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The joke's on McCain: Late-night comedians lay off Obama
Top of the Ticket — ... The study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs finds that only cable's Comedy Central -- whose primary comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, more closely follow the day's headlines, which have been dominated by Obama -- has slightly more jokes about the freshman Illinois senator. ...

It's no joke: Late-night comedians laying off Obama
Top of the Ticket — ... The study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs finds that only Comedy Central, whose primary comedians, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, more closely follow the day's headlines -- which have been dominated by Obama -- has slightly more jokes about the freshman Illinois senator. ...

Study: Obama Isn't Funny
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... (they've been on reruns lately), this new study from Center for Media and Public Affairs isn't that surprising. Between Jan. 1 and July 31 the study ...

Republicans Are Funny
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... about all they have to work with.” Tim Graham, director of media analysis for Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, tells Fox, “There is a racial minefield that they’re trying to avoid. I think they see Obama as a historic figure, and because he’s a historic figure it’s like making jokes about Martin Luther King.” Maybe.  And maybe there’s some liberal bias to these shows.  But taking a snapshot over a short period of time doesn’t really tell us much. I checked the CMPA site to get the study breakdown but there wasn’t one.  They also did a ...