The imaginings of children
Comedy may be about timing, but humour is about juxtaposition. I came across this on the New Yorker's website:
The Wisdom of Children, by Simon Rich
A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table
MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are…
3 comments:
Must be British humour, I don't get it.
Well New York is in Britain...
(So is Olde Yorke.)
That's a wonderful pastiche - it really makes me chuckle inwardly. Great reading for anyone who, at one time or another in their lives, was once a kid.
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