[Dilbert San Diego]

Does Colbert get a commission, for telling his viewers to buy a Tesla?

I still don’t get his joke. He said he’s willing to pay $15 a gallon for gas, because he drives a Tesla. What is the joke? If he doesn’t buy gas at all because he drives a Tesla, how can he say he’s willing to pay more for a product he doesn’t even buy in the first place?

[Red Badger]

IOW, he’s saying he does not care if gas goes to $100 per gallon.......................

[PeterPrinciple]

I still don’t get his joke. He said he’s willing to pay $15 a gallon for gas, because he drives a Tesla. What is the joke? If he doesn’t buy gas at all because he drives a Tesla, how can he say he’s willing to pay more for a product he doesn’t even buy in the first place?

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It is not funny if it is real and hurts.

How would Johny Carson have said the joke?

[Sans-Culotte]

I still don’t get his joke. He said he’s willing to pay $15 a gallon for gas, because he drives a Tesla. What is the joke?

First of all, Colbert is painfully unfunny, so don't try too hard to get his "jokes". But the joke in this instance means that since he drives a Tesla, he does not care how high gas prices soar because he won't be buying any of it. Only non-elite schmucks who can't afford Teslas will be paying those prices.

[plain talk]

“If he doesn’t buy gas at all because he drives a Tesla, how can he say he’s willing to pay more for a product he doesn’t even buy in the first place?”

That’s the joke.