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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney officially announced (via Twitter, no less) on Monday what everybody knew already: He’s running for president in 2012. The news hardly came as a surprise, which may be why so many late-night comedians appeared to have their Romney joke-a-tron warmed up and ready to go Tuesday night.

Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart each presented variations on the same theme -- namely, that Romney is good-looking, relatively moderate and therefore doomed to lose the Republican primary.

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Let’s parse the differences -- shall we?:

1. On ‘The Daily Show,’ Stewart opted to contrast Romney’s centrist, business-friendly image with that of the decidedly less mainstream figures in his party. Compared with the Republican field so far, populated by characters like Donald Trump and Michele Bachmann -- or, as Stewart calls them, ‘crazies’ -- Romney is handsome but not much fun. Here’s Stewart’s take on ‘Captain Buzzkill’:

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2. O’Brien took a simpler, sillier approach, true to his geeky but apolitical sense of humor. ‘I feel like he’s trying to run on his good looks,’ O’Brien said before playing a heavily edited version of Romney’s YouTube announcement, set to a sultry disco beat:

3. Finally, Colbert expressed concern that Romney, who ‘looks like the kind of bold leader you’d see on a box of Centrum Silver,’ has failed to nail down the nomination a mere 16 months before the 2012 Republican Convention. ‘Mike Huckabee is bearing down on Romney like a Tyrannosaurus rex bearing down on Adam and Eve,’ he said. ‘But Huckabee is neck and neck with one very classy candidate.’

Surely, you’ll never guess whom he was referring to:

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-- Meredith Blake

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