I’ll tell you a quick story … we have dinner together, my wife asks my two daughters, seven and four–Malia, “How was your day?” She’ll say, “Tell us about it.” Four year old, Sasha, “How was your day?” They ask my wife, “How was your day?” Then finally my wife says, “Well, let’s ask Daddy how his day was.” And, ahh, my four year old will say, “Boring.” And my wife will say, “Well, that’s not nice, you know, actually people come and listen to Daddy speak.” And the two of them fall out of their chairs. They think that’s the funniest thing–the notion that somebody would be interested in what their father has to say.

BARACK OBAMA, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, May 12, 2006

“Now if YOU laugh at me, let’s just say a certain panel is gonna get all “thumbs down” on you in a big hurry.”