Let's go to the tweet (this one got ?uestlove's re-tweet.)
https://twitter.com/tomhayes_sd/status/566268351949713408

It's a low joke with a high concept. Delivered by a man behind a couch working a dog puppet -- who is an insult comic from the 1950's and works blue -- and that has prepared fake magazine covers with embarrassing/insulting names.

The joke is the there is a magazine/catalogue (note the extra "ue" denoting a fanciness) that sells toupees for your pubic hair.

?uestlove is the cover model - and it reads "Questlove shows off this Spring's hottest styles"

There's like 5 ways this jokes works.

1)Triumph is ostensibly letting Jack McBreyer be the center of attention by not talking. Instead he's drawing more attention to himself.

2)This is the third in a series (the third item in the list is always the "topper") that was preceeded with Jimmy on a magazine called "Could Have Banged Nicole Kidman Weekly" and Higgins on the cover of "Dead Weight Quarterly."

3)The idea of someone having to wear a wig on their pubic hair region is funny because it's not funny. It's a low joke.

4)To make the low joke even lower he got a stock photo of ?uest and made a ridiculous cover - one that any person would probably be ashamed to be on. Even if ?uest wore a Merkin he'd likely not agree to appear on the cover of Pubic Toupee Catalogue, Feb 2015. This makes it even a higher concept.

5)The ad for Allegiance on the back cover adds a little more spice to it. It's clearly just an Entertainment Weekly magazine with a cover pasted on - or it's a magazine for people who lack pubic hair that NBC bought the back cover to promote a new show.

5)He's doing it to people IN THE ROOM - so it's even more over the top.


There's no racial component - if he swapped Higgins on that cover and ?uest on the other it would still work on the level - except fat people would be like "Why he gotta put the fat guy on Dead Week Quarterly - that's "fattist."

It's not "Look at this guy's hair - it has to be pubic hair because he's black and black people's hair is pubic hair." Not at all.That's just stupid.

If you think that then you are wrong.

Low joke. Purposely offensive. Hack-ey as hell. High concept. Comedy gold.