Jack Benny was a complete, unfunny twat.


Did I say humour was personal or what?

Now would the misanthropes of this parish care to make a joke out of 20 seconds of silence? Jack Benny did, on the radio! OK it predicted on his stage personna of being stingy but in the context it was FUNNY. And it got laughs in three places.

I like intellectual humour, but find there are people out there that just don't get the jokes. And some who kid themselves they are soooooo intellectual that they sort of knew the punchline before it was reached. And Cosmotheka used to tell the same jokes all the time, but you never lost money putting them on!

I bet there are some miseries that wouldn't find Gerrard Hoffnung funny.

I well remember a blind date with a girl who said she was a humourus person, so I said "I am not conceited, but I have every reason to be". She said, in all seriousness, "but that makes you conceited". The blinds went down rather quickly!