I’m kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

The line plays as a self-deprecating, comic feint: the speaker first claims near-poverty (“only a few dollars”), then immediately undercuts it with a sly correction (“a few dollars more”). The humor depends on understatement and on the gap between public perception and private reality—suggesting someone who is known (or assumed) to be wealthy but prefers to project modesty, or at least to toy with the audience’s expectations. Read as a James Brown quip, it also fits a showman’s persona: quick timing, a wink at money-talk, and a refusal to be pinned down by literal statements. The joke ultimately highlights how wealth can be both a bragging point and something to deflect.