Joke Recap
BET Awards host D.L. Hughley hits and misses on Barack Obama.
Joke #1: He does look like the dude from Mad magazine. It’s so funny because he ain’t a cool dude to me. He’s like a tall Urkel dude.
Not funny! Punch line is weak. Set up creates funnier visual than punch line.
Joke #2: But for the first black president, I’ll take him. … Like, how bad a president is George Bush, when the country goes, ‘You know, we’ll try the black guy’?
Hack! We’ve heard it before.
Joke #3: And then you’ve got John McCain. And it’s so funny, because you’ve got a guy who’s half-black running against a guy who’s half-dead.”
We have a winner! This joke is funnier than the first two.
BTW, why does D.L. keep saying “it’s so funny” right before the punch line? We thought it was the audience who tells you what is funny.
