By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY
With a name like Weiner, it was just a matter of time before the adolescent humor got out of hand.
Weiner uncovered: Daily Show host Jon Stewart tried to avoid the obvious jokes about his friend Anthony Weiner during Monday's telecast. "This guy is ripped," Stewart said about a photograph of a shirtless Weiner.
Weiner uncovered: Daily Show host Jon Stewart tried to avoid the obvious jokes about his friend Anthony Weiner during Monday's telecast. "This guy is ripped," Stewart said about a photograph of a shirtless Weiner.
Embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., was already the butt of jokes after questions about a lewd crotch shot sent from his Twitter account surfaced late last month. But Monday's mea culpa news conference, in which the seven-term Democrat from New York City bared the naked truth about his transgressions after having contended his account had been hacked, opened the humor floodgates in newspapers, social media, radio and late-night TV.
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By Tuesday, a play on his apology speech ? presented by sad-faced dachshunds ? was getting scores of hits on buzzfeed.com. Cable TV's Spike Channel also was using a bit of canine humor ? posting an advance clip of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog puppet "pooping" on Weiner in the Guys Choice Awards show, which is scheduled to air Friday.
"I'm a little late to this party," David Letterman said on his LateShow monologue Monday. "But oh, what a party it is."
Letterman introduced a new show segment titled "What's in Anthony's underpants tonight?" Monday night: a portable radio.
Late Show's popular Top 10 list was "Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Tweeting a Photo of Your Deal." (No. 7: "Do I have a last name that would make this especially embarrassing?")
Late-night rival Jay Leno pulled out an iPhone showing a video of a grooving dancer wearing only underpants. "Let's face it, we're all in ninth grade," Leno said.
Comedian Jon Stewart, a friend of Weiner's, kept his ribbing mostly above the belt on his Comedy Central show with a "Chest in Show" segment.
"I can't believe this guy and I are the same ? age. This guy is ripped," Stewart said.
Fellow Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert could barely contain his glee on his faux news Colbert Report, calling Weinergate a "sadly delicious, sordid saga."
"I think we'll all remember where we were when we found out, this is in fact Anthony Weiner's (penis)," Colbert said. "Naked, he must look like a windsock hanging off a parking meter."
Robbie Vorhaus, a crisis management specialist who blogs for the Huffington Post, says the Weiner ribbing could be even more juvenile. "Thank goodness they don't have any children. The question would be, 'How do all the little Weiners feel about this?'"
Satirist Andy Borowitz has been skewering Weiner on his website, borowitzreport.com.
"Tough to know what Weiner was really thinking during his press conference because he was standing behind a podium," Borowitz tweeted.
"With a name like Weiner, the immaturity level is already at a fourth-grade level. The joke's already there," Borowitz tells USA TODAY. "I'm doing every dumb schoolyard joke I ever did ? 'he was a rising star,' 'he's going to work hard.' It brings out the inner 12-year-old."
Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman, appearing on cable's MSNBC on Tuesday, suggested the political fallout won't die anytime soon.
"If I was advising him, I would have done one interview and shut up," Bragman says.
Still, the Weiner jokes may soon run their course.
"This is almost like Halloween. You never have so much candy in one place," Borowitz says. "But candy is fun the first day. Then you start vomiting the next. I sort of feel that way about Weiner right now. There was already a feeding frenzy. There's not much left on the carcass."
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