Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for August 23, 2023

No joking?

You’re missing a golden opportunity, dude.

ok, let’s get married.

Lady smacks him with a handbag: “Better?”

He’s also used to his jokes being received with a deathly silence…..

Maybe she can help, Bung.

First time I’ve seen him not drunk!

What does the Jester eat for breakfast?

A pun-cakes

Did you hear about the jester who made a bad joke to the King?

His execution was terrible.

What do you call an unemployed jester?

Nobody’s fool.

Same.

I find it difficult to perform when she’s reading her texts and chewing gum.

At least he didn’t say about not being able to tell a joke because someone might be offended…

She seems slimmer in the first panel. He seems slimmer in the last.

Sounds like he needs lashed until his attitude improves.

Tell me a joke or I’ll strangle you.

No motivation here!

Give him a drink first….

I’m sure she could threaten you.

You’re next to a steep place with a deadly fall and she’s getting pizzed at you. That should be close enough.

Sorry. I’m off duty.

I’d rather be a jester than a jouster.

“Then you are in luck, you have come to the right woman.”

Every open mic portends the fear of death…

Death becomes him…..NOT!

Performance anxiety!! I think they have a little blue pill for that.

The original “Funny Or Die”.

How about a threat of no sex?

199. Two Brothers coming to be executed once for ſome enormous Crime;  the Eldeft was firſt turn’d off, without ſaying one Word: The other mounting the Ladder, began to harangue the Crowd, whoſe Ears were attentively open to hear him, expecting ſome Confeſſion from him, “Good People,” ſays he, “my Brother hangs before my Face, and you ſee what a lamentable SPECTACLE he makes; in a few Moments I ſhall be turned off too, and then you’ll ſee a Pair of SPECTACLES.”                  —Joe Miller’s Jests; or, the WITS Vade-mecum (MDCCXXXIX)