At the same time, the funnies themselves face an uncertain future; newspapers suffer from declining readerships, and the readers of comics today are more often adults than kids, which doesn't augur well in an age of zingier youth attractions like MTV and PlayStation.
And the odd non sequiturs and quirky exchanges are often funny in themselves.
Both these things are funny in themselves and then their meeting on Main Street is also funny.
The ridiculous situations, the constant saving of each other from frightful danger, aren't, surprisingly, meant to be funny in themselves.
This two-character piece of fluff, now playing at Penguin Rep in Stony Point, starts with some premises that are funny in themselves.
Back in the '90s, they should be told, Mr. Myers was without peer in a challenging and intensely competitive pursuit: the manufacture of comical catchphrases that, while not especially funny in themselves, would call forth peals of knowing laughter when repeated out of context.
And they were bizarre and funny in themselves, but they lived in a vacuum.
Ever hear of people being rejected for being honest or funny about themselves?
Others, fancying themselves funny: "Free Huma".
