― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
[In 1983], the [San Francisco] press club had recruited Bill Kurtis, co-anchor of the "CBS Morning News," to deliver the keynote address for the group's annual awards dinner. As keynote speakers are wont to do, Kurtis opened his talk to the assembly of journalists with a little joke.
"I was in Nebraska yesterday and when I said I was going to San Francisco, people started talking about AIDS," Kurtis said, smiling. "Somebody said, 'What's the hardest part about having AIDS?'"
Kurtis paused for his punch line: "It's trying to convince your wife you're Haitian.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:33 (eighteen years ago) link
yes, huk, it was anchorman -- he did the narration.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
This was in San Francisco, and unsurpisingly, the crowd was largely unamused, so I'd imagine he regretted it right after the punchline.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link