Rave reviews for Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers. The Weekend Update host headlined the White House Correspondents' dinner and tore into everyone from President Obama to Juan Williams, Katie Couric and the Tea Party. The President also managed to deliver quite a few zingers.
Watch both of their ROFL speeches AFTER THE JUMP ...
Donald Trump served as Meyers' primary target of the night. The comedian taunted Trump's potential presidential candidacy, saying, "Donald Trump has said he's running for president as a Republican—which is surprising because I thought he was running as a joke."
Trump was not amused.
One of his final jabs at Trump: "[Trump has] said he’s got a great relationship with ‘the blacks.’ Unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I bet he’s mistaken."
The President also zinged Trump on his birther conspiracies. "Donald Trump is here tonight Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like, 'Did we fake the moon landing?' 'What really happened on Roswell?' And 'Where are Biggie and Tupac?'"
Perhaps the epic moment of the evening was when President Obama played what he described as his "birth video." The footage was a clip from The Lion King which showed the birth of Simba.
In all, it was quite an evening. Watch the President and Seth Meyers' ROFL speeches AFTER THE JUMP ...
I did not know The President had such a wicked sense of humor! LOL
I loved it!
Posted by: Toddy English | 01 May 2011 at 17:20
I was On The Floor after that "Biggie and Tupac" line. Don't come for Obama - he'll cut ya!
Posted by: ReggieH | 01 May 2011 at 21:41
Seth Meyers made the "c span osama joke' little did we know our President at the time knew exactly where he 'really' was!!!!
Posted by: Eric | 02 May 2011 at 10:52
I'd seen Obama's speech yesterday and it was good, but wow Seth really mopped up! I love how he went in on Trump and the republicans! I rarely see him outside of the SNL news which is hit or miss, but this was great. Fabulous choice!
Posted by: Procrastination_Xtravaganza | 02 May 2011 at 12:49
President Obama was very good and I am happy to see him get a few jabs in at TRUMP...CHUMP...
Posted by: BLACK | 02 May 2011 at 22:07
Classic! That 'birth video' had me ROFL!
Posted by: Distant Lover | 03 May 2011 at 21:18