Mister Boffo: Unclear on the Concept

This is a very subversive series of cartoons. It subverts not just your sense of order, but the very post-modern notion that it's not all right to laugh at stupid people. (you did know that, didn't you?) One of the least funny examples is Lewis and Clark's first attempt to find the northwest passage. It shows the toddling off in flip flops with a beach umbrella and a picnic cooler between them. Then there's the billboard that says "finally, a dog food that the whole family can enjoy" and the fella saying to his friend 'what do they mean, finally?' Or the lawyer who tells his client 'This time don't wink at me when you put your hand on the bible'. But, as with the similarly mordant The Book of Bunny Suicides there's another level of subversion. Check out the joke where the bunny is heading toward the surf at the same moment that all the other creatures on the beach are running in terror from the very obvious shark. Return of the Bunny Suicides. I don't know about you, but there have been times in my life when I've waded in when every sane person was running away. So when one guy in Hell turns to another sufferer and says "Don't forget our secret weapon.........Sarcasm!"or when the guy in the condemned cell says "ok, i'm ready to apologize." we can all have a good laugh-right up until we recognize someone we know. . . . Lynn Hoffman, author of bang BANG: A Novel and New Short Course in Wine,The