‘You guys aren’t sure how to react to the voice’ said Michael Kosta. Michael Kosta, the recurring host of The Daily Show, was met with an awkward response after he attempted to do an impersonation of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s voice. In his dissection of the hearing, Kosta played a clip where Senator Michael Bennett asked Kennedy if he had said a number of quotes, one of which was about AIDS.
Cutting back to Kosta, the host said: “Jesus Christ, this guy has said so many things that he can’t remember if he said Black AIDS is different from white AIDS.”. Putting on a raspy voice similar to Kennedy’s, Costa then adds: “White AIDS is so bland. And they put raisins in it. Don’t bring that white AIDS to my cookout.”.
The impersonation and the joke seemed to attract a very mixed response from the audience who weren’t sure whether to laugh or not. “You guys aren’t sure how to react to the voice,” said Kosta in response. RFK Jr has a rare voice disorder, spasmodic dysphonia, which he has had since he was 42.
The disorder can cause breaks in speech, a strained voice, and speech that may be difficult to understand. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, "there are no comparative studies pointing to a single, best treatment.".
