People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

This line is structured as a late-night monologue joke built on misdirection. It invokes public outrage over Arnold Schwarzenegger’s real-life scandal (an extramarital affair and a child with a household employee) and then flips expectations by calling the relationship “with his own wife,” treating marital sex as if it were the scandal. The humor depends on deliberate absurdity and on satirizing tabloid moral panic: the audience is led toward salacious condemnation, then the punchline reframes the “offense” as normal, highlighting how scandal narratives can distort perspective. It also plays on the idea that celebrity coverage can make even ordinary private life sound lurid when packaged as a headline.