“We’ve got to learn to laugh in this town," but then instead of going into the usual jokes, surprised the crowd by saying, "I had looked forward to poking fun tonight but in light of this week’s tragedy at Virginia Tech, I decided not to try to be funny.”
Yes, that would be a surprise coming after that year he thought joking about finding WMD under his office desk was appropriate in light of invading Iraq and killing scores of innocent men, women and children. I imagine the audience would have figured no tragedy was enough for him to stop tyring to be funny, or even to simply dismiss in favor of self-aggrandizement. "Now watch this drive."
Of course, the audience, judging by its response to the WMD jokes, was probably very disappointed that Butthead got a conscience this year.
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