--- title: Mitt Romney Tells an Obama Joke description: At President Obama's expense, obviously canonical: https://time.com/3501919/mitt-romney-joke-obama/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-13T14:45:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:44:38.573Z article:section: Politics og:title: Mitt Romney Tells an Obama Joke og:description: At President Obama's expense, obviously og:url: https://time.com/3501919/mitt-romney-joke-obama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mitt Romney Tells an Obama Joke twitter:description: At President Obama's expense, obviously twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hey, Mitt Romney Cracked a Good Joke by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Oct 13, 2014 2:45 PM UTC by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Oct 13, 2014 2:45 PM UTC As the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, Mitt Romney was robotic, wooden, buttoned-up, stiff—take your pick of adjective. But despite the public perception, Romney does have a lighter side—see the Netflix documentary [_Mitt_](http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70296733) for proof—and he can actually be pretty funny, as he proved again on Sunday at a campaign event for Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst. Romney’s actually-quite-decent joke, which came at the expense of his former adversary President Barack Obama, is related below. You can also watch it above, courtesy of conservative outlet the Washington _Free Beacon_. --- > “” --- For those of you that appreciate Romney’s humor, or more likely still aren’t quite convinced that he can be funny, read [this piece by the _Atlantic_‘s Molly Ball](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/mitt-romneys-humor-an-appreciation/254282/) or check out this [BuzzFeed listicle](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppinsrosiegray/14-mitt-romney-jokes-that-are-actually-pretty-funn-5m7r#3ijwvdi). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3501919/mitt-romney-joke-obama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3501919/mitt-romney-joke-obama/"},"headline":"Hey, Mitt Romney Cracked a Good Joke","datePublished":"2014-10-13T14:45:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:44:38.573Z","description":"At President Obama's expense, obviously","url":"https://time.com/3501919/mitt-romney-joke-obama/","keywords":["mitt romney"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/mitt-romney/","name":"mitt romney"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3501919/mitt-romney-joke-obama/","name":"Hey, Mitt Romney Cracked a Good Joke"}}]}] ```