"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
 — George Bernard Shaw; playwright

"Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious, like the education of our children, or our marriages, or the meaning of life (and I’m not talking about the film), and we could be laughing, and that would not make what we were discussing one bit less serious.

Solemnity, on the other hand, I honestly don’t know what it’s for. I mean, what is the point of it? The two most beautiful memorial services that I’ve ever attended both had a lot of humor and it freed us all and made the services inspiring and cathartic. But solemnity, it serves pomposity and the self-important always know, at some level of their consciousness, that their egotism is going to be punctured by humor. That’s why they see it as a threat."
 — John Cleese (Comedian) in an interview

Well, excuse me; I didn't realise das ist streng verboten! As far as I'm concerned, such a pompous and self-important attitude is just an open invitation to be ridiculed and I will gladly accept that challenge.

"All jokes should be banned in case anyone is offended."
 — Ricky Jervais, on Twitter/X; 2017/03/30

People without a sense of humor scare me. How do you manage to cope with the vicissitudes of life without occasionally turning into a homicidal maniac on a rampage? (I'm assuming here that that isn't something you do, but I could be mistaken.) Do you choose the other option, which is to break into a bought of sobbing (frankly, a far healthier option than getting stabby or trigger-happy, IMO)?

An inquiring mind (mine) wants to know.

Can you see The Far Side? Ships are gonna wreck. // Copyright 1993 FarWorks, Inc.

Heute auf der Suche nach Arbeitsplätzen: Es gibt einen Job für einen Eier-Leerhühnermann. (Today in looking for jobs: There is a job available for an egg-laying chicken man.)

Einen Eier-Leerhühnermann, because I'm a shit-stirrer and can't resist provoking people who object to humor in a serious setting. (Loosen up a bit and stop being so bloody Prussian.) If I get to showcase my creativity in doing so, all the better.

Thumbnail image: John Cleese, from Laughing Squid via YouTube