Kennedy funnier than Boehner?

That's according to The Hill newspaper's take on Tuesday night's dinner:

But Kennedy stole the show, cracking jokes about his good friend Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and the presidential aspirations of many of his colleagues. The senator’s best dig, however, was aimed directly at Boehner.

Kennedy said he recently visited Boehner when he was on the House side and noticed that the Ohio legislator was working on a jigsaw puzzle. Six months later, Kennedy stopped by Boehner’s office again — and Boehner was still working on putting the puzzle together.

“John, that’s a long time to be working on a puzzle,” Kennedy said.

“No, it’s not,” Boehner supposedly replied. “Right here on the side of the box it says three to five years.”

The Houston Chronicle's Washington Notebook also took a dig at House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, citing the same Sen. Ted Kennedy joke!

But Kennedy settled the score with a professional-grade joke-writer's tale about walking over to Boehner's office in the House one day to find him working on a jigsaw puzzle — and then returning months later to find Boehner still assembling the same puzzle. Kennedy said Boehner told him to look at the box: "It says three to six years."

Come on. Was the jigsaw puzzle joke really THAT funny?