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Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

I'm not a Washington person.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

It's very hard to write humor.

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.