Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters for May 22, 2024

I personally have eaten many bananas, but I have never eaten a monkey.

I am sure that I and many many others are relieved to hear that.

They are.

The monkeys must be relieved to hear that.

Now that is funny.

Here’s a real life riddle for you…, What is the world’s best selling fruit? (Answer in the reply.)

Not hard to do since only Micky is still alive.

I’ve never seen a bald monkey.

I love that sort of word play-like douglas Adams’it’s unpleasantly like being drunk."

“What’s so bad about that?”

“You ask a glass of water.”

I think you’re right, Grimm.

You have to cook a monkey…

Talk about Ambiguous Syntax.

Bananas taste better.

Ba-dum-bump…Cymbal crash!

That’s a classic Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello-type joke.

As an editor, I saw the punchline a mile away.

maybe that why we eat more banananananas

And we still don’t know the elephant got in Groucho Marx’s pajamas.