Rubes by Leigh Rubin for May 26, 2021

Don’t forget your oysters, Rockefeller!

Adieu or ado?!?!

I appreciate the effort, but you didn’t need the long-winded setup for the pun. The drawing was enough. And the oyster isn’t actually halved, just opened. At least put it on the half shell.

He’s on the show to drop a few pearls of wisdom. I just hope that they don’t have a pig as the next guest.

Is this dinner talk?

this joke is no pearl

He’s got some chops.

not even worthy of the rim shot…

Here to share his pearls of wisdom…

Aw, shucks!

Too much buildup, too little joke.

Pastis would’ve stretched it out into 4 panels before the pun-line…

Do not clam up now, o-k?

A cooking show on radio?

Check him for weapons. He might be a shooter.

He seems happy as a clam.

“now we’ll talk about when life gives you lemons…”

This cartoon is punny.

Be nice to the oyster, or else, he may just clam up.