This line is generally reserved for the warm up to the outrageous quote.  In this case, no warm up is needed.

I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.” – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  [duct tape over mouth]

Good luck on NBC, Rod.