--- title: Watch President Obama Tell a Crying Baby, 'No More Bad Jokes' description: President Obama took time to reassure a young audience member that he would lay off the corny jokes for the rest of his speech. canonical: https://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-06T20:24:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:24.956Z og:title: Watch President Obama Reassure a Baby He Won't Tell Bad Jokes og:description: Even POTUS has jokes og:url: https://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/ 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: Watch President Obama Reassure a Baby He Won't Tell Bad Jokes twitter:description: Even POTUS has jokes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch President Obama Promise a Crying Baby He Won't Tell Anymore Bad Dad Jokes > Sponsored content. 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As both POTUS and the dad-in-chief, it’s safe to say that [he’s said more than his fair share of corny jokes](http://time.com/4313643/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2016-president-obama-video/) (dad jokes, if you will), but it turns out that not all of his audience members are amused. While POTUS congratulated the Pittsburgh Penguins on their Stanley Cup win during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday, a crying baby was less than impressed with his jokes about Phil Kessel and the Blackhawks. As the baby continued to wail, Obama reassured his youngest audience member that there would be no more cheesy humor from him. “Don’t worry. I don’t have any more bad jokes,” he said. “These are so corny, I know.” Watch the entire escapade go down below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama Promise a Crying Baby He Won't Tell Anymore Bad Dad Jokes","datePublished":"2016-10-06T20:24:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:24.956Z","description":"Even POTUS has jokes","url":"https://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Barack Obama","politics","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4521755/president-obama-crying-baby-bad-jokes/","name":"Watch President Obama Promise a Crying Baby He Won't Tell Anymore Bad Dad Jokes"}}]}] ```