Here’s a joke the nuns will LOL on!! I just heard the Pope has just announced that it is okay now to kiss a nun! as long as you don’t get into the habit!!
I actually had a few nuns come to my standup presentation once. I told them, “I’m sorry I had to have you searched as you came in, Sisters. But I went to Catholic School, and we wanted to make sure you don’t have any rulers on you.”
Why do people think Nuns (and Priests) don’t have a sense of humor? They weren’t born Nuns & Priests & anyway are still people. Anyway, I do like the strip & 30 years, WOW.
Hope you’ll make mincemeat out of ‘em for many more years (that’s the holiday stuff in a jar from Borden’s brand Nun-such. Like a few nuns, it has been known to have brandy and rum in it).
Happy 30th anniversary!! Love your creations, just ordered your 365 day calendar & can’t wait to enjoy!! Thank you, keep us laughing… & laughing…& laughing …
Keep ‘em coming Mr. Wiley. Was on a construction site once, in Maine in fact, that was a new building for a group of nuns. We were directed to watch our behavior and language while on site “they are everywhere” so as not to offend the client. Was climbing around in the roof truss’ taking dimensions and slipped, jamming a knee into a vee of wood. Was about to verbally vent but, as I looked down at my stranded leg I saw, beyond it, the face of a nun looking up at me. Quiet smile on her face, hands clasped in front of her. Had to bite my tongue really hard….
On a separate note, in the first panel I visualize an even larger fish just behind the chef, who makes tantalizing bait.
In the second, I am reminded of when I was stationed in Mildenhall AFB England in 1960’s. Mort Sahl, known for his dry social commentary, made his debut before a live audience at the Palladium on the biggest English tv variety show at that time. He blew it. He used the term the queen in his first line. In the British Empire that’s something that just isn’t done, you know, old boy. The audience froze and remained silent for most of his act. Must have been one of his hardest performances ever.
30 years?? Why does it seem like only last week? We can’t be getting that old!
No matter … I have been a fan, follower, and faithful reader for all those years and have enjoyed every one of your often thought-provoking and always funny and well-drawn works.
I started working as a nurses’ aide in 1976. It was at a nursing home whose sign said “Sisters for the Aged and Infirm”. In my youthful naivete, I though " Oh, I will be working side by side with nuns who are helping the elderly!" Quickly learned the truth- none of the nuns worked directly with the elderly. We aides did all the bathing, dressing, toileting or taking care to make sure those who were incontinent were clean and dry. We fed those who could not feed themselves. Did the lifting of those who had lost mobility. Meanwhile, I have to say my first encounter with a nun was seeing her and a housekeeper reading Tarot cards with the housekeeper. Another nun was regularly seen leaving to play tennis with a priest. We were fortunate to receive a hot meal at lunchtime break at this facility. But we often passed a private dining room where the Mother Superior and the priest dined on lobster and other expensive meals.Along with my experience as a child, when I was expected to attend Mass just because my mother was Catholic, the job at the nursing home, and the exposure of pedophile priests, I do not believe in the Catholic Church anymore.
Garry Trudeau’s artwork improved over the years; Wiley Miller’s started out pretty damn good to begin with.
Randall Munroe makes no pretenses to artistry at all, Stephan Pastis has demonstrated mainly that he’s a master of copy-and-paste and Zip-A-Tone®, and Thaves is just … well, Thavian.
But each and every one of them has a unique wit, and they all make our lives richer.
The Non Sequitur cartoon right after Comedy Hell, and right before Chef Food-Chain (they originally appeared in reverse order) sports the first Wiley Bear.
Ah, the true alpha predator. And I get the second one, but I bet if you knew that was your audience with enough time in advance, you could have them in stitches.
eastern.woods.metal over 2 years ago
LOL Thank you Wiley for 30 wonderful years. Here’s hoping for many more
mr_sherman Premium Member over 2 years ago
Panel two: Sister Act.
Leroy over 2 years ago
Congratulations Wiley!
Wilde Bill over 2 years ago
And all the nuns are armed with rulers.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
That would be comedy hell!
STEPUP over 2 years ago
Hmmm, what does it mean, a prelude to goodbye??
Bilan over 2 years ago
Most of his jokes must have started with How many nuns does it take …
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 2 years ago
30 years! And yet you keep is so fresh.
lalapalooza Premium Member over 2 years ago
Here’s a joke the nuns will LOL on!! I just heard the Pope has just announced that it is okay now to kiss a nun! as long as you don’t get into the habit!!
eromlig over 2 years ago
I actually had a few nuns come to my standup presentation once. I told them, “I’m sorry I had to have you searched as you came in, Sisters. But I went to Catholic School, and we wanted to make sure you don’t have any rulers on you.”
Enter.Name.Here over 2 years ago
Him: “Did you hear the one about the priest and the…”
Them: " YESSSSSSSSSS!"
pauljmsn over 2 years ago
Wow, 30 years! Dancing rodents!
… Or, to put it another way – CONGA-RATS!!
chief tommy over 2 years ago
You’re the best Wiley. Keep it up
Zeno2099 over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary.
cdward over 2 years ago
Happy Anniversary, Wiley! Your work is much appreciated and enjoyed!
Ermine Notyours over 2 years ago
I thought comedy hell is an audience full of mimes, or crickets.
Ermine Notyours over 2 years ago
A nun walked into a comedy club. And then another. And then another.
TampaFanatic1 over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary. Hmmm back in 1992 that comedian could have been Andrew Dice Clay, that dude was stepping on a lot of toes back in the early ’90s.
gopher gofer over 2 years ago
keep on truckin’!
pcolli over 2 years ago
Nuns shall pass.
WDemBlk Premium Member over 2 years ago
Why do people think Nuns (and Priests) don’t have a sense of humor? They weren’t born Nuns & Priests & anyway are still people. Anyway, I do like the strip & 30 years, WOW.
William Bednar Premium Member over 2 years ago
Looks like the joke about the “Three Nuns at the Pearly Gates” went flat.
grocks over 2 years ago
Happy Anniversary, Wiley!
Display over 2 years ago
Hope you’ll make mincemeat out of ‘em for many more years (that’s the holiday stuff in a jar from Borden’s brand Nun-such. Like a few nuns, it has been known to have brandy and rum in it).
dgallowayd over 2 years ago
Is this a final lap before retirement???
Count Olaf Premium Member over 2 years ago
So a terrorist dies and goes to Heaven to collect his 1,000 virgins and… stop me if you’ve heard this one.
ljfuson Premium Member over 2 years ago
Happy 30th anniversary!! Love your creations, just ordered your 365 day calendar & can’t wait to enjoy!! Thank you, keep us laughing… & laughing…& laughing …
bbenoit over 2 years ago
Keep ‘em coming Mr. Wiley. Was on a construction site once, in Maine in fact, that was a new building for a group of nuns. We were directed to watch our behavior and language while on site “they are everywhere” so as not to offend the client. Was climbing around in the roof truss’ taking dimensions and slipped, jamming a knee into a vee of wood. Was about to verbally vent but, as I looked down at my stranded leg I saw, beyond it, the face of a nun looking up at me. Quiet smile on her face, hands clasped in front of her. Had to bite my tongue really hard….
Prey over 2 years ago
He started telling rude jokes, so one of the audience joined him for a drink – she was a Blue Nun!
sandpiper over 2 years ago
Cheers, Wiley. Hope the future is all you wish it to be.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Why do Nuns like me to tell dirty jokes? So they can slap the HELL out of me. …HA
mfrasca over 2 years ago
You gotta read the room.
sandpiper over 2 years ago
On a separate note, in the first panel I visualize an even larger fish just behind the chef, who makes tantalizing bait.
In the second, I am reminded of when I was stationed in Mildenhall AFB England in 1960’s. Mort Sahl, known for his dry social commentary, made his debut before a live audience at the Palladium on the biggest English tv variety show at that time. He blew it. He used the term the queen in his first line. In the British Empire that’s something that just isn’t done, you know, old boy. The audience froze and remained silent for most of his act. Must have been one of his hardest performances ever.
V45mikky over 2 years ago
A Great White following behind the chef.
Comics are the first thing to read over 2 years ago
Is panel one a take-off of one of my favorite NYr cartoons: “If you ask me, we’re all part of the problem”?
Linguist over 2 years ago
30 years?? Why does it seem like only last week? We can’t be getting that old!
No matter … I have been a fan, follower, and faithful reader for all those years and have enjoyed every one of your often thought-provoking and always funny and well-drawn works.
Happy Anniversary, Wiley!
Zombiwoman over 2 years ago
30 years. Impressive (& thanks for the laughs!)
Aaronious over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary Non Sequitur! 1992 today (16 Feb) was your first syndicated comic!
The Butler over 2 years ago
Yes, Happy Anniversary. Take the day off….. oh you just did!
Calvins Brother over 2 years ago
Happy Anniversary. Thanks for all the Wiley Bears.
Jon Premium Member over 2 years ago
1992. That’s about when Gary Larson retired. You don’t suppose. . . ? Nah.
mindjob over 2 years ago
“How many nuns does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
“That’s not funny”
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
They are all German nuns.
angier3824 Premium Member over 2 years ago
I started working as a nurses’ aide in 1976. It was at a nursing home whose sign said “Sisters for the Aged and Infirm”. In my youthful naivete, I though " Oh, I will be working side by side with nuns who are helping the elderly!" Quickly learned the truth- none of the nuns worked directly with the elderly. We aides did all the bathing, dressing, toileting or taking care to make sure those who were incontinent were clean and dry. We fed those who could not feed themselves. Did the lifting of those who had lost mobility. Meanwhile, I have to say my first encounter with a nun was seeing her and a housekeeper reading Tarot cards with the housekeeper. Another nun was regularly seen leaving to play tennis with a priest. We were fortunate to receive a hot meal at lunchtime break at this facility. But we often passed a private dining room where the Mother Superior and the priest dined on lobster and other expensive meals.Along with my experience as a child, when I was expected to attend Mass just because my mother was Catholic, the job at the nursing home, and the exposure of pedophile priests, I do not believe in the Catholic Church anymore.
Mary Sullivan Premium Member over 2 years ago
Wow, here is to another 30 years! (unless that scares you). One of my fav cartoonists.
brick10 over 2 years ago
The same theme in both panels – prepare to be eaten alive.
Duane Ott over 2 years ago
I thought the contract said convent-ion tour.
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
Just tell SOUND OF MUSIC jokes.I hear nuns think they got everything wrong in that one.
yimhere over 2 years ago
Nun better…..
brenfree over 2 years ago
Happy Anniversary, Wiley! May you have many more to come.
JenSolo02 over 2 years ago
First grade hell…. Oh the memories!
schaefer jim over 2 years ago
I find the second panel drop dead funny! I see several nuns from my years at St Tony’s! They aged gracefully!
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 2 years ago
Garry Trudeau’s artwork improved over the years; Wiley Miller’s started out pretty damn good to begin with.
Randall Munroe makes no pretenses to artistry at all, Stephan Pastis has demonstrated mainly that he’s a master of copy-and-paste and Zip-A-Tone®, and Thaves is just … well, Thavian.
But each and every one of them has a unique wit, and they all make our lives richer.
patrickab7 over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary!
Daniel Aguilar Premium Member over 2 years ago
Here’s to another 30 years! Now that’s entertainment!
onespiceybbw over 2 years ago
What are nuns doing in Hell?
Mary Finkelstein Premium Member over 2 years ago
Happy Anniversary, Wiley! I have read your comic since you started syndication thirty years ago. Keep up the great work!!
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
How do you solve a problem like Danae……?
jandaloft over 2 years ago
Did you hear the one about the nun and the polar bear?
joe.kahl over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary Wiley. Best cartoon ever !!!
AMBER1 over 2 years ago
Classic!
cherns Premium Member over 2 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3b93xk/the_leprechaun_nun/
Amanda El-Dweek creator over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary, Wiley!
unfair.de over 2 years ago
1st week? There’s a copyright mark with the date 2022 and a 2-16 in the same line.
Busted!
tee929 over 2 years ago
Nunsense!
yarnm57 over 2 years ago
The Non Sequitur cartoon right after Comedy Hell, and right before Chef Food-Chain (they originally appeared in reverse order) sports the first Wiley Bear.
MarshaOstroff over 2 years ago
Congratulations in two languages, Mr. Wiley: Mazel tov! and ¡Felicidades!
edeloriea14 over 2 years ago
Happy 30th Anniversary, “Non Sequitur”!
PaulKmecak over 2 years ago
Happy Anniversary, Wiley!! I noticed “earthlink.net” in the 2nd panel. Yup, 30 years.
levekk over 2 years ago
Happy Thirtieth!!
jaz h over 2 years ago
many happy returns!
DaBump Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ah, the true alpha predator. And I get the second one, but I bet if you knew that was your audience with enough time in advance, you could have them in stitches.
Laurie Stoker Premium Member over 2 years ago
Happy anniversary, Wiley!!! ❤️
Don Hulbert Premium Member over 2 years ago
Your uniquely wry wit was always at the forefront; it’s made for a wonderful 30 years. May there be many more.
bakana over 2 years ago
I could post a nasty nun joke, but it’s too long and I’m too lazy.