Joking about the president and the Speaker of the House drowning might get laughs if a late night comic says it, but how about a US senator?
At The Hill's The Washington Scene, Christina Wilkie writes, "Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) got a big laugh on Saturday at a National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat, but his joke definitely wouldn't be funny to some people."
Wilkie claims that, "According to a source who attended the meetings, Kyl told the assembled crowd a political version of the classic three-people-in-a-boat joke: 'So [President Barack] Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] and [Majority Leader] [Harry] Reid [D-Nev.] are in a row boat, and it springs a leak and starts to sink. Who gets saved?' Answer: 'The American people.'"
RAW STORY is unaware of any classic joke about three people drowning in a boat, but it's similar to the one about how one hundred lawyers drowning in the ocean would be "a good start."
Wilkie adds, "But love it or hate it, it wasn't even Kyl's own joke. The senator poached it from late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, according to a source."
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