Rubes by Leigh Rubin for July 13, 2024

An arrow escape.

He was a wild and crazy boy.

Steve Martin as a boy?

You’ve got to know you’re audience.

This was not the right audience for this joke.

Must have inspired Steve Martin’s WILD AND CRAZY routine?

Seems like a win.

In 1968 the Hong Kong flu hit just before Christmas and it was bad enough to close the college for a month. I threw all my stuff in a duffel bag and got a ride back home arriving at 12:30am. I didn’t have my key so when mom answered the door and asked why I was home I told her that I had been kicked out of school. She asked why and I said drugs and the next I know she is going down and I am quickly saying “It’s a joke, I’m still in school”. Needless to say she was thankful but my breakfast the next morning had ‘runny eggs’.

the bent arrow was a TELL tale sign

Look up Danny Kaye “William Tell and Son” online for a hilarious sketch.

Now he has to Tell dad.

Historians know that William Tell and his son were in a bowling league. But because no records were kept nobody knows for whom the Tells bowled.

The ‘William Tell Overture’ was originally the ‘William Tell hovering over his dead mother’s body Overture’.

It was no joke to Gessler.