Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 15, 2020

Notify The Ministry of Silly Walks.

We’re still on the hook for an actual punch line

It’s the principal of the thing.

From a Far Side cartoon whose date and exact text elude me at the moment: “Do you have trouble coming up with ideas?” “Well sometimes, replied the cartoonist.”

Maybe Jef is looking for suggestions to round it off. Could be writer’s block. Hits everyone at some point. Use to hit me whenever I was given a deadline for a report.

Self referencing cartoons are the best for potential paradoxes!

He spilled coffee down his pants again, didn’t he?

Prostate cancer surgery

Somebody notify the fourth wall maintenance committee STAT!

And …? (where is it!?)

Well…That’s funny…Hmm.

Reminds me of my daughter in 1st grade who had just heard of “knock knock” jokes.

She: “Daddy, I know a joke; knock knock”

Me: “who’s there?”

She: “I don’t know”

Me: “I don’t know who?

She: “ I don’t know who either!

So these two cannibals in the restaurant call the waiter over. “I don’t know about this clown,” says one. “He tastes funny.” …

You did take the day off.

Don’t think you can get away that easily.

I knew a woman who was great at improv. But no matter how much she worked and improved her craft, if she was tired she always got a chuckle from a fart or burp.

still…

At least Frazz didn’t do the “walk this way” joke.

Mr. Spaetzle has enough of children when he’s working. He just made sure that he wouldn’t have any more at home.

I love it when Mallett so casually breaks the, um, Third Wall. I remember Pogo’s friend Albert lighting his “ceegar” by casually striking a match on the panel border. It takes real talent to create a reality that we so willingly believe, and then have it turn to us, look us in the eyes, and say “I’m not real, you know.” And yet we still believe.

Is this the line for punching?