VIDEOS: "60 Minutes" Kroft to Obama: Are you punch drunk?

By GottaLaff
UPDATE: I've updated the blog title, too. Here is Part One:

Watch CBS Videos Online... And here is Part Two:

I don't get to watch 60 Minutes for another hour or so out here in California. Oddly, I can't find Part One yet, but I did get my hands on Part Two. And here's an excerpt:

President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, touching off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”

His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times while discussing the perilous state of the world’s economy.

“You're sitting here. And you're— you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.

“Are you punch drunk?” Kroft says.

“No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day,” Obama says, with a laugh.

That's exactly why I chose a career in comedy: I get through the day, one laugh at a time.