The Next Punchline

Quickly moving into comedic overexposure, finally shoving "Brokeback" jokes out of the number one slot (if I had a nickel for every "I wish I could quit you" punchline I've heard, I'd be, well as rich as Ricky Gervais) are the Cheney-with-a-gun jokes. My favorite so far is this, from last week's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me:" Roy Blunt Jr. said he wasn't going to make any Cheney jokes. "It's too easy. Like shooting a 78 year old man in a [rest of line drowned out in audience laughter]..."