were brutal slams.

Perhaps that was the real purpose of Obama’s routine appearances on late night television as president of the United States, an unprecedented breach of traditional decorum: he wanted to make it routine for all candidates to appear on the shows run by his allies.  By appearing himself, Obama essentially dared anyone who opposes him to take the seat opposite the Jon Stewarts and Jimmy Fallons of the world – and, as they have to, Republicans have taken the bait.  That’s why we’ve seen Rick Perry reading a top ten list on Letterman about his debate foibles.  That’s why Bachmann was on Fallon.  That’s why McCain deigned to appear with Stewart, even knowing what was coming.

Dennis Miller​ was both brave and correct when he bashed Jay Leno​ for kissing Obama’s royal arse last week.  He actually recommended that Leno hire Obama after Obama loses his re-election effort: “I could see you guys doing comedy bits on here where you come out as Carnut the Magnificent and you have the turban on and the mechanic overalls and he reads ‘You are correct, sir!’ off a teleprompter.”

More likely, Obama will end up hiring all of these comedians as his court jesters sometime in the near future.  Their ratings are dropping, and their biases are now obvious.  And we already know the relationships are good: the Comedy Central writers are Obama’s brain trust of hilarity, writing jokes for his speeches and giving him tips on how to win over an audience.

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It’s not fair … nobody told Barack Obama being an effective leader would be so darn hard!

Comedienne Chelsea Handler thinks the president couldn’t have known what to expect when he rode the HopeNChange Express all the way to the White House in 2008.

Handler shared her thoughts on President Obama recently with, who else, Piers Morgan on the Brit’s freakishly low-rated CNN show.

“I mean, everything is bought and paid for,” Handler said according to a transcript. “And I think anybody who has any sort of idealism, like Barack Obama, comes into … his position and, all of a sudden — you know, he has these dreams and he has these big ideas. People want to listen to him. He’s so vociferous about how he’s going to change the world. Then he gets into a situation where he had no idea that things were handled in a way that they were, that everything is bought, that everything is paid for, that there’s lobbyists, that there’s congressmen, and that you have to palliate all of these people. “

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Had Peter Schweizer’s new book, “Throw Them All Out,” hit stores a decade ago it would be easy for the press to ignore it.

Now, thanks to the Internet, pugnacious bloggers and a high-profile expose on “60 Minutes,” the book’s revelations that members of Congress are making a mint from insider trading can’t be hidden. Even Jay Leno is aware of the book’s most contentious material.

Leno referenced the book’s charges this week during one of his “Tonight Show” monologues:

“You ever notice these guys only spend their money when it’s a sure thing?”

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Even Jon Stewart couldn’t stomach the layers of hypocrisy – and filth – at the heart of Occupy Wall Street.

“The Daily Show” honored the end – for now – of Occupy Wall Street’s Occupation of Wall Street by sending one of its crack reporters to cover the movement. What they found was hypocrisy of the highest order, the kind of uncomfortable to watch comedy conservatives have been waiting to see since OWS first began.

So much material, and so few comedians having a crack at it.

But even the liberal folks over at the Comedy Central program couldn’t hold back. The result? A dilly of a comedy segment which didn’t even bother interviewing the most mentally unstable OWS members for comedy gold. They didn’t have to in order to mock the oh, so mockable OWS.

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Comedian Chris Rock usually has something funny – and biting – to say about everybody.

Everyone except President Barack Obama, apparently.

Rather than tee off on a leader presiding over a calamitous economy, or mock an administration up to its neck in crony capitalism, Rock would rather make apologies, not withering put downs.

The comedian and actor told fellow comedian Marc Maron on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast that he’s “fine with the president,” if only because he understands that the president has to keep his most aggressive policies on the back burner until he earns a second term.

“There’s a f——— art to the first term because you’re always running for a second term the whole time. It’s like Clinton’s first term. You can’t really do your gangsta sh— until your second term. … Even Bush couldn’t really f—- up the world until his second term. That’s when he put the hammer down.”

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Hollywood players didn’t need Sharon Bialek to form a negative impression of GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. The erstwhile Godfather Pizza CEO has an “R” next to his name, and that’s more than enough reason for most celebrities to vote against him.

But with Bialek’s tale of how Cain allegedly came on to her years earlier coming to light, celebrities have a new reason to smite him. A gaggle of famous folks rushed to Twitter this week to share 140 characters worth of disdain for Cain:

Bette Midler:
“Herman Cain was never vetted About the women he had petted Will all accusers form a line? We have to stop at 999.”

Warren Leight, Showrunner for Law and Order: SVU:
“Memo: to Herman Cain/ From SVU Writers Room: This is the moment in the story when your lawyer should ask about cutting a deal.”

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Wash Times:

If President Obama can spare a moment from such chores as winning re-election, he might find a few chuckles on late-night TV.

Times are tough for Mr. Obama, especially when it comes to his approval ratings. But things could be worse.

With Election Day looming one short year away, Mr. Obama’s most effective heat shield turns out to be his loyal opposition: Republicans scrapping to unseat him and getting lampooned for it by late-night TV comics.

The jokes range from blistering to silly to simply sophomoric. But it should be all the same to Mr. Obama: They’re not targeting him.

Among Republican challengers, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds steady as “the uncontested front-runner for everyone’s second choice,” in the wry appraisal of “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart. Meanwhile, Mr. Romney’s rivals scramble to gain an upper hand without falling prey to the next punch line.

In that latter mission, they often stumble as they, not the White House, take the brunt of late-night talk shows’ jibes.

On a recent edition of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,”Mr. Stewart played sound bites of such GOP contenders as Mr. Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.

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Leave it to Cartman to give Occupy Wall Street a much needed dose of reality.

Cartman, the foul-mouthed lad from Comedy Central’s “South Park,” savaged the nascent movement during last night’s new episode.

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The story involved Cartman’s girth throwing off the school’s score in a standardized physical fitness test. The students swiftly rebel against Cartman, the one percenter who wrecked the results of the remaining 99 percent. Cartman becomes a target at school, and he rushes home to his mother for consolation.

“Don’t you get it, Mom? People voted for Obama, and now that everything sucks they have to blame me!” he wails.

In case the show’s message didn’t hit home there, the show’s writers flipped the race card on its ear moments later.

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The beguiling Baya Benmahmoud sees the world through fascist-covered glasses.

Baya, the main character in the new French comedy ‘The Names of Love,’ is obsessed with her far-left politics. How obsessed? She uses her feminine wiles, and they are considerable, to change the hearts and minds of those who dare to believe in right-of-center politics.

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If ‘The Names of Love’ sounds like yet another liberal treatise from the film industry, think again. Not only is Baya, glowingly portrayed by Sara Forestier, hardly one to be admired, but the film itself is so overstuffed with ripe comedic elements that any political grandstanding goes down like tapioca pudding.

Peel back the bald political content and you’ll see a damaged woman attempting to find love with a man who examines dead birds for a living. When was the last time Kate Hudson, Katherine Heigl or Jennifer Aniston tried that in a rom-com?

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Her name is “Ketchup” or possibly “Catch up.”

You can now sense that the whole Occupy movement is starting to dwindle and implode under the weight of their own stupidity, hypocrisy, and hedonism.  This certainly isn’t helping and now that Stephen Colbert has gone after them this hard, that says a lot. 

Contrast the Colbert segment above to his show from September 21.  Methinks the Left no longer considers the Occupiers helpful to the cause.

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