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He has a certain Amelia Bedelia quality in which he takes every sarcastic quip of Jack’s literally, his reactions played for laughs that fall totally flat.

Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the product at grocery stores across the country in 1973, nearly a half-century before widespread pandemic hoarding of that important bathroom product.

He knows that the outrageous quip is entertaining and that the visually dominant media will race to it to enhance ratings.

Gaffigan's quip referenced the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape in which Trump boasted to host Billy Bush about sexually assaulting models, saying he could “grab em’ by the p***y” without consequences.

His quip that he was about “results, not ideology“ was clever.