Rubes by Leigh Rubin for April 20, 2023

Stunt doubles are expendable.

A terrible waste of an omelet

Afterward, all the director’s horses and men couldn’t put their stunt-egg together again.

What a waste of a good egg.

“Okay … Let’s have a great fall. … Breakup in five, four, three, … ‘Action!’”

Break an egg

Did you know that humpty dumpty was actually a heavy weight cannon. It was the name of a cannon used by the Royalists during the English Civil War.Humpty Dumpty was stationed on the walls of Colchester and was one of several cannons erected to try and keep Parliament’s army from taking the city. However, the Parliamentary forces heavily damaged the walls beneath Humpty Dumpty with their own artillery. You can guess where this is going: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and got stuck in the ground so couldn’t be put back together again.Good timing then as I only found out about this today when someone told me

But if I do it right, the yolk’s on you

Yeah, he doesn’t have the guts to do that stunt again!

You’re on, Eggsie. Crack a shell.

Try not to crack under pressure, ok?

I hope this goes like the egg planned.

You can break at the end of this take. Action !

The movie took a shellacking at the box office.

This was his break-out role.

Yes, because eggs are too expensive!!!

I find it ironic my paper and all others owned by the same company dropped this strip, which was new to at least some papers when they all added it if they didn’t have it already, because my paper was promoting this strip and books for it like crazy.

“Roll ’im!”