I ran into James O'Loghlin at the Innovation Awards in Brisbane last week. He MCed the awards and in introducing the evening with a 10-15 minute monologue that was sufficiently funny that I the dim dark recesses of my brain reminded me that he was a stand up comedian before he was and ABC announcer. He was very good.
In any event, in discussions after the show I asked him if he knew any good jokes - as in jokes one tells. He said he'd heard one lately that he liked.
A man is walking home one night and walking down the path to his front door. It's night time and the ground is damp. He takes his foot and flicks a snail off the pathway into the garden.
Three years later there's a knock on the door . . . It's the snail. The man answers the door.
The snail says "What the fuck was that about?"
I laughed.
He was a lawyer before becoming a comedian.
John Cleese read law but I do not think he ever practised
I asked an ex-comedian is he knew any good jokes.
He said "No".
It made me laugh..gentle humour.
Yes, I think he still does some law.
I've got a better one. You know how Federal Labor are introducing a big fat carbon tax to save the planet? Meanwhile State Labor are busy Greenwashing.
so observa, you do this for a living?
Yes, it appears so. Sad really - eventually he'll discover that it doesn't earn any money ;)
Relax folks, I've been a good boy and salted away the pennies and Labor Govts are always good for a laugh, although I can appreciate it's always at the battler's expense. There might be a moral to the snail's knock on the door there ;)
I can't resist this one - a all time favourite... Two elephants walked off a cliff. . Boom , Boom!