Teddy's Humor

Jules Crittendon offers this insight into things that Ted Kennedy found funny:

Meanwhile, listening to ”Reflections on Sen. Kennedy … Lion of the Senate” on the Diane Rehm Show on the drive home last night, I was deeply moved to hear Newsweek’s Ed Klein tell guest host Katty Kay about Kennedy’s love of humor. How the late senator loved to hear and tell Chappaquiddick jokes, and was always eager to know if anyone had heard any new ones. Not that Kennedy lacked remorse, Klein quickly added, seeming to intuit that my jaw and perhaps those of other listeners had just hit the floorboards. I gather it was a self-deprecating manuever on Kennedy’s part, exercised with the famous Kennedy charm, though it sounds like one of those “I guess you had to have been there” things.

In the spirit of Kennedy's humor, let me rerun this item that was offered by a radio host a day or so after Kennedy's cancer diagnosis:

Reporter: Senator Kennedy, given the news about your health, what are your plans concerning running again for office in Massachusetts?

Kennedy: Well, right now I'm not sure. I'll just have to drive off that bridge when I come to it.

I'm sure somewhere Teddy is smiling.