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Hodgman bests Obama online

By: Jeff Dufour and Kiki Ryan
Washington Examiner
06/28/09 5:07 PM EDT


John Hodgman’s routine at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner last weekend got mixed reviews from the Washington elite — but not by YouTube viewers.

As of Sunday afternoon, Hodgman’s standup bit from the weekend prior had garnered 380,884 hits on the video-sharing site. Contrast that to President Barack Obama’s remarks, which had earned less than half of that, at 153,115.

In fact, Hodgman’s performance topped Obama’s remarks at May’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (302,349 hits) and Wanda Sykes’ standup routine there as well (190,674).

Perhaps those “nerds” that he professed to be one of are more powerful than we thought.




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