I JUST SAW the funniest thing that has ever occurred in history.
I’m choosing my words as precisely as I can, with no hyperbole. Take any kind of comedy down the entire line of human civilization, in every facet of life, true or not, fiction or non-fiction, intentional or unintentional. Throw it all together, from your favorite Marx Brothers movie to Henry II slipping on a banana peel just before kneeling down in the snow; traveling salesman jokes, Shakespeare, a great pun, seeing an annoying uncle bang his head into the door jamb. Anything at all, real or imagined, however you like it: broad farce, delicate satire, mordant wit, silly slapstick; the funny face, the perfect line, light or dark; Jimmy Stewart slyly winking, or the video of a baby throwing up on the camera. Yes, across the spread of time, from the day Adam woke up, counted his ribs, and realized someone was yelling at him, ’til now, what I just saw is, in my opinion, the out-and-out funniest thing that has ever happened. And it’s real.
