In the meantime, while the President may be giving us unintentional laughs, other parts of government have been doing it on purpose.

Colin Powell spoke a few nights ago about Iraq and decided to joke about the Iraqi election of Saddam Hussein as mentioned below. "In Iraq," he says, "they don't have hanging chads. All they have are hangings."

Senator John McCain hosted SNL last night. I haven't watched it yet, but judging from past appearances by other politicians, it could be mildly entertaining. Then again, SNL has been off its game this year after Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer left.

And according to the Daily Cal, it's suspected that somebody brought in a tank of laughing gas into the Senate chambers on campus and pumped it in during a session last week.

Wednesday night's ASUC Senate meeting was business as usual until the senators broke out into uncontrollable laughter for 20 minutes at midnight.

"You are all out of order. I don't know if you guys are ADD tonight," said Executive Vice President Han Hong at the meeting, before being distracted herself by one of the many side conversations.

Aloha Independence Senator Kris Cuaresma-Primm announced that his girlfriend, UC Berkeley senior Mika Thieme, had released laughing gas from a scuba tank in the senate chambers while sitting in on the meeting.

Thieme later denied that any laughing gas had been released, although she admitted she did open a scuba tank outside senate chambers.

"I don't know why everyone was laughing, but it had nothing to do me," Thieme said.

Although the laughing was uncharacteristic of behavior at senate meetings, senators said it did not interfere with their ability to conduct business.