The audience didn’t seem to get that one at all. A monster who was so dumb he thought he should wear a dinner jacket! It’s hilarious! Who could have even noticed that the monster wore a jacket, and that was weird, other than Jerry, with his brilliant comic observational skills? But nobody laughed. And then he went on to add more detail j…
The audience didn’t seem to get that one at all. A monster who was so dumb he thought he should wear a dinner jacket! It’s hilarious! Who could have even noticed that the monster wore a jacket, and that was weird, other than Jerry, with his brilliant comic observational skills? But nobody laughed. And then he went on to add more detail just so they’d get it, with the above quote, “I’m sorry…jackets only this evening.” And still no laughs. I get that these kids might not know who Shelley Duval is. But Frankenstein? Surely the image of the monster in the jacket is pretty well known?
The combination of subtlety and blatant absurdity in this just so, so funny. Who the hell notices that the monster was wearing a sport jacket anyway? I immediately had a vision of the monster confronting a restaurant hostess…insanely funny.
The audience didn’t seem to get that one at all. A monster who was so dumb he thought he should wear a dinner jacket! It’s hilarious! Who could have even noticed that the monster wore a jacket, and that was weird, other than Jerry, with his brilliant comic observational skills? But nobody laughed. And then he went on to add more detail just so they’d get it, with the above quote, “I’m sorry…jackets only this evening.” And still no laughs. I get that these kids might not know who Shelley Duval is. But Frankenstein? Surely the image of the monster in the jacket is pretty well known?
The combination of subtlety and blatant absurdity in this just so, so funny. Who the hell notices that the monster was wearing a sport jacket anyway? I immediately had a vision of the monster confronting a restaurant hostess…insanely funny.
I know! But then once you hear the joke and are reminded that the monster wore a jacket, you wonder why you never noticed it before! It’s brilliant!