The New Barbs

From New York to California every other extravert was putting his left hand in his coat pocket, jabbing the air with his right forefinger and muttering about Cuber. Even Negro Comedian Nipsey Russell was imitating Kennedy; but despite the active interest comedians are showing in the President, not all current politics jokes are about him. Random samplings:.

sb RED SKELTON : People shouldn't criticize Kennedy. He hasn't done anything.

sb JACK CARTER: J.F.K. means "Just for Kinfolk."

sb MORT SAHL: Teddy Kennedy says, "These are times that will test all the people. Are we up to the test?" And the people say, "The question is, can we get someone to take the test for us?"

sb RED SKELTON : Nixon is determined to be President even if it's one state at a time.

sb MORT SAHL: Governor Brown is trying to kill Nixon with a blunt instrument$#151;his wit.

sb DICK GREGORY: Governor Barnett said he'd go to jail before he'd integrate the University of Mississippi. If he only knew how many of us is in jail waiting for him.

sb MARK RUSSELL: Chief Justice Earl Warren had a horrible nightmare the other night--he dreamed he saw a segregated classroom where the students do nothing but pray.

sb ACTOR AT GREENWICH VILLAGE'S "PREMISE" SPEAKING AS EISENHOWER:

Well, looking back, I do wish that I had made an effort to indicate my support for the man I thought should have succeeded me. My relations with the Vice President were of a very close nature, and I think no man in that office has ever held such responsibility and fulfilled it so well. I definitely regret not having offered more moral support to uh . . . uh . . .

sb IN BOSTON CLUB CIRCLES : Here's to dear old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Kennedys always get caviar And the McCormacks only get scrod.

sb ON THE MADISON AVENUE CIRCUIT: Kennedy and Secretary Dillon are discussing the economy; they conclude that it is not too bad, but that stock prices are very low. Kennedy: "Boy, if I weren't President, I'd sure be buying stocks right now." Dillon: "Boy, if you weren't President, so would I."

sb BOBBY RAMSEN : I just read PT 109, and I say let President Kennedy run the country, but just don't sail with him.

sb MARK RUSSELL AS SARGENT SHRIVER TALKING TO PEACE CORPS RECRUITS: It's my job to inform you about the difficulties and hardships you'll meet. Often you'll be on the receiving end of many personal insults and much suffering, possibly in the form of untamed violence, rock throwing, spitting and physical attack. Then, when you leave Washington . . .

sb DEL CLOSE : Now about the neutron bomb, which is supposed to destroy people and leave buildings intact. Well, we approve of this because it goes along with the American ideal of the preservation of the home.

sb JOKE MAKING THE ROUNDS OF CHICAGO OFFICE BUILDINGS: Two birds are sitting on a wire. One says, "What do you think of President Kennedy?" And the other says, "Well, I'm for him. He's for us, isn't he?"

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