If it actually happened.
The call sounds fake. Very, very fake.
And not funny. This 'call' was an audio equivalent of America's Funniest Home Videos, i.e. staged and not funny at all.
The call sounds real. Very, very real.
I think you're right. The call sounds over the top to me. I find it hard to believe that he could identify the Bible version from his car. What is interesting is that to some of us this sounds like America's Staged Videos, and to others it rings true.
That's exactly how it struck me. The first time I heard it was when I had the radio tuned to Coast to Coast in the background. I couldn't hear the words, just the laughing and the tone of voice. I thought it sounded staged and phony. Then I heard it again on another program, with the intro and all the monologue, and it still sounded fake. The part about old ladies hitting the man with a Bible was like something out of Monty Python.
Still, phony or not, it's got to be one of the better "why I'm late for work" calls.
That kind of laughter is pretty damn hard to fake. Hell, he could hardly speak...JFK