Today's Andy Capp Strip

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Psst - Tarks... Andy Capp's in the Mirror.

Psst yourself! He was talking about Beau Peep.

[Malc]

One of my hobbies is second-guessing other peoples work after they've done it.
I reckon the flo/aerobics gag works this way too.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

What a very annoying hobby!

[Mince]

What a very annoying hobby!

I don't think so. As I said before, it fascinates me how someone can make a living by sitting on his backside all day and dreaming up cartoons.

How someone arrives at a gag is interesting but irrelevant to whether the end result is funny.

I have noticed that often Roger makes me laugh not with something new, but with something old said in a different way.

[Malc]

Yes, it is very annoying, but that's half the fun.

The secret is to make sure the other person has done all the hard work, then step in and offer "improvements" in a "you don't wanna do that" voice.

[Mince]

Do you mean like what we did with your smoke-signal gag?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

There is a robotic arm element to all of this. Peepsie, Malc and Roger will know what I mean, but no-one else will. That's another annoying thing, isn't it?

[Malc]

Do you mean like what we did with your smoke-signal gag?

....and my Frankenstein gag and just about anything else I've put up.

Having said that, I do post willingly, asking for opinions and expecting at least some jolly japes from you funny rascals, you.

[peter]

Do you mean like what we did with your smoke-signal gag?

....and my Frankenstein gag and just about anything else I've put up.

Having said that, I do post willingly, asking for opinions and expecting at least some jolly japes from you funny rascals, you.

And you get them in spades.

[The Peepmaster]

I thought about the robotic arm, Tarks.

[Mince]

Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.

Oh, but I can guess.   

[peter]

Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.

Now we go back far far back to the angry cupboard

[The Peepmaster]

Actually, it reminded me of the angry cupboard with the bad hairdo. Colin, Tom and peter will know what I mean, but no one else will.

Now we go back far far back to the angry cupboard

Peter! You didn't used to lock Mince in the cupboard, did you?




Well done.

[Malc]

I used to threaten my kids with the cupboard. Most people overhearing would think I was a monster, but "the cupboard" meant that I shut myself in and my kids used to cry for me to come out.