Michael Jackson and Gov Sanford: The Elvis Connection
Q: What do Governor Mark Sanford and Elvis have in common?
A: Both of their careers died with pants around the ankles.
Some of you may have heard that Michael Jackson died yesterday, thus ending his career too. But unlike Elvis, you almost never see a troop of Michael Jackson impersonators (Although it could be argued that Jackson was a bad impersonation of himself) And if you did find one, I wouldn’t hire him for a kid’s birthday party. Well, Jackson’s death might bring the financially strapped family some money in the form of movie and TV rights. I’d like to suggest a title for a movie, MJ: The Pedo File.
I’m waiting for Congress to vote for a bail-out for the Jackson Estate. It’s been estimated that he owes between 400 to 500 million dollars to various banks. Is the Kink Of Pop too big to fail? We’ll have to wait to see. I can hear Obama saying that he doesn’t want to run the Michael Jackson Estate.
Elvis is known as The King, Jackson as The King of Pop, and Sanford was looking to the 2012 Presidential elections. He was The Man Who Would Be King. Coincidence?
So, Governor Sanford’s and Jackson’s and Elvis’ careers are dead. Sanford’s just doesn’t have the grace to go to room temperature. Instead Sanford has decided to take a page out of the Obama Version of the Democrat Play Book. He’s going on an apology tour. Politics and monkeys sure make strange bedfellows.
In related news: Michael Jackson has just been spotted at a gas station in Memphis.
Category: Political Humor Tags: Democrat Play Book, Elvis, Gov Mark Sanford humor, Humour, Mark Sanford joke, Michael Jackson, Obama Apology Tour, Political Humor
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‘Some of you may have heard that Michael Jackson died yesterday, thus ending his career too’
Hahahahahahahahaha… that didn’t stop Tupac.
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Great joke at the beginning.
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Alex – So true. This must be where the “bigger than life” saying comes in. Maybe you can answer this. All I’ve been hearing -on every channel -is that Jackson was a Popeye Con. I don’t get it.
Chris – Thanks. I always wonder how obscure some of my references are, but you tend to throw out a few memory joggers yourself.
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That joke was not that obscure unless someone didn’t know Elvis died on the crapper.
Hehe I do like to dabble in obscurity but I’ve learned there is a fine line. A good trick is layer the obscure reference under a more obvious one. Tough to do though but when you get it right, the reader can go back a second or third time and find “new” jokes.
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I wasn’t talking about Elvis. Everyone knows how he died.
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You’d be surprised. Opie and Anthony invited an Elvis impersonator on the show a bunch of years back. They wouldn’t let him on unless he did the songs in the bathroom.
Some listeners didn’t get the joke until they explained the reason.
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I personally think the connection is much deeper. Just like Elvis worked for the CIA, my guess is because of his shockingly adept ability to create finantial windfalls from absolutely no effort or ability, MJ is sitting at a desk in Treasury right now directing turbo timmy how to save the nation.