Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

Fey’s joke satirizes a recurring feature of democratic politics: candidates sometimes market “outsider” status and lack of governing experience as proof of authenticity. By pairing politics with prostitution—another arena where “experience” can be rhetorically inverted—she exposes how absurd it is to treat ignorance as a credential. The extended metaphor of an “unlicensed plumber” demanding to perform heart surgery sharpens the point: in most high-stakes professions, competence is nonnegotiable, yet voters are often asked to applaud the opposite. The final stage direction (“The crowd cheers.”) adds a cynical punchline, implying that the public can be complicit in rewarding anti-expertise.