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Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 29, 2016
Transcript:
bernice: luann, i can't imagine anything we could do in a talent show luann: let's just think a sec, bern. so... you don't sing. or act. or dance. luann: you're not funny. you can't do a cool thing like play a tuba with your nose. you're kinda uptight and reserved... bernice: is this part of our best-bud, crazy fun summer? 'cuz i'm not feeling it luann: you do have a talent for sarcasm...
Namrepus over 8 years ago
Pittsville DOESNāT Have Talent.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
well, this certainly is getting nowhere
31768 over 8 years ago
she loves silent movies. maybe do a Chaplin impression.
PhilipB over 8 years ago
Sinatra: āYou donāt have to work blue..youāve got talent kidāLuther Cambell: āBut Iāve got no talentāSinatra: āyouāve got a kind of Ben Vereen thing going on.. youāve got talentāBruce Cambell: But i dont have any talent.. tell him man!Billy Idol: āHeās right.. he sucks!ā
JayBluE over 8 years ago
Why, thereās plenty of talent from the old Pitts school!-Yep, thereās a lot of things cominā out of the olā Pittsā¦.the Pitts are practically alive with things, like the sound of music, sports, pet tricks, and more!-Okay, maybe some of The Pitts reekā¦..
luann1212 over 8 years ago
Nailed her best friendās exterior personality pretty well. Opposites attract because all of the things that Luann brought out about Bernice, are exactly the things that Luann is not. Maybe poetry slam? All the drama over relationships expressed in poetic expression? Maybe they can rehearse a comedy routine with Bernice being the straight woman (not a gay reference for those trolls who might misunderstand the reference (lol). Whatever it should be interesting.
Argythree over 8 years ago
-I think Iāve figured this out, but I really hope Iām wrong. Luann actually does have some ability in song writing, but works better as part of a team. Unfortunately, the only available person who might be part of that team is Quill.
So this is how Greg will surprise usā¦.
kenhense over 8 years ago
We are short of good guesses. Bring it on, Greg!
JayBluE over 8 years ago
āTalent SearchāāAll Pitts Bulletināāā¦.And Carry A Big SchtickāāGo For The JugglerāāTomato AlleyāāA Rimshot In The DarkāāTāaint Nobodyās Business, If I Donātā (ā¬)āA Real Stand Up Kind Of PersonāāEx Post FactorāāStar ChasmāāYouāve Got FailāāStupid Human Tricksā
āSo You Thought You Could DanceāorāAmerican Idleā
Salinasong over 8 years ago
We already know that Luann can sing. Iām thinking that Bernice might put all that sarcasm into a stand up routine.
hankgillette over 8 years ago
The Va-whina monologues.
blunebottle over 8 years ago
Truth hurts, Bernā¦..
JayBluE over 8 years ago
Or the Unknown Comicā¦.
JayBluE over 8 years ago
That reminds me- I forgot about āGong With The Windāā¦..
rimshot22 over 8 years ago
They seem pretty funny to me. Bernice makes a great āstraight personā to Luannās ācomic foil.ā
rimshot22 over 8 years ago
Actually that sounds like a good idea.
rimshot22 over 8 years ago
I checked and heās still alive at 90. I donāt know if heās still driving though.
Barry1941 over 8 years ago
How about standup comedy? Plenty have comedians have used sarcasm.
Sisyphos over 8 years ago
Letās not beat around the bush. Bernice has no talent. That is at least part of why she is so bitter and sarcastic all the time. Itās why she may never find a long-term boyfriend.Bernice needs help! Who can develop some talent? How about Pru? Or, if weāre really desperate, old Elwood?
OneTime59 over 8 years ago
Not sure Iāve ever seen a strip where Luann actually called out Bernice on her snarkasm. Luann must have been noticing all along and now it has come to the surface.
Flash Gordon over 8 years ago
How about a female version of Abbott and Costello?Martin and Lewis? Your turn.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Hey! Bernice can assist Gunther with His Magic Act! Bernice HAS shown some talent for Magic in the Past. After All, She Made Her Last Boyfriend, Zane (WAIT for It) āDISAPPEAR!ā
NO? Well, How about Bern Reading Selected Works from Shakespeare?
āOh Pi-rio, Pi-rio! WHEREFORE Art Thou, PI-RIO???ā
Hmmm. Well Maybe Bern Could Just BRIBE the Judgesā¦.,
comicboyz over 8 years ago
Stand up comic!!Bernice would be great at that!
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 8 years ago
7Today reads to me like Greg may be poking gentle fun at us for how many of us have consistently called out Bernice for being pretty much always āsarcasticā. Luann staring out at us (peering through the fourth wall perhaps?) when she says her line reinforces that idea to me. The ideas about the comedic duo would seem to work very well. To me they would fit perfectly into a āBurns & Allenā sort of style with Luann being Gracie and Bernice being George.So, I wonder if all the debate yesterday about Leslieās tip ācollectingā was all for naught? Could Leslieās appearance yesterday just have been to be a busboy and he will be out of the picture for quite a while againā¦. or will he resurface again as this arc progresses? Perhaps Greg showed him busing tables simply as a red herring to get us thinking?
RandomLeeme over 8 years ago
well considering all Bernice does is point out Luanns shortcomings or how she handles everything wrong, seems like a fair time for return in mutual honesty.
Willow Mt Lyon over 8 years ago
A routine like Sonny and Cher.
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
Abbot and Costello?
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
Ohhhhhh, Lucy and Ethel! That is a very fine fit.
Sakamichi over 8 years ago
Channel the Rita Rudner in you Bernice.
David Rickard Premium Member over 8 years ago
So Bernice has no artistic talents, but sheās good at sarcasm? Guess sheās gonna grow up to be a political cartoonistā¦
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
I am wondering if the talent show will be a way to resolve a bunch of issues: Les practising slight of hand for a magic show ;-), Jock really being named Jock and playing the bagpipes, Piroās background being revealed, etc.
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
Ohhhhh, and Tiffany could ask Gunther to play the object of her affection in a skit, but of the night of performance she coukd not fake the kissā¦
GovernmentCheese over 8 years ago
Talents huh? Well, Bern is very talented at snaring men in for silent films ā wait I have that backwards. As for Luann, you got me there.
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
I just had a quiet little chuckle! By the time the show happens ( late July maybe?) we are going to have advanced so many ideas that no one will remember who said what when, and we will become our own comedy act here in the comments section! Oh, wait! Are some of us already there?
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
Hey, what if Bernice winds up in two acts that night ā or having to choose between two if Piro asks her to join him in a silent film routine after She and Luann sign up for a Burnett Momma routine, or a Lucy and Ethel routine, or an Abbot and Costello routine, or something of their own in those veins?
Argy.Bargy2 over 8 years ago
Since Bernice is not the slightest bit interested in this whole thing, why would she get involved in a skit with Quill? And why would Quill get involved with a talent show as a participant, when heās a professional actor? If anything, he might wind up being a judge (although after he told the DeGroots that he couldnāt work at The Fuse anymore, that would seem doubtful.)
My hope is for one day when we can read posts here without one mention of Luann being jealous because someone else is involved with Quillā¦.
Argy.Bargy2 over 8 years ago
That was when I thought the direction was to dump Luann into yet another relationship (this time with a character that the creators had not even named), just because the creators of the ātoon feared a loss of readership if Luann was NOT in a relationship.
Since that has not happened yet, Iām still reading in the hope that Luann will end up with some idea of a future that includes not just a guy but also a possible direction in lifeā¦
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
With a three week lead time i coukd imagine individual strips sometimes being subbed in, or short arcs dropped to advance another arc in the line-up, but usually such a lead time makes the guesses here irrelevant, ditto the size of the commentor and comment reading population in relation to the newspaper reading population. So, i coukd see ideas sometimes being liked butā¦
Argy.Bargy2 over 8 years ago
-Why donāt you visit 9 Chickweed Lane (especially ātoons from 2 or 3 days ago)? That might be what youāre looking forā¦
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen over 8 years ago
Paul Lynde and Don Rickles both made careers with sarcastic jokes.. Not my favorite art form, but a talent is a talent.
jayaresea over 8 years ago
i fondly recall all the talent shows i entered as a college student
special k over 8 years ago
Bernice should do a stand up comedy act in the old Don Rickles way. Just tear everyone a new one.
locake over 8 years ago
Most people have some kind of talentāsomething they are especially good at. Our society mostly values talents that are entertaining, because we like to be entertained. Certainly balancing a checkbook or doing brain surgery are more valuable than singing or accurately throwing a ball.
dblbaraje over 8 years ago
Why doesnāt Bernice have a job????
doverdan over 8 years ago
For Bernice having some reaction to events, see:
http://assets.amuniversal.com/bbc4b4606d6101301d80001dd8b71c47
SactoSylvia over 8 years ago
This story line is going nowhere fastā¦ :(
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
Hey, take a look in todayās Luann Again!
RSH over 8 years ago
Theyāre even now. for all the times Bern has made critical snarky remarks to Luann, Luann is now throwing the ball back into Bernās court.
Argy.Bargy2 over 8 years ago
My late uncle financed a business by counting cards during and after WW 2, playing pokerā¦
ACTIVIST1234 over 8 years ago
1) Comic duoā Bern as the straight woman, Lu the comedian2) Lu, find a new partner
Caldonia over 8 years ago
Um, whereās Pru been through all this? She has a room in that house. Hello?
Mordock999 Premium Member over 8 years ago
āI permanently dropped 9CL from my reading list afterā¦.,ā_____________________________________
I tried, I Really TRIED, to Like 9CL. I followed it for awhile, but had quite of strips that the first two panels depicting an empty room and the LAST panel featuring the āFaceā of that Hideous, Hell-Spawned, āCAT.ā
wiatr over 8 years ago
I knew there was something about Bernice that I liked.
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
I think the two separate WWII series of stories from 9CL might be the two best long comics stories ever done. They followed the secret stories of the grandparents during the war.
Airman over 8 years ago
Bernice can always recruit Dez and friends to do one of their drum beating sessions with a jungle projection behind them. Gunther can make the leopard skin bikinis and skimpy loin cloths.
Kymberleigh over 8 years ago
How about they spend the summer drinking beer and doing naughty things with some boys with tatoos.
How about you do that instead if cluttering up the comments section with suggestions that we all know Greg and Karen wouldnāt ever use.Airman over 8 years ago
Okay, as done in the movie, āChicagoā, Luann could be the ventriloquist and Bernice her dummy. Luann would sing and Bernice would deliver annoying ad libs.
Schrodinger's Dog over 8 years ago
spoiler alert:Both Luann and Bernice have their good points; Itās a toss-up which girl is the better catch.
David Huie Green LikeNobody'sEverSeen over 8 years ago
āI permanently dropped 9CL from my reading list after I read that Brooke McEldowney doesnāt like readers commenting on his stripsā.But did you hear/read him say it?.He has said he objected to people trying to stop other people from objectionable speech and using his spot to call for silencing them.Of course, that, too, is objectionable speech so I guess heās cursed either way..And you decided to boycott him. Up to you.I decided to read him. I get the better end of the deal.
SukieCrandall Premium Member over 8 years ago
Spoiler alert: once again missing what is right in front, in more ways than one.
Argythree over 8 years ago
-Aw, birdie, now we have to clean that up. Not niceā¦