I decided to jest let it go MoToR. As you put it so well, he is "trying to interject humor in to what has turned into the 'let me see how stupid I can sound today' show."
His wife jest gave him 25 cents so he could buy a sense of humor a couple weeks ago: it DOES take time to get used to one and figure out how it works...I'm deciding between a smirk and pained grin...smirk it is!
