A comedian knows a dud when he smells one.
On Thursday’s “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” guest Billy Crystal recounted a hilarious moment when he and his friend and fellow Democrat, Robin Williams, realized the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was a stinker.
Wet-blanket Dukakis went on to lose the election to George H.W. Bush. But Williams called the loss long before, when he realized the Democrat had a stick up his “Uranus.”
Video and transcript, via NewsBusters, is below.
BILLY CRYSTAL: And we were in Boston, it was 1988, it was like the second Comic Relief. And we’re at the state building with Michael Dukakis, who was the Democratic nominee to run against George Bush Sr. Right? And Mr. Dukakis was a very genteel, not a large man, very quiet, professor – professorial type guy.
JIMMY FALLON: Yeah.
CRYSTAL: And very conservative. And, and we made our speeches and we were funny. Whoopi, Robin and I were, you know, pretty funny. And then Mr. Dukakis said something about Robin being out in the universe. Up there, you know, right near Uranus. Well that’s-
[audience laughter]
FALLON: Oh no! Does he know who he’s playing with?!
CRYSTAL: That’s all, that’s all he had to hear. So, he went off on “Your anus, my anus, our anuses! Oh my God, whose anus is it? Oh my!” And it – and Dukakis looked at him and just went “This isn’t HBO.”
FALLON: Whoa.
CRYSTAL: So he continued the speech and Robin stands next to me. And as Dukakis is droning on, Robin says “No way this mother [bleep] wins.”
