Rev. Al Sharpton took on Fox News during a comedy roast in Washington, D.C., recalling the times he was a guest of the cable channel and imagining what it would have been like if he were employed there instead of MSNBC.
“It’s better than Fox,” Sharpton said of his own weekend show. “Because over there, they’d make me drink from a separate water fountain.”
The longtime activist took another dig at Fox and conservative commentator S.E. Cupp of CNN, who also attended the roast.
“Both of us have appeared on Fox,” Sharpton said of Cupp. “But they treat us a little differently. They send a car for her. They ask me to drive it.”
He said he referred to those occasions as “driving Ms. Crazy.”
The roast was hosted Thursday night at the Kennedy Center as an homage to veteran Democratic strategist James Carville.
Sharpton made several other race jokes throughout his routine. He said after sitting through much of the evening, which was back-to-back raunch and vulgarity, he wondered to himself, “This is what white folks do? We actually marched to be a part of this?”
He recalled a time that Carville, known for his frenetic South Louisiana accent, invited him to stay at a farm he owns in Virginia.
“Imagine a self described ‘cracker’ in a seer sucker suit inviting a known black activist to his farm in Virginia,” Sharpton said. “What could go wrong?”
