Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 27, 2021

I refuse to comment on the grounds that it might incriminate me.

Sadly, Ms. Weinreit died of shock when Matt Tracy bungled a well known joke (but started it with “poker in the front.”)

All these examples support justifiable homicide.

Whose dad is he?

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.

At least it’s not a joke about “cancel culture”.

“Thousands of starving comics in this city and you have to make jokes.”

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.

W00t W00t Po-town shout out!

I feel seen. (My lawyers will be in touch.)

Comedy can be lethal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBWr1KtnRcI

Reminds me of Monty Python’s lethal joke skit.

I appreciate how well they concealed my identity for this fictionalized segment.

(reaching for wallet) I had hair, then I had money, then I had children.

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 …

So glad that second piece of evidence was explained.

Hmm…The Monty Python sketch about The Joke.

Michael Scott

What? Other people have my schtick? Or do I actually know you and you are plagiarising me?