Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 20, 2018

Andy, you should know by now that Joanie is a behind the scenes person.

Gotta love his spirit, which is all there will be left to love in a while, I suppose.

Bad when Andy looks better than she does. Oh wait, he doesn’t.

The difference is that he understands it doesn’t matter.

Relax, Joanie. Shut off the camera, primp and prop, then turn it on again when you’re ready.

“I’m not my hair”.

Words to live by. Or, in Andy’s case…

It’s OK. We’ll fix it in post.

You certainly can tell this is an old strip, by the “fully carpeted” remark. Now a days we would insist on lovely, newly finished, premium wood flooring.

I think he meant he was going to a Great Behind…

" And now Joanie will say a few kind words…"

" A few kind words. "

So who’s the lead singer in heaven’s all-star rock band?

“Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.”

Two baseball pitchers promised each other if one of them died first, he would come back as a ghost to tell the other if there was baseball in heaven. So, the one that dies first comes back as a ghost and says “I’ve got some good news and some bad news…”

“What’s the good news?”

“The good news is, there is baseball in heaven.”

“Well, what’s the bad news?”

“You’re pitching on Wednesday…”

Recently I was last to speak at a memorial service for a long-time family friend. I finished by noting that whenever I told a corny joke, she would say “David, go to your room!” The room brightened, and I added, "Oops! She just said ‘David, go sit down!’ "