In Which My Career as a Comedy Writer Begins (And Probably Ends)

Here’s a joke in this week’s Women’s World, read aloud to the room today by my sister:

Q: What happens to frogs who illegally park?

A: They get toad.

It was requested by my father that she repeat it later, and people laughed genuinely at the silliness of it. The sudden wordplay. My sister looked at me expectantly. “That doesn’t make any sense,” I said.

Everyone vocally hated on me.

“You should change it to, ‘They find themselves toad’,” I said. And then I totally roflmao’d.

So, to recap:

Q: What happens to frogs who illegally park?

A: They find themselves toad.

Hollywood: I’m free this summer.

National Lampoon’s Lemmings: Dead in Concert

The conceit of Lemmings is that we’re watching live footage of the Woodchuck Festival, Three Days of Peace, Love, and Death, where people have amassed on a farm in upstate New York to listen to music and kill themselves. It stars very young (and alive) versions of Christopher Guest, John Belushi, and Chevey [sic] Chase. Aided by musician Paul Jacobs and former Miss Arkansas Rhonda Coullet, they play songs spoofing the likes of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker, CSNY, Joni Mitchell, and others.

This doesn’t do the movie any justice.
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