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Trump vs. Biden vs. Clooney
After George Clooney, in a guest essay for The New York Times, called for President Biden to drop out of the race, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!”
“You know whom movies never worked out for? Donald Trump,” said Kumail Nanjiani, the guest host on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” “A man who somehow blew a one-second cameo in ‘Home Alone 2.’”
“Of course, the big difference between George Clooney and Donald Trump is that George Clooney actually made money from a casino.” — KUMAIL NANJIANI
“It’s crazy the election of 2024 could be decided by the Sexiest Man Alive of 1997.” — KUMAIL NANJIANI
Biden campaign officials responded to the essay, with one saying the actor quickly left a recent campaign fund-raiser, while president stayed for three hours. Seth Meyers found the comment snarky, saying, “Your slam on Clooney is that he left the fund-raiser three hours early? No [expletive]. He’s got better places to be — he’s George Clooney.”
“OK, fair enough. but most people would leave early, too, if they knew that they were going home with George Clooney.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
“What’s next, Brad Pitt getting body slammed by Jimmy Carter?” — SETH MEYERS
“But maybe it should be inspiration. Maybe the only way Biden can win this fight is to assemble a crack team of well-funded, highly skilled bank robbers, ‘Ocean’s 11’ style. There’s Gavin Newsom, the smooth-talking frontman; Pete Buttigieg, the expert safecracker; and Kamala Harris, the genius card counter posing as the drunk aunt at the craps table.” — SETH MEYERS
The Punchiest Punchlines (Press Conference Edition)
“The press conference was scheduled for 5:30 but was then moved to an hour later. Smart. Everyone knows that the later it is, the sharper Biden gets. Just for fair warning, by 7:15, he’s in REM sleep.” — JIMMY FALLON
“Biden’s conference today was a big deal because it was ‘unscripted.’ Like the whole country got invited to our grandpa’s level one improv class.” — KUMAIL NANJIANI
“Whenever Biden speaks, it’s like I’m a stage mom at her 6-year-old’s commercial audition watching from the sidelines like, ‘Come on honey, you’ve got this! We need you to land this job so we can keep our health insurance and keep my family out of concentration camps.’” — KUMAIL NANJIANI
“I want to go on the record, and I say I am rooting for Joe Biden here. I hope he blows the socks off of everybody with his vitality. I hope he levitates. I hope he picks up a manhole cover and throws it 400 yards. I hope he pulls an eighteen-wheeler with his teeth, which I believe he could do because he may be 81, but his teeth are not old enough to vote yet.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
The Bits Worth Watching
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