A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from February 25, 2023
“What do you call a politician with half a brain?”/“JFK.”

A politician riddle is:
     
Q: What do you call a politician with half a brain?
A: Gifted.

     
The riddle was cited in the Boston (MA) Herald American on March 28, 1981. “What do you call a politician with half a brain? JFK” (referring to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was shot in the head) was posted on Sickipedia on February 26, 2023.
 
“What do you call a drummer with half a brain?”/“Gifted” is a similar riddle.
   
       
28 March 1981, Boston (MA) Herald American, “Pols and Politics,” pg. A3, col. 1:
QUESTION: What do you call a politician with half a brain?
ANSWER: Gifted.
 
Google Groups: soc.culture.pakistan
NAWAZ SHRIEF’S INTERVIEW
NangaPir
Jun 30, 2000, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
>Q: What do you call a politician with half a brain?
>A: Gifted
 
Twitter
Emma Macdonald
@EmmaMac111
@KrisSmith13 What do you call a politician with half a brain ?
Answer : Gifted !!!!!!
2:38 PM · Feb 26, 2010
     
Twitter
Jamelia Libya K
@Miz_Tiri
What do you call a politician with half a brain? ... GIFTED
3:43 AM · Jan 31, 2012
   
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anthony molloy
@MolloyAnthony
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
Gifted.. You have to be a politician to miss my book bargains at http://anthonymolloy.weebly.com
7:59 AM · Jul 23, 2012
   
Twitter
Eyejayaitch
@eyejayaitch
What do you call a politician with half a brain? Gifted.
1:12 PM · Oct 15, 2013
   
Twitter
Red Pill
@rawnout
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
Gifted.
7:29 AM · Sep 8, 2015
 
Twitter 
Bruce Woodacre
@bruce_bwkm
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
Gifted!
9:53 AM · Apr 20, 2021
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Arkvoodle42 February 25, 2023
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
Gifted.
COMMENTS
Follicly_Endowed
I would have said JFK
 
Sickipedia
innit
26 February 2023 -Racism-American
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
JFK
     
Twitter
WSⱯꓛꓤⱯS ꓨNIꓥIꓶ
@SarcasmLiving
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
JFK
12:42 AM · Feb 26, 2023
 
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
What do you call a politician with half a brain?
JFK
5:45 PM · Feb 26, 2023

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