WP: Palin Gag? Comedy's All in the Mis-Timing

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Letterman Contrite, But Hosts All Joked

Did Sarah Palin not notice when late-night comedians were making fun of her daughter's pregnancy last fall, or did she simply get fed up with one-too-many cracks when a now-contrite David Letterman weighed in last week?

Bristol Palin, the Alaska governor's then-pregnant 17-year-old, was a punch line for almost all of the late-night TV crew -- Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart, as well as Letterman -- almost as soon as her mother was chosen as Sen. John McCain's Republican running mate.

Facing enormous criticism for his Palin-daughter joke, Letterman on his show last night apologized to the Palin family, saying it could not "be defended."

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On Sept. 2, during the presidential campaign, Leno, for example, told this joke on "The Tonight Show": "Governor Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. And you thought John Edwards was in trouble before! Now he has really done it."

On Oct. 10, O'Brien, then host of "Late Night," quipped: "Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box."

While the pregnant-daughter theme was most common on late-night shows during the fall campaign, it has never fully disappeared. And Letterman told far fewer of these jokes than some of his late-night brethren.

Through mid-March, Leno had made 15 jokes about the Palin daughter's pregnancy, Stewart had told four on "The Daily Show," and Letterman checked in with eight, according to an analysis of late-night humor by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a nonpartisan research organization affiliated with George Mason University.

The comedian most likely to bash Bristol Palin? O'Brien, with 20 jokes at her expense.

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[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. It's so painfully obvious

that The Shrew Palin was desperate for media attention, and she landed on the bad joke, posturing as an outraged mother and an aggrieved feminist.

Nothing but another chapter in the Attention Whore's sorry saga.

Remember when she refused to answer when Katie Couric asked her if she was a feminist, and now she's all up in Dave's face, defending young women everywhere. And even fucking NOW - which just lost my long-time contributions forever - came out in The Shrew Palin's defense.

I call bullshit on all of it, and Dave did a good job with that apology, taking all the air out of her fucking balloon. Now, I hope to hell she's gone for good. I am so fucking sick of that Shrew..........