Gut-Buster

 Comedy is hard, according to late character actor Edmund Gwenn. 

Comedy is not pretty, according to comedian Steve Martin.

Both of these sentiments might be taken to heart by billionaire wanna-be-funnyman Elon Musk. 

Shortly after Taylor Swift announced her support for Kamala Harris, Mister Musk tapped out this response:  “Fine Taylor… you win… I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.” He did this from the relative safety of his bunker located somewhere in the hills of West Texas as he awaited yet another exploding rocket catastrophe. If he had made this comment in front of a live audience, he might have been able to gauge the relative wit of his attempt at humor. This is a man who has fathered twelve offspring with various mothers, and he probably had no sense of just how creepy he sounded in making his offer. 

This might be a good place to note that Ms. Swift's endorsement resulted in more than four hundred thousand people registering to vote. Musk's tweet resulted in a like number throwing up in their mouths, just a little. Hillary Clinton, who has been on the wrong end of more than her share of inappropriate suggestions said that the social media post was nothing more than “another way of saying rape.”

Not a funny one. 

But, comedy is an art form, so practice makes perfect, right? So the man who has presided over Twitter losing its name and more than seventy percent of the market value of his new toy decided to give funny another try. Picking his opportunity carefully, he chose to make the following reply after someone asked  about a second attempt on the life of his pal Don-Old. It went something like this: “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” Musk replied, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” punctuating his sentence with a thinking face emoji. 

After this massive failure to "read the room," Muskie deleted his tweet, but not before the rest of the cognitive members of society held their collective nose and stuck out their collective tongue in distaste. In his own defense, he fell upon the last bastion of the incredibly bad comedian: "It was just a joke." It should be further noted that Elongated Mush endorsed the man whose claims about immigrants eating cats, while eschewing those childless women who own them. 

Get it?