Calling himself a seahorse dad – as in seahorses it is the male that gives birth – Bennett, who is due on November 5 and is recording his pregnancy on Instagram, has stopped the hormone treatment he began in the summer of 2014, to start a family.

In a state that offers festival seating on death row, there is only one capital offense for the Favorite Son Humor Writer: first-degree unfunniness.

Somebody clearly needed to strap on a pair and say what needed to be said. Forget the flowery words and sensitivity training.

'I mean what makes you think he's a poofdah, you narg?' 'I 'aven't got where I am today wivout bein' able to spot a poofdah when I see one. Besides, I used to listen to 'im on the phone talkin' to 'is poofdah friends.