DNC laughs as Bill Clinton deploys cutting humor to attack Trump

Audience members at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday broke out laughing as former President Bill Clinton continuously used humor to jab Donald Trump.

During his speech, Clinton attacked Trump's age, self-absorbed nature and insistence on returning to Hannibal Lecter references when talking about migrants.

At one point, Clinton rhetorically asked the audience, "What does Donald Trump do with his voice?"

"He mostly talks about himself, right?" slammed Clinton. "So the next time you hear him, don't count the lies — count the Is."

Clinton remarked that Trump's "vendettas," "vengeance," "complaints" and "conspiracies" reminded him of a tenor's opening before walking on stage.

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"Trying to get his lungs open by singing, 'me, me, me, me!'" said Clinton to more laughs, including from his wife Hillary Clinton.

Later in his speech, Clinton hit the MAGA leader again.

"When [former] President Trump said nobody respected America anymore like they did when he was president — and with a straight face! You got to give it to him he's a great actor," he said to more laughs. "With a straight face he cited as evidence of the respect that existed for us when he was there, the presidents of North Korea and Russia!"

Clinton then turned to Trump's bizarre "Silence of the Lambs" remark. He joked that even he — once dubbed by former President Barack Obama as the "explainer in chief" couldn't make heads or tails of Trump's "late, great Hannibal Lecter" fascination.

"Folks, I thought and thought about it and I don't know what to say," he joked in his classic southern accent.