Last Tyrant Standing!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on September 25th, 2007

From a Reuters account of the speech by Holocaust-denier and budding standup comic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, comes the following priceless nugget:

When Ahmadinejad, speaking in Farsi, actually tried to crack a joke, it drew no laughter, although maybe the nuance was lost in translation.

“Let me tell a joke here,” Ahmadinejad said. “I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, or testing them, making them, politically they are backward, retarded.”

The crowd seemed uncertain how to react. Some applauded that pacifist sentiment, others seemed befuddled by the insensitive use of the word retarded.

Emphasis ours.

The pint-sized terror supporter violated Rule Number 3 of Kip Addotta‘s three rules of joke telling:

1. Commit to the joke

2. Go THROUGH the joke

3. Never ask permission to tell the joke

Of course, he’s working the room at Columbia, so his biggest error is using the word “retarded.” The Holocaust denial, the support of terrorism, the execution of homosexuals– it all takes a back seat to the use of an insensitive word like retarded. Rookie!

If he wanted to end on a big laugh, he should have knocked off the comedy after he claimed that there is no homosexuality in Iran!

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