Drew McManus rightly highlights a recent Saturday Night Live joke: "During a concert of the Virginia Symphony at the 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of Jamestown, President Bush briefly took over conducting the orchestra, which explains why the orchestra is now $4 trillion in debt."
Tom Hartley adds: "Responding to the faint applause at the end of the performance, Maestro Bush told the audience, 'It's because of people like you that classical music is dying!'"