WATCH: Hillary Tries Comedy Routine Targeting Trump. This Is Why She Lost.

Appearing with Andrew Ross Sorkin for The New York Times’ “DealBook” series and discussing the impeachment proceedings targeting President Trump over his dealings with Ukraine, former failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton assayed an attempt at comedy, as Mediaite reported, growling as she tried to imitate President Trump having a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Putin bellowing, “Vladimir just told me in my last secret phone call with him, get Ukraine responsible for that!”

Sorkin prompted Clinton’s ’s failed attempt at hilarity by asking, “If there was genuine corruption in that country (Ukraine), and there was genuine corruption or at least speculation about corruption with them as related to our own politics, what would have been the appropriate mechanism to have dealt with it?”