Looks like President Barack Obama is already thinking about what he'll do when he leaves office in a couple years.
The president was a guest on The Colbert Report for a special Washington, D.C. edition of the Comedy Central Show (Colbert was in town to host the Kennedy Center Honors). But Obama "surprised" the host by coming out on stage early.
"You've been taking shots at my job. I decided I'm going to take a shot at yours," Obama announced, as a seemingly flustered Stephen Colbert quickly exited.
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Obama took over Colbert's standard "The Word" segmentthough, to make it more presidential, he renamed it "The Decree." And Monday night's subject was the highly controversial Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.
"How hard can this be?" the president quipped.
He then launched into reading Colbert's lines from the segment, titled "To Health in a Handbasket." Obama lauded the law's popularity among young adults though just half as popular as the Grumpy Cat video. He pondered how it might be stopped, when so many people like it; the answer was to move it to CBS (as is well known, Colbert is leaving Comedy Central to take over for David Letterman'sLate Show next year).
Obama then considered how to sell it even more to young adults. Well, they like comedy shows. But wouldn't that be beneath a president's dignity? At least it would be above his approval rating (rim shot!).
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The regular interview part of the show was less fun. Obama and Colbert discussed the midterm elections and the low turnout among young voters, and it was hard to believe all those hands raised among the George Washington University crowd. They touched on the Keystone pipeline, during which Obama mistakenly or mockingly called Colbert "Bill." As in O'Reilly.
Colbert had a neat solution to both the Keystone pipeline law and immigration policy: Just divert the thing to Mexico. Put "a sign that says 'Mucho Jobso,'" the host suggested. "The people take the thing all the way over the border, they end up in Canada, and the Canadians are too polite to kick them out."
Well, at least one of the men could do the other's job!
The Colbert Report airs Mondays through Thursdays at 11:30 p.m. on Comedy Central.
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