His fitness for public office is at about a negative 14, but where material for comedy is concerned, GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker inspires greatness. In his set at a New York City comedy club, Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. included material from Walker's campaign speech on Wednesday.
Walker told a crowd in McDonough, Georgia, that if a vampire in the 1985 film Fright Night can have faith against holy water in his face and a cross on his forehead, we can have faith in this country. Have faith, that was Walker’s point. I got to it in two sentences.
The person running to represent the state of Georgia in the U.S. Senate spent more than two minutes getting to the point in the kind of summary that would make a second-grade teacher cry.
It did fairly well before a comedy crowd, though.
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Repeating the early parts of Walker’s speech, Wood started weaving together the same mumbling and seemingly pointless vampire/werewolf narrative that the Senate hopeful did. “You gotta keep the faith,” the comedian started. “I was watching a movie. You ever watch a movie late at night, think the movie gon’ get better, it don't get no better, you keep watching it anyway?
“I was watching this movie, ‘Fright Night,’ freak night ... It was. a bunch of vampires in the movie. Didn't know this but vampires are pretty cool people aren't they? You all agree on that. I was watching that movie ‘Fright Night’ about the vampires. I didn’t know this. Did you know that a werewolf could kill a vampire? I didn’t know that. I found that out. I was like I want to be a werewolf. I don’t want to be a vampire no more.”
Wood got a couple chuckles here and there, but largely the audience didn’t seem to understand where he was going. And really who could until Wood delivered the punchline?
”And those are the exact words verbatim from Herschel Walker at a f—king campaign event,” the comedian said, earning him screams.
If you’re a Democrat in Georgia, however, you’re more likely to cry at the thought of Walker in the Senate.
Please help us end this man’s access to a national spotlight and elect Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock on Dec. 6. Our state has been embarrassed enough.
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