After a hard fought primary battle Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are now campaigning together! Reminds me of another famous political couple that fought like cats and dogs but, in the end, stuck together. If you don’t know who I mean, perhaps this joke that I wrote and David Letterman closed out his monologue with on Thursday’s Late Show (6/27/08) will clear it up:
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are now making campaign appearances together.
During the day they’re at campaign functions together and then at night they go to separate hotels - no wait, I’m sorry, that’s Hillary and Bill.
You can also watch the video of the entire monologue here.
Let’s just hope they don’t show up to a campaign event together in the same pants suit - that’d be awkward.
By this time I think we’ve all got a sense of the differences between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She’s a woman, he’s a man; she’s white, he’s black; he wears pants suits, she wears … shorter pants suits. You get the idea.
But, aside from both being Democratic Senators, they’re also more alike than you realize. Here, I’ll let David Letterman explain how, using a joke I wrote for him that he told on Wednesday’s Late Show (3/19/08).
If you think about it, Hillary and Obama have a lot in common.
Both are lawyers, both are senators, and neither one is sleeping with Bill Clinton.
Here’s the audio:
You can also watch the video of the entire monologue here.
I submitted this joke to the show back in late February. When Dave told it, it took me a second to remember that I had written it. I love when that happens…
