Tiffany Haddish Celebrates DUI Anniversary with DUI Jokes
Driving under the influence continues to be comedy fodder for Tiffany Haddish, who celebrated the one-year anniversary of her 2023 holiday DUI arrest with a stand-up set riffing on the episode. Bottoms up, everybody!
Haddish returned to the scene of the crime, according to Page Six, performing at the Comedy Store just as she did before her Thanksgiving arrest last year. In the age-old tradition of turning personal strife into stand-up material, Haddish rehashed the incident for the comedy crowd.
“I’m so happy to see all of y’all. I’m not in jail tonight, and I will not be tomorrow. I promise you!” she said, as seen in a video obtained by TMZ. “But I mean, if you’re gonna go to jail, Beverly Hills is the place to be. There is nothing like the Beverly Hills Police Station. It is niiice, OK?”
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It wasn’t so funny last year when police arrested Haddish after she allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel of her car several hours after a Thanksgiving set at the Laugh Factory. That’s virtually a carbon copy of her 2022 DUI arrest in Atlanta, where once again she was snoozing behind the wheel of her car in the wee hours.
Note to Haddish: If you have to poke fun at your DUI arrests, maybe get some new material? Her Laugh Factory jokes were virtually identical to the ones she told Jimmy Kimmel in June:
“I'm gonna tell you right now, if I ever commit a crime ever in life, if I decide to commit one, I'm only doing it in Beverly Hills. I'm sorry, Beverly Hills, I got to tell them! Most beautiful police station I ever been in my life.”
She also returned to the Laugh Factory last November immediately after the arrest to crack wise. “I prayed to God to send me a man with a job, preferably in a uniform,” she joked. “God answered my prayers.”
She recycled that joke as well, telling Jimmy Fallon last January that she had been “praying to God to send me a new man. A good man. And God went ahead and sent me four — in uniform.” Cue Fallon bursting into hysterics.
Say what you will about DUI jokes — and the commenters on Page Six had plenty to say — Haddish claims to have cleaned up her act. Her newfound sobriety has made her meaner, she said last April. “When I drank, there was a filter, okay?” she said. “Because I would think really mean things, and want to say really mean things, but I just told myself not to say them. Now I say the shit.”
And more often than not, she says that shit twice.
