Mike Huckabee's Beto O'Rourke 'joke' is bizarrely specific and needlessly gory
Mike Huckabee, right-wing pundit and a former Republican governor of Arkansas, has added a strange new “joke” to his Twitter repertoire ― and it got dark in a hurry.
Huckabee shared a story about Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s reputation for pranks, including supposedly putting a hunk of baby poop in a bowl and telling his wife it was avocado.
O’Rourke told the Washington Post he didn’t remember the gag but admitted that it sounded like something he would do.
The story was weird enough. But then Huckabee added his own violent spin to it:
Bob "Beto" O'Rourke has a more understanding and forgiving wife-he once put baby poop in a bowl and told his wife it was guacamole. If I did that, there would be a small hole in my forehead and a large gaping hole in back of my head--the exit wound! https://t.co/iaclY15luJ
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) March 21, 2019
Huckabee has a reputation for making bad jokes on Twitter, so much so that comic Patton Oswalt has on occasion turned them into mocking standup routines on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
True to form, Huckabee’s latest bit didn’t exactly deliver many laughs in his mentions:
what's the small hole in your forehead
— man it’s a hot zone, (@Mobute) March 21, 2019
Haha if I did that my wife there would be a hole on one side of my head (my ear) and another hole on the other side of my head (my "exit" ear lol)! Feel free to use that one if you want, Governor 🙂 And on behalf of everyone trapped in this pit with me: thanks for the laughs 🙂
— Marky poo (@markmarklittle) March 21, 2019
here we see comedy brain genius mike huckabee taking a very weird beto thing and managing to turn it into a side splitting and very graphic joke about uh shooting your spouse in the head https://t.co/CgAX4AsCWE
— kilgore trout, a crushed algorithm (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 21, 2019
Thanks for being a constant reminder of how painfully unfunny and embarrassingly lame conservative comedy is.
— Frank Garcia-Hejl (@frankgarciahejl) March 21, 2019
1. Bob is as much a nickname as Beto.
2. Your wife would shoot you in the head?— Masket or Casket 😷⚰️ (@smotus) March 21, 2019
So your marriage is like Andy Capp but even darker?
— Aaron (@BobbyBigWheel) March 21, 2019
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
