Nobel Prize Committee Wins Obama Satire Award

New Dave and Buster's token pays tribute to this year's Satire Prize winner

In a stunning move, the Obama Satire Prize Committee has awarded its prestigious Satire Prize to the Nobel Prize Committee.

Siting the Committee's "consistent ability to cause people to shake their heads and wonder how good the pot is in Noway," committee members announced the designation in a release on Friday. The award is given to individuals or groups who have done more to promote good satire about the Obama presidency.

Sven Waring, who leads the committee, said the Nobel Prize Committee earned the prize based on their "multilateral, multinational, multivibrational, multigrain" approach to producing satirical situations, not just in the Obama administration, but beyond.

"No one has done more for improving the climate of Obama satire than the Nobel Prize committee," said Waring. "They have produced more satire in the past two days than many committees have produced in their entire history."

"Maybe the Academy Awards committee," Waring added. "Oh. And the MTV video award ceremony. When Kanye's there."

The prize money--40 tokens at Dave and Busters--will be shared by the five committee members.

Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee, said he plans to use his share of tokens on "the race car game." He will also use several tokens for "skeet ball," in hopes of winning prize tickets that he'll use to purchase more vowels in his first name.

"I always wanted an 'a' between the 'b' and the 'j', I'm not quite sure what happened there," said Jagland. "And I'd like an 'i', too, someday."

"Yeah. As if. Look, the Nobel Prize committee doesn't deserve it," said Van Johnson, who heads up the Sarcasm Prize Committee. "Shouldn't they give it to the Olympic Site Selection Committee?"

Michael Moore, who is worth an estimated $50 million and recently completed a movie that assails capitalism, is said to be a front runner for this year's Prize in Irony, called the "Alfie." The irony prize pays tribute to Alfred E. Nobel who invented dynamite and then came up with the whole peace prize thing.

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