Mike Bloomberg received a wave of criticism this week after his campaign tweeted fake quotes depicting fellow candidate Bernie Sanders as praising various dictators. Then, when it became obvious these manufactured statements weren't exactly endearing Bloomberg to the voting public as expected, his team attempted to smooth things over by tweeting, "To be clear — all of these are satire."
"If you have to explain that something is satire then you're also bad at satire," Late Night host Seth Meyers quipped during Tuesday's episode. "That's like sexting somebody and then following it up with 'this is supposed to make you horny.'"
Meyers also touched on Bloomberg's past performing in a Republican Mary Poppins parody, concluding that presidential hopefuls should maybe stop trying to be funny.
"Now's not the time for focusing on bad jokes to get to the White House," said Meyers. "It's time for focusing on getting a bad joke out of the White House."
