The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day by John "Scully" Scully for July 16, 2021

A funny monologue I read in newspaper.

I’m at the ocean and I use the beach service. I agree, 40 bucks for two beach chairs and an umbrella is a good price, but why can’t I bring them home?

The Horse and the Movie Theater

A horse sits down in a movie theater and the woman next to him asks, “Excuse me… are you a horse?”

“Why yes, I am,” replies the horse.

“What are you doing at this movie?”

The horse says, “I really liked the book.”

. . . . . . .

The Hallelujah Horse

A cowboy buys a horse from the town pastor. The pastor explains, “to make the horse go, you gotta yell, ‘Thank God!’ And to make it stop, yell, ‘Hallelujah.’”

The cowboy rides off. He rides all day and starts to nod off in the saddle when he notices he is about to ride straight over a cliff. Searching his memory, he yells to the horse, “Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” The horse grinds to a stop just at the edge of the cliff. The cowboy wipes the sweat off his forehead. ”Phew!” the cowboy sighs. “Thank God!”

Pity. Ken Fisher (a.k.a. Ruben Bolling) is a very funny and interesting artist and public intellectual. “John Scully’s” “work” is neither. Mark Twain promoted the idea that even a really unfunny “joke” told over and over would become sort of funny by a sort of bootstrap effect, like some of the tropes in The Goon Show (“Oh—he’s fallen in the water!”—unfunny in itself but somehow acquires a humorous effect with repetition).

Obviously, it doesn’t always work.