The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for April 07, 2019
April 06, 2019
April 08, 2019
Transcript:
Caesar: I've decided that the music industry doesn't offer much security, so I'm working on comedy as a backup. Check this out...your momma is so dumb, she set the house on fire using the CD burner. Huey: Eh...it's okay... Caesar: Okay?! That was my best joke! Huey: It didn't challenge me. I like my comedy to expose the folly of the world we live in. We need more comedians using humor to question the status quo. Guys who aren't afraid to get political Richard Pryor. Dick Gregory, George Carlin, Chris Rock - that kind of thing. Caesar: John Ashcroft's momma is so dumb, she set the house on fire using the CD burner. Huey: Now that's funny...
That joke wouldn’t work today – a joke about President Dumpy using a CD burner would fall flat. No one is going to believe that Dumpy could possibly figure out how to use a CD burner in the first place. It’s like a joke about a half-witted lemur trying to make a sandwich … it’s just too unbelievable to have the groundwork to be funny.