That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 08, 2019

“What do you mean I can’t have apricot tarts because they are out of season? I’m the emperor and I want apricot tarts!”

When you realise you’ve forwarded this invitation from this hot trans Tinder date to your full work contact list…

“Moliere says he’s going to write a play about tartar. I see no problem with that.”

While you’re up, get me a Grant’s!

I’ll have a Diet Coke and a cheeseburger!

Well, sir, we’d all like to try that comfy chair before buying!

“Oh, this old thing? I’ve had it for years. Got it downtown at Chapeaus Sont Nous.

“Nice hat, Cardinal Zima!”

Excuse me, Your Majesty, I hope you have finished dinner, there are still people waiting to be able to sit at the table.

“No, Sire – this the applicant for the position of executioner, not stool attendant.”

“What’s this fly doing in my soup?” “The backstroke your majesty, nuk,nuk,nuk”

I’m sorry, my liege, but your taster has called in sick and I am your valet; tasting your victuals is outside my job description.

Hah! As if anyone plays “Scrabble” anymore. I mean, a game where spelling really counts and contractions aren’t allowed?

“Excuse me, Count de Money….” “That’s Dee Moe-nay! Dee Moe-nay!”

“The one with the bible.. in the grey with the big white bib. None of us are getting any sleep, and it’s always him, giggling and dragging us around the gardens and pawing us.”

Don’t sign it sir, The Yanks will call this deal the " Louisiana Purchase " and will tarnish your reputation henceforth…

Trying to solve the Word Jumble without everybody in “the whole damn family” blurting out the answers.

“Do you MIND, Marquis ? "

I am signing the I am the only one allowed to wear a hat decree.

Your Uber is here, sir.

" Tell my wife I’ll be home as soon as I finish this game…oh, and tell old Cardinal Richie Britches over there, that if he wants to excommunicate me, he’ll have to wait his turn. "

The guy in black wondering if he dares to ask “You gonna eat that?”

Louis XIV and Molière: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_Louis_XIV_and_Moliere.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly B2 paper size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gerome_jean-leon.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-leon-gerome 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=56 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/gerome/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/gerome1.html 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/jean-l%C3%A9on-g%C3%A9r%C3%B4me/ 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/9 

http://hoocher.com/Jean_Leon_Gerome/jean_leon_gerome.htm 

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/exhibitions-archives/article/jean-leon-gerome-25691.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. If the last doesn’t open, and you haven’t looked there before, set the Year to 2011 in 

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives.html?no_cache=1 

click Search, click Gérôme line, then For a detailed presentation in the resulting page. So far, 22 works by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/02/27?comments=visible 

has the prior work (my comment there had the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2154 (March 7, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Yes, I like this last draft very much, Molière. Especially the part, “I’m King of the World”!

Unless you’re into theatre history, the significance of thus image will be hard to see. Suffice it to say the relationship between this king and this playwright makes them as complicated a pair of frenemies as you’re likely to find.

“Le Roi s’amuse”. I can actually HEAR Moliere sweating !

My favorite line except “That’s Hedley” from Blazing Saddles is wonderful too..

And he’d get 50 bonus points for using all 7 letters.