There may be nothing in the world that is more of a recipe for failure than trying to

explain somebody else's joke, but I'm going to do it anyway.

There's the comedy sketch show on Netflix, it came out a couple years ago, it's offensive,

it's funny, the insert that is clamor here, we've all got different tastes, different things

are funny, different thresholds of defensiveness, make good choices about what you watch, whatever

we can all get along, it's going to be fine.

There is this one sketch that they do on the show where Tim Robinson, he's an SNL alum

and another SNL alum, what's their name, Cecily Strong are together as a couple and they

go out to a club and there's a magician there and the magician is asking for a volunteer

from the audience and Tim's like, oh, me, me, me, and he calls Tim up there and then he

clowns him a little bit, he's like, all right, where's the ball, nope, it's in your pocket,

how'd they get in your pocket?

What do you do when you lie into me?

It's just how those things go and it's uncomfortable as those things always are uncomfortable because

I know for all of you, it's like clowns, clowns is a big thing to be afraid of now, I have

no fear of clowns, I don't know, they just are what they are.

Magicians on the other hand, horrify me and not because I think they're going to sneak

into my room at night and murder me or hide in the gutters around my street and abduct

children.

No, they horrify me because they're walking social awkwardness, they put everybody in

an uncomfortable situation where if you don't get tricked by it, nope, it's not a trick,

it's an illusion, Michael.

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