Jun 3, 2019 06:49 PM
Other night someone brought over a game they’d purchased and we decided to give it a go. The game was called Cards Against Humanity. It’s a fill in the blank game where the answers are supplied from a huge deck of cards. Some answers are quite vulgar, contain profanity or are just ridiculous. Anyway the answers given are rated for their humorous effect.
It was my turn to read the answers supplied by the players for this comment, paraphrasing: Broadway is about to put on a new show called __________ , the musical. I’m reading and for one of the answers I started laughing well before I actually said it out loud. This answer had me in stitches and I can’t figure out why.
The answer card had one word written on it. It was Auschwitz. There isn’t anything funny about Auschwitz but seeing it in front of the two words ‘the musical’ had me in hysterics, a real genuinely deep belly laugh. The only reason I can think of why I thought it was funny is because it seemed totally absurd to me. Who in hell would write a Broadway musical entitled Auschwitz?*
Am I alone? The only person who finds absurdity funny?
* I checked it out later and a camp survivor actually penned a musical piece re Auschwitz but not what we might regard as a Broadway production, at least IMHO.
It was my turn to read the answers supplied by the players for this comment, paraphrasing: Broadway is about to put on a new show called __________ , the musical. I’m reading and for one of the answers I started laughing well before I actually said it out loud. This answer had me in stitches and I can’t figure out why.
The answer card had one word written on it. It was Auschwitz. There isn’t anything funny about Auschwitz but seeing it in front of the two words ‘the musical’ had me in hysterics, a real genuinely deep belly laugh. The only reason I can think of why I thought it was funny is because it seemed totally absurd to me. Who in hell would write a Broadway musical entitled Auschwitz?*
Am I alone? The only person who finds absurdity funny?
* I checked it out later and a camp survivor actually penned a musical piece re Auschwitz but not what we might regard as a Broadway production, at least IMHO.