Of all the celebrity fans of Game of Thrones, President Barack Obama is probably the biggest. He asked for, and received, advance copies of the Season 6 episodes, despite the show’s media blackout. As showrunner David Benioff put it, “When the commander-in-chief says, ‘I want to see advanced episodes,’ what are you gonna do?”
Obama’s fondness for the show came up again during his final White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the annual event when the president gets in front of a room full of journalists and roasts them. Obama got in plenty of good shots in during his 30-minute talk, and at one point brought up the Red Wedding.
He threatened to lock all the Republican lawmakers present at the dinner in the room and push through the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, Obama’s pic to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. “It’s like the Red Wedding,” he said. Check out the joke at 6:34.
In other fun videos, Jimmy Fallon’s house band The Roots recapped “The Red Woman,” the Game of Thrones Season 6 premiere, on The Tonight Show. If you need a quick refresher ahead of “Home,” you could do worse.
“Tyrion said he have a baby as a snack. The bald guy with no balls made him take it back.” I would not say no to more of this.
Also, YouTube channel Lemonade Stand put together a really funny sketch about the age-old conflict between book-readers and show-watchers. Specifically, it’s about the end of that conflict, now that Game of Thrones has caught up with A Song of Ice and Fire.
The Onion got in on this joke, too. The headline says it all: “Nation Relieved Insufferable Little ‘Game Of Thrones’ Fans Don’t Have Book To Lord Over Them This Season.” It truly is a brave new world.
h/t Vanity Fair