The President’s Humor, Highlighted | The West Wing

[@Wackjacko1992]

“How you doing there joey, gippy” brilliant absolutely brilliant

[@WPPatriot]

"I think we'd lose. - Not in New Jersey" Man, I fucking love this show 😂

[@illtree]

"you get my support the same way i get yours, when i agree with you or don't care enough about what you are saying" is a great line

[@candacerushing6882]

People don’t think of The West Wing as a comedy, but it was so funny! The humor was often dry and subtle- the best kind. Aaron Sorkin is a genius.

[@wsb4586]

@@candacerushing6882 Those throwaway lines are among the best, agreed. I miss that quality writing too.

[@kevmorris3000]

The Thanksgiving episodes with the turkeys and the Butterball hotline were hilarious!

[@douglassauvageau7262]

I LOVE this series. I am disturbed that we STILL struggle with the same issues.

[@sarahtan8045]

the way he says "hmm?" in answer to abby gets me every time. that's the kind of softness, kindness, understanding, and love everyone needs in their life.

[@CarolBushbergRealEstateIthaca]

I love the moment where Ron Butterfield turns his attention from President Bartlett to President Santos.

[@Kailaa3]

It was subtle, but so powerful. A fantastic moment.

[@NickdeVera]

anyone else watching west wing clips after the 2024 trump win

[@Yowzoe]

c'est que c'est

[@apotterhead1]

My coping mechanism: binge West Wing over and over again and imagine I am living in a Bartley presidency

[@ronhoppner]

It helps me sleep.

[@lindam1980]

​@@apotterhead1 exactly! It would be even better if they'd produce a reboot. They could start it off with President Seaborn's first inaugural address

[@pattihanson7921]

Wishful thinking

[@AM-ow3gn]

23:00 the Admiral's comment about mimes is my favorite type of humor from this show. In passing, off the cuff, and the other characters barely acknowledge it because 1) they are professionals and 2) it is such a casual part of existing in the West Wing. I personally think that was a big contributor to the warmth and ensemble feel of the show: there is so much subtext in that approach to humor. I also think Admiral Fitzwallace got the best of those lines. "Bouncy and more manageable" comes to mind...

[@douglassauvageau7262]

John Amos was equally impactful as James Earl Jones. R-E-S-P-E-C-T ! x2

[@carol-annecollins]

Omg yes! I love that exchange about the hair with Fitz it’s great 😂

[@caleighwong1493]

oh I missed those 7 years of fun, wit and hope.

[@johnropars1447]

I am. Dreaming of what the dream could be. And it’s probably never coming back.

[@MJB20233]

When you wish drama was a true reflection of American values. Unlike today. A sad day for the world.

[@WZD10016]

Another MSNBC fan🫵boy Duped by Media propaganda and mendacity. Stop clutching your pearls.

[@wsb4586]

I like Mia Farrow just fine, she's a very good actor. But I'm glad Sheen was voted down after lobbying for her to play Dr Bartlet, Channing nailed the role.

[@LillikoiSeed]

She did, and I can’t imagine anyone else in the role either.

[@user-eb6xc3fq2m]

Mia Farrow? No way 😮

[@catrionacolville2192]

Only Stockard Channing could get away with "Game on boyfriend".

[@wsb4586]

@@user-eb6xc3fq2m I'm sure Farrow would have carried the role, but Channing *flew* with it. 🤩

[@johnhaney4721]

I like this show a lot but the two characters I really didn't like were Abby & Sam, probably because I've never liked Channing or Lowe. I know... everyone is gonna yell at me... but I always thought they were low-tier, B-movie type actors.

[@Dirtmodmaniac]

An absolutely wonderfully written show !!!

[@carlosvillarreal1243]

Where was the “Toby’s a good name” scene when Bartlet walks in on a staff meeting high on Percocet?

[@JonBlondell]

The gavel. Perfect.

[@wsb4586]

Thanks much. I love these and this peerless diamond of a show.

[@thosi1391]

Thank you for putting this together!

[@bradypostma5167]

An IT guy named Macintosh is just ironic. That's like a mechanic whose last name is Ford, or a politician whose name is Governor.

[@TheEldarGuy]

I'd like a series set years later, Sam is finally making his run for President. Thing is, in the modern era, if you show an intelligent and capable Republican party, they'd be accused of insulting the current mob; if the Republicans were shown as dim witted and bombastic, they'd be shut down for showing the current Mob. I like to think of the West Wing universe as one that is filled with articulation and educated people. We've been proven that being educated and informed is another way of being called elitist and out of touch.

[@NancyScrivens]

I love the West Wing. I have been depressed since the election. I pray for everyone.

[@JeanLouisSlezak]

Ours days that’s a sci-fi show. A smart honest and decent president.

[@sethtenrec]

Missed the scene where CJ gets an egg to stand on end, but nobody’s around to see it

[@hibob418]

I don’t know if it’s in this compilation or not, but I always loved the Ainsley Hayes bit, “…they won’t let me smoke in here, but she can pee in Leo’s closet.”

[@carol-annecollins]

My family quotes that all the time 😂

[@joelmontague5004]

Legitimately my favorite line of the series 😂

[@gratler]

11:27 jesus these talking during walking scene oners are so insane. i wonder how they shoot that

[@lekoman]

Very carefully.

[@jarvis72]

By far the best President of any country.

[@Kennardy]

Was there ever a better show on TV other than maybe…MASH?

[@thephantomeagle2]

I remember that the debate camp, likely at Camp David was interrupted by the note that Leo handed him, I just can't remember what it was.

[@annpage7676]

If only the US had a Bartlett!!

[@yarsmythe]

Although there were episodes that divided us politically, I believe we can agree this show was one of the best written, produced, directed, and performed in our time.

[@kathyrae1140]

I loved this show---still do

[@Sonal.09]

How did the scene from "Tomorrow" highlight President's humour?

[@wrwosster89076]

Very fair question 😐

[@toddboughn5168]

Was waiting for the punchline myself.

[@sethbarkley8645]

I would still love to know what kind of law HR 437 was. It had implications for sovereign immunity, civil jury trials, search and seizure AND the quartering of soldiers in private homes?

[@heddalee]

@@sethbarkley8645 I ate some Frosted Flakes

[@Sonal.09]

The editor who cuts these clips for KZbin doesn't know where to cut clips, also he doesn't know what "funny" means. How is Toby's conversation with Will & senator about sanctity of marriage funny? Or Toby's conversation with CJ about staff psychological profile post shooting? Abby & CJ's talk about MS? And if you are making a highlight package of President's humor why are these conversations part of it to begin with?

[@Dryghtendanitsu]

P sure it's being butchered by an AI.

[@WolfRamAndHart]

A lot were at least somewhat comedic. There's a weird way that Sorkin writes, where it's "amusing" that people in those positions do kind of talk that way...with explaining how a domino effect in committee chairs works. Perhaps the Senator discussion, was to fill out the conversation, and was just included. Most were at least good and witty dialogue, though perhaps not funny, as it's not a comedy.

[@lisakaufman7366]

I wish they had anther season with the new president.

[@jamesJurkiewicz-tk9uc]

If only he was going to be our next president

[@GlobalCitizen_y2k]

13:08 'more of a Federalist than an ideologue' This burns in 2024.

[@votemonty1815]

"Bartlet the Inert" ~Sen. Howard Stackhouse

[@Shamino1]

Whoever is running this channel only seems to have 3 hours of westwing they can show, and just keep reuploading the same clips with different names. Half of these clips have nothing to do with Bartlet's sarcasm.

[@Paul_Harper]

Yeah. Then when someone (ie me) puts together a nicely edited video with all of Lord John Marbury's clips, they object, whining about copyright...

[@paulc7486]

You should definitely start a better channel

[@ReaverLordTonus]

@4:20, it's hard to watch this scene knowing how the new writers in later seasons would screw Toby over. One of the things that made this show great was that Bartlett and his staff were like a family, perhaps at times dysfunctional but a family nonetheless. Injecting schisms and scandals to tear them apart is not something you do after years of cohesion purely for the sake of drama.

[@jpjordan90]

Its not that hard. People's indignation at the shuttle leak storyline is really over the top.

[@jimg5669]

Ex-NASA contractor here so I'm not sure what either of your two arguments are, but I disagree with both of your premises.

[@rmmyt]

Can we give a moment of TV silence to brave Molly O'Conner ( 2:58 )? She was agent who was ambushed and killed during Zoey's kidnapping in S4E22. Thank you for your service, Miss O'Conner.

[@TheNyroadrage]

@21:40 Am I wrong or does Ron Butterfield say "Attack, Randy" when it's Wesley attacking Molly

[@lisasloane6456]

It’s taken me forever to figure this out. Wesley moves to attack Randy, as if she’s Zoe. Molly steps in and protects her by taking Wesley down “like a bag of potato chips “.

[@heddalee]

A quibble, but the notion that the Port of Portland handles 700 million dollars worth of cargo a day is beyond ludicrous.

[@lekoman]

This show was chockablock with things like this you can quibble with. They get aviation stuff wrong all the time, for instance. There’s an episode where the pilot of Air Force One says they’re two miles short of the runway and starting their descent. You’d do that like 100 miles out, not two miles off the end of the runway.

[@heddalee]

@lekoman Yea. The way the assassination played out was absurdly unrealistic (and was meant to disorient us), and even Josh's PTSD is a story well told, with a framework within the show that makes no sense.

[@rmmyt]

Hmm...assuming that he is talking about Portland, OR...and assuming that the year he said this was 2003...and assuming that the port grossed about as much in 2003 as they did in 2014 (which is the oldest budget numbers I can find), then the port grossed about $216 million. So yeah, that $700 million seems a bit high. But I DID have to make a lot of assumptions.

[@heddalee]

@@rmmyt Portland's port is way too small for 700m a day. I believe that's the daily traffic for the US's largest port, LA.

[@rmmyt]

@@heddalee I think i need to correct myself. When Bartlett said "they are going to loose $700 million a day" I interpreted that to refer to port revenue, which like you said is nowhere close. But if it was supposed to mean the value of goods that pass thru then maybe that might be closer to accuracy? I can't find traffic values for Portland, but Port of LA cargo value was $292 billion in 2022 so...divide that into a daily then adjust for year 2003...ugh, $466 million?

[@crazyjacobins305]

5:05, "Make me proud", WHY?

[@davidkurtzbach7589]

I have watched this show so many times and have never figured out what "torrential rain in Portland" means. Help please

[@MelDaltonMusic]

I came into the comments to ask the same. 😂

[@aaforringer]

Yes I want to know why the rains changed the timetable.

[@jimg5669]

What? It was terrorist code.for an attack somewhere in the PNW. What's not to understand?

[@tunneloflight]

It means it is winter and its raining. It is the Pacific Northwest. I do not know what they meant it to mean. In the Pacific Northwest it begins raining on Halloween and it stops sometime in May.

[@MelDaltonMusic]

@@tunneloflight Yeah, the question is what they specifically meant by it, not why it's raining in the PNW. Those of us who grew up there know all about it! LOL

[@doberski6855]

Much as I enjoy that the video clip has been extended from the three minute range. At thirty-six minutes, why don't you just air a whole episode? Maybe finding a little middle ground length is in order here.👍😂 These were some great moments from the series!

[@alansilver4419]

Container ships lose containers *all the time*. No one would put extra energy into a single lost container. Also, Zoe is the worst.

[@SarahRenz59]

I surmise the cargo was sensitive somehow; eg, parts for military weaponry or nuclear reactors.

[@heddalee]

@@SarahRenz59 The scene would've benefitted from making a gesture in that direction (though I suppose his "now I get why you're telling me this" nods to it.

[@heddalee]

That said, why would the US government ship that stuff on a commercial cargo boat, *and* fail to keep track of it? The military has its own cargo ships.

[@cybergeek11235]

I miss when this wasn't as unreachable a goal as it is now.

[@michman2]

Wow. I forgot Kate Moss was in this show.

[@mdavidmullins]

I miss the days when intelligence was on the agenda.

[@_PJW_]

25:39 : he bought a house without involving his wife in the decision?! 😲🤦

[@Legba85]

Toby was trying to get back together with his ex wife because she was pregnant and he wanted to be in his kids’ lives. I’d call that a justifiable reason.

[@kadebass6187]

A certain Norse god is in here hmmm

[@pault1964]

They lie was he was suffering from MS, l have MS losing your train of thought and forgetting obvious words and balance it’s is pain and difficult to have an adult conversation

[@martykerns3802]

I am sorry for your situation but not all people with MS have difficulty with conversations. Some do, but not all.

[@pault1964]

And occasionally balance

[@JonBlondell]

Donna was so brilliant, Josh was an idiot.

[@wrwosster89076]

Donna - agree ✅ Josh - completely disagree ❌

[@ZHL242]

doesn't work

[@KevinN-df8eo]

Our dry humor here in the UK can often be missed by some Americans but I am completely baffled about how most of this can be called comedic?? If you are all rolling in the aisles, I apologise.

[@Master_WannaBe_]

I think the last time we cared about the opinions of the English was before we decided to see if the salt water of Boston Harbor mixed well with the tea leaves of English penny pinchers.

[@jimg5669]

You seem to be confused. Your "dry wit" is just so. It is witty. Your humo(u)r is , well... humorous. But wit and humor are not synonymous. Nor are Brit and Septic "humor"! 😛

[@jimgregory6185]

Classic example of how liberals dialog. Pathetic.

[@nhjhbmkuy7173]

Bro is angry at a tv show, grass deficiency

[@choprjock]

While trump's dialog has the equivalency of an 8th grade bully.

[@hibob418]

Yeah. All those multi-syllable words. I can see why it’s so threatening to you. Some of these episodes have numbers in them too.

[@imcallingjapan2178]

Dialogue has an e, and isn't an active verb. No suprise to see right wingers struggle with basic English.

[@casmatt99]

Dumb troll is dumb