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At a restaurant where the server’s nametags read: “Montoni’s / [name] / Since 1981”. So of course I asked her what her name was before 1981, and she said, “Fred.” I guess she’s heard it before? I apologized: it’s a compulsion, I explained, when a guy reaches a certain age.
Reading Family Circus, nobody ever died of excessive hilarity. Other very safe strips are Marmaduke, Ziggy, Beetle Bailey… I’ll stop, too many to name.
“The sketch is framed in a documentary style and opens with Ernest Scribbler (Michael Palin), a British “writer of jokes”, creating and writing the funniest joke in the world on a piece of paper only to die laughing. His mother (Eric Idle) finds the joke, thinks it is a suicide note, reads it and also immediately dies laughing." — Monty Python …
danketaz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I refuse to comment on the grounds that it might incriminate me.
Dr. Quatermass almost 4 years ago
Sadly, Ms. Weinreit died of shock when Matt Tracy bungled a well known joke (but started it with “poker in the front.”)
tudza Premium Member almost 4 years ago
All these examples support justifiable homicide.
ItsPat almost 4 years ago
Whose dad is he?
danielmkimmel almost 4 years ago
Me: Where are your glasses?My daughter: I’ve got contacts.Me: I don’t care who you know.My daughter: Daaad, that’s not funny.
Decepticomic almost 4 years ago
At least it’s not a joke about “cancel culture”.
Yontrop almost 4 years ago
“Thousands of starving comics in this city and you have to make jokes.”
steverinoCT almost 4 years ago
At a restaurant where the server’s nametags read: “Montoni’s / [name] / Since 1981”. So of course I asked her what her name was before 1981, and she said, “Fred.” I guess she’s heard it before? I apologized: it’s a compulsion, I explained, when a guy reaches a certain age.
ArtieEl almost 4 years ago
W00t W00t Po-town shout out!
byobg almost 4 years ago
I feel seen. (My lawyers will be in touch.)
Rayodeluz almost 4 years ago
Comedy can be lethal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBWr1KtnRcI
Plumb.Bob Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Reminds me of Monty Python’s lethal joke skit.
Kip W almost 4 years ago
I appreciate how well they concealed my identity for this fictionalized segment.
PoodleGroomer almost 4 years ago
(reaching for wallet) I had hair, then I had money, then I had children.
^ almost 4 years ago
Reading Family Circus, nobody ever died of excessive hilarity. Other very safe strips are Marmaduke, Ziggy, Beetle Bailey… I’ll stop, too many to name.
dfischer348 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
“The sketch is framed in a documentary style and opens with Ernest Scribbler (Michael Palin), a British “writer of jokes”, creating and writing the funniest joke in the world on a piece of paper only to die laughing. His mother (Eric Idle) finds the joke, thinks it is a suicide note, reads it and also immediately dies laughing." — Monty Python …
jpozenel almost 4 years ago
So glad that second piece of evidence was explained.
willie_mctell almost 4 years ago
Hmm…The Monty Python sketch about The Joke.
mfrasca almost 4 years ago
Michael Scott
fsirett almost 4 years ago
What? Other people have my schtick? Or do I actually know you and you are plagiarising me?