Both political media types and comedians mercilessly mocked the Clintons’ history of real, alleged and imagined sexual indiscretions during a Thursday-night roast of veteran Democratic strategist James Carville.
Carville was the guest of honor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where his colleagues in politics, media and comedy paid homage to his long-lasting and high-profile career in Democratic politics.
Carville was on the receiving end of a fair amount of searing material — “You look like someone who either saw a UFO or someone who was flying one,” said comedian Jeff Ross — but much of the raunch was reserved for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her former president husband Bill Clinton.
“I’m surprised you’re facing the audience,” said CNN conservative commentator S.E. Cupp of Carville, a longtime Clinton loyalist. “Because after all those years working for Bill Clinton, I thought you’d be used to looking the other way.”
Ross joked that Carville could be as successful in getting Hillary elected as he was with her husband. “If you can get Bill Clinton elected, you can probably get Hillary elected, too,” he said. “She slept with half as many women.”
“She considered herself a ‘Never Hillary,” said Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, referring to Carville’s wife Mary Matalin, a longtime Republican. “Which is ironically the same position Bill has had for 20 years.”
“Donald Trump just gave Hillary the nickname Crooked Hillary,” Triumph said in another bit. “So, I have to ask, does she really have a crooked penis?”
Republicans received their licks, too. Dennis Hastert, the former House speaker who was convicted of violating federal banking laws to pay off students he sexually abused when he was a high school wrestling coach.
“After winning New Hampshire [in 1992], Bill Clinton became the Comeback Kid,” said Triumph. “Which also happens to be one of Dennis Hastert’s favorite pickup lines.”
