Bob Marley gets a good laugh at just about anything he can but apparently Budweiser suits don’t appreciate a good frothy ribald chuckle.
Marley, who tours the country telling jokes about the Maine way of life, made a quick side trip Sept. 8 to St. Louis to visit his daughter along the way to one of his shows.
With some time to kill, he stopped at the Budweiser plant to – among other things – laugh at a Clydesdale’s endowment…
Of course! He’s Bob Marley, whose humor always includes sophomoric jokes about the human anatomy. (And this time, naturally, he just had to make fun of a horse’s d***.)
With a silly adolescent grin on his face and raising his eyebrows, the 58-year-old Marley was videoing one of the company’s famed Clydesdale horses for his Facebook audience when he put up a screen title saying “Warning: Horse Dink.”
Within minutes, Marley was evicted from the tour group he was with.
“That’s the end of the tour my friends,” he said, “well, actually the tour is still going on, but because I can’t follow the rules and I don’t listen to instructions and perhaps I wandered away from the group to do some videos for you guys maybe our tour guide, Steve, thought I was stealing company secrets, and I was removed from the group, and now I’m sitting in Budweiser jail waiting for the rest of my family to come out.”
Besides making fun of the Clydesdale’s body parts, “Uncle Bobby,” as a humorously refers to himself in the third person, took his fans along for a tour of the bottling plant.
“This is where they bottle all the Budweisers, all the different beer that Budweiser makes, 1,300 bottles a minute, 16,000,000 bottles a day,” Uncle Bobby explained.
Hard to say whether it was Marley’s filming of – and poking fun at – the untouchable Clydesdales or the bottling plant itself that made the Budweiser officials mad, but it may be a distinction without a difference.
Marley then raised a cup of beer to the camera and saluted his audience with his telltale farewell saying “I love you all. Have a great day.”
Marley, who grew up in Bangor, attended the University of Maine at Farmington, where he realized he wanted to pursue comedy as his career.
He’s done well for himself – by doing just that, laughing at himself.
Marley has been on all the major network talk shows in his funny career.
He even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records at one point – 15 years ago this month – with the longest continuous stand-up routine.
Marley beat the record held by Lindsay Webb from Australia, completing 40 hours of comedy, the first 17 hours and 14 minutes without any repetition of material.
His record was broken three years later by David Scott, with a time of 40 hours and 8 minutes.
But there’s always tomorrow for Uncle Bobby.
