Comments on: Every Geezer Here Sent Me This One as a ”Geezer Strip”

By: Endro

Endro — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:22:15 +0000

The joke is that he knows who those actors were and the kid’s only interested in ‘yes’ or ‘no’ maybe?

By: Mitch4

Mitch4 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:59:52 +0000

@Scott: Yes, the contemporary actor does generally go by Edward Norton, at least in official credits. But it’s not too unusual to see him called Ed Norton either.

By: Marshal

Marshal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:44:02 +0000

Can’t remember the channel but Honeymooners is still being rerun as of
just a couple of weeks ago.

By: Donna F

Donna F — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:13:46 +0000

I second Kate C’s amusement and the reason for it.

By: Rasheed

Rasheed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:45:22 +0000

I’m just glad he finally got rid of that thing on his head.

For the record, Honeymooners were still being rerun late at night when I was a kid, but my familiarity with Art Carney at the time was pretty much limited to the time he played Santa when he was trying to avoid artic oil companies. I did make the Art Carney/Edward Norton connection around the time of Death to Smoochy.

By: Judge Mental

Judge Mental — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:14:01 +0000

Well the guy delivering the punchline is in fact a geezer. Does this fact make it *more* of a geezer joke, or, on the contrary, does his preclude it from being a “geezer joke” as defined by CIDU?

By: Kate C

Kate C — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:37:08 +0000

I found this strip funny, not because of the Honeymooners joke (which took me a second but I got), but because of the general tone, the way it captures the many times I’ve seen someone (of any age) make a joke that is so hilariously amusing to them, and baffling to the children around them, who look around akwardly and, like Ruthie does, re-ask their original question.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:29:31 +0000

Oh … I got it right away. I was just thrilled that I didn’t fall into the geezer catagory cause I didn’t send it in

By: Morris Keesan

Morris Keesan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:00:29 +0000

I didn’t send it in either, but I’m enough of a geezer that I had to think for several seconds to figure out who this “Ed Norton” is, and then wondered what happened to Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno.

(and this is not a strip I read, but shouldn’t that be “One Big Happy” and not “One Bog Happy”, in the keywords?)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:35:58 +0000

Hey, I didn’t send it in — does that mean I am NOT a Geezer ?