Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for February 11, 2011

I don’t get it

II think it meant that Mrs. Lovett was a women and was a lesser evil than Morality because she was a woman. Although I could be wrong. Im not the brighest bulb on the potch.

Thanks, Hillbillyman

The joke is in the words landlady and the words lessor, witch means to rent out. Yuck! I will never try a meat pie.

Landlady is the Lessor , leasing to the lessee; I think.

It more likely that Mrs. Lovett would be considered the junior partner to Sweeney Todd, the main villain of their story.

SpasticuMaxzmus has got it right. Lessor leases to the lessee. Quite an intellectual joke Weingarten, Weingarten, and Clark have for us today.

Also, note the spelling: if they simply meant that Mrs. Lovett was less than Moriarty, it would have been spelled “lesser.”

Two evils walk into a bar.

The first one orders a large grape juice. The second one pulls out a banana and shoots the piano player. The bar tender hits the the first evil over the head with half a gallon of fermented Brussels’s sprouts.

The dead piano player asks the bar-keep why he didn’t hit the second one instead with something more substantial.

The bar-keeps says, I don’t know the d a m n fool thinking up this alleged joke hasn’t written my line yet.

RCMinor i don’t know, i think it works. of the two evils, she is the lessor. Said another way, between the two evils, she is the lessor.

The lessor and lessee enter into a lease on the property that is “to let.”

That’s perhaps a lesser step than going from “less” to “least”.

Let that be a lesson.

It’s the leased I can do.