Someone tells you a joke. It’s a
good one. So you laugh, obviously. Others
have a good laugh too. You laugh because the joke seems funny to you, primarily
because you have never heard it before. Till this point, all is well with the
human race and its kind. Probably barring a few with loose bowel motions and blocked
toilets …
The next day, he tells you a joke
again. Your instinctive reaction is to laugh. You haven’t even digested the
punch line yet, but the smile is already there on your stupid face. Maybe because
your face isn’t the only part of you that’s stupid …
But wait, you’ve heard this one
before. His band of castrated followers is already in roaring splits of
laughter, congratulating their leader on his impeccable sense of humour,
clapping at the very novelty of the idea behind the joke, and wiping away tears
wrenched out of their eyes from laughing so hard.
And so it goes … day in and day
out. He repeats the same jokes at every opportunity that he gets to open his
mouth. The jokes soon become cruel. The neutered men laugh. The women laugh too,
obviously. You give in, and laugh along with them. What a way to benumb your brains,
and that too without any help from recent movies starring Salman Khan.
And you wonder, maybe this is how he castrated
the others who then joined his coterie. By repeating his same stupid jokes to
them every day.
With all due respect, your jokes,
as Venus Williams once rightly said, “... are like my penis, everybody has
heard about it and they laugh uncontrollably. It's not so funny after it's
shoved down your throat daily, though.”
Edit: Obviously, Venus Williams didn't actually say that. I was kidding.
Serena did.
