hail to the pretend chief: top 10 fictional presidents
| written by daroff on 07/21/08 | 1 comment |
we’ve all sat back and mused about our favorite fictional characters becoming president. what if jack bauer was president, wouldn’t he kick so much ass? or what if those meat heads from predator got into politics? these are characters from all walks of fiction that took on the office with strength of character or sheer strength of fist. this is fiction’s executive branch of awesome, the 10 most kickass presidents of all pretend time.
#10 - president jack ryan (debt of honor, executive orders, the bear and the dragon)
tom clancy made a career out of turning analyst jack ryan into the world’s biggest bad ass. somehow, having taken down the russians, the i.r.a., and the drug cartels, clancy had nothing left to do but make jack president. remember how bad ass harrison ford was in patriot games and clear and present danger or how much smarter than everyone else alec baldwin was in the hunt for red october. had it not been for the affleck connection, jack ryan could have been number 1.
#9 - president charles logan (24, season 5)
one of the most exciting moments i have ever had watching tv was in season 5 of 24 when it’s revealed that the president, this bumbly, mumbly lump of a man, was behind the terrorist attacks. he wasn’t your average supervillain, though. he didn’t have some master plan. it was like he was playing bad guy just like he was playing being president. that just made him even more bad ass.
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hipster government: “yes, we get it!”
| written by geoffrey on 07/15/08 | 3 comments |
check out this funny sketch from my friends in the comedy troupe your girlfriend, featuring mr. show’s john ennis! i hope our next president understands why fresh prince of bel-air still holds up.
filed under politics, sketch comedy
bill o’reilly & i have things in common: battletoads edition
| written by asterios on 06/24/08 | 4 comments |
in this new column, appearing exclusively here at overtimecomedy.com (as nobody else will take my writing), i will outline the things that bill o’reilly and i have in common. the above video illustrates the first thing we share: we both hate how hard battletoads is!

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monday internet super links (5/19/08)
| written by geoffrey on 05/19/08 | 2 comments |
super links: activate!
filed under comics, disney, monday super links, movies: 90's, politics, sketch comedy, video games: nintendo
think about it: dan quayle could have been president
| written by daroff on 04/30/08 | 2 comments |

the similarity is undeniable. i wonder if quayle moonlighted as robin.
these days, the joke topic du jour is how stupid george w. bush is. the joke is so easy that it’s become stale before he’s even out of office. i’ve heard j.f.k. sex jokes that seem more relevant. in the dynne of endless bush-ism jokes, we forget that within our lifetime a man half as smart as dubya was a well aimed gun shot away from being president. thank god in this election cycle all we have to contend with is inexperience, out-of-touch-edness, and a total lack of moral fiber.
but wait, no one has picked a vice president yet
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dukakis: ‘dan quayle was completely hopeless’
| written by geoffrey on 03/12/08 | leave a comment |
with an intense battle taking place over the democratic nomination, it’s funny to look back on political battles past. here’s a 1988 ad for democratic washout michael dukakis, which takes hilarious aim at former vp dan quayle. a group of republican strategists are trying to figure out how to ’spin’ the famously stupid veep. conclusion? it’s hopeless.
four years later, he misspelled potato. i guess the ad wasn’t all propaganda.
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