Foreplay joke
During his 1988 Monologue Carson makes a Foreplay joke. It struck me that the word Foreplay is seldom used these days, and seldomer use on network television, but Carson sneaks it in during a joke about Mike Dukakis.
just a little late, he's like the guy who decides to start foreplay with his wife, and she's already in the shower
First off, Carson makes sure the audience and everybody else knows that the guy in the joke may be having sex but he is damn sure having sex with his own wife, nothing tawdry about it, just some nondescript guy having foreplay at home. He also says the part about her being already in the shower- that was probably the hardest part of the joke to frame, how to imply to the audience that the guy in question has already had sex and then is starting the foreplay. Just shows how prudish the country is and was, a thousand safeguards have to be built into a joke about foreplay. Also is it standard operating procedure for a women to shower after sex, or is this a Johny Carson thing, that after sex he took a shower. share