Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for February 16, 2023

Nope, sorry

Simon Bolivar, ‘Liberator of South America’ + Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher.

Thank you for the explanation.

It is a pune, or play on words.

It’s not even amusing. Here’s one:

Simone de Beauvoir asked his followers, “Why you can’t teach a stallion philosophy? After waiting pausing the requisite time with no answers, he replied, “because you can’t put Descartes before the horse.”

OK, I’ll go low-brow: What do you get when you throw a hand grenade into a French kitchen?

Linoleum Blownapart.

I have “Existential Comics” to thank for letting me get the joke right away.

Arcane yes, esoteric yes, recombinant yes, stupid yes, sophisticated, no…

his jokes inspire nausea – people want to run, but there’s no exit…

It was funny enough. Didn’t need the house elf to dissect it. That kind of ruins jokes, having someone serious explain it, unnecessarily.