A Brief Reminder That Bernie Sanders Is A Total Ham

And, sometimes, those people are right. Sanders is not much of a jokester in speeches. For example, this is basically the only laugh line in a standard Sanders stump:

"My Republican colleagues talk a lot about quote-unquote 'family values,'" Sanders will often say.

This leads to some "harrumph"-style laughter from Sanders' mostly-liberal, mostly eye-roll-at-Republicans-talking-about-family-values crowd. Sanders does not build on the laugh however, making things pretty serious again pretty quick.

"What they mean is opposition to a woman's right to choose, opposition to women getting contraception and strong opposition to gay rights," he said at one Iowa stop in June, in keeping with the normal way he delivers a speech. "And on all of those issues I strongly disagree."

Sometimes he makes a self-deprecating joke about his hair, saying some people wrote him off as a fringe candidate with "the wild hair." He doesn't do it a lot, and he's best known for refusing to engage when reporters try to talk hair with him.

But well before he submitted himself to the indignity that is trying to convince Americans to back your presidential aspirations, Sanders was a ham.