Peter Kay Joke Mystery
I like Peter Kay, and his cozy comedy of the familiar. But here’s something I don’t get - he won “Best One-Liner” in a tv comedy poll last year for this quip …
“Garlic bread - it’s the future, I’ve tasted it”
Now. I can detect no humour whatsoever in that statement. I’ve even heard it in context on Phoenix Nights and in every one of his live DVDs, and each time my sides remained unsplit. What the hell is everyone finding so funny here that I’m missing? I feel like an idiot.
[And Lord knows why I went with that colour-scheme for this drawing. It looks hideous now that it's finished. It reminds me of the time in Only Fools And Horses when Del Boy painted some guy's kitchen luminous yellow. Then I thought about titling this post "The Golden Boy Of Comedy", thereby providing a justification for the colour, on account of how I'm clever like that. But then I said "F*ck it"]
October 13th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Not entirely sure but I presumed it was from the “Live from Manchester” DVD where he’s talking about his dad or grandad at a wedding reception and doing schtick about cheese cake (”Cheese!? In a cake!?”) and then talks about his dad, having never tasted garlic bread, after tasting it, quipping “Garlic bread - it’s the future. I’ve tasted it.” It’s a pretty good line I thought. Your caricatures are cool. Good stuff.