This was good to see. - Huge cheer when George said he doesn’t think a former president should comment on his successor, which, in itself is a comment. It’s a huge STFU to Carter and Clinton.
- Getting genuine laughs with his great sense of humor. They showed the clip of him trying to leave through the locked door in China. He said, “that’s the very definition of a man without an exit strategy.”
- Very sincere self-deprecating humor. He said he wanted to sing lullabies to his twin daughters. The problem was he didn’t know any. So he sang the Yale fight song. Go Bulldog Go.
He said people were shocked that he sang…. and went to Yale.
- Bush tells a weird joke that he attributes to his father.
Bush is in the hospital and the nurse walks in and he asks, “are my testicles black?” The nurse is taken aback and he asks again, “are my testicles black?” She goes to pull back the sheet and he clarifies, “Are my test results back?”
- Huge cheer from audience when they showed the clip of Bush at Ground Zero.
- Large applause when Bush says Hussein was a thug and the world is a better place without him.
- Stone silence when Bush says that Jeb is not going to run for president.
- Bush tells his son-in-law, Henry, to speed it up with providing a grandchild
- He says he once said during a speech that Laura was the greatest first lady ever. Then he realized his mother was in the audience.
- He wrapped the night up with a story about a guy walking up to him and asking if anyone ever told him that he looked like George Bush.
He said, “it happens all the time.”
The guy muttered as he walked away, “that must make you mad.”
Bush seems to be a genuinely nice man.
