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baywax
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Looks like the Greeks had one up on Monty Python.
This may be offensive to some people since the Greeks used a slave instead of a parrot in their comedy sketches.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081114/odds/odd_us_comedy
If anyone has any really old comedy links or texts... like ancient Egyptian/Sumerian/Indian etc.. Humour... please post it here!
"Ancient Greeks pre-empted Dead Parrot sketch"
This may be offensive to some people since the Greeks used a slave instead of a parrot in their comedy sketches.
By Daniel Flynn
ATHENS (Reuters) - "I'll tell you what's wrong with it. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it."
For those who believe the ancient Greeks thought of everything first, proof has been found in a 4th century AD joke book featuring an ancestor of Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch where a man returns a parrot to a shop, complaining it is dead.
The 1,600-year-old work entitled "Philogelos: The Laugh Addict," one of the world's oldest joke books, features a joke in which a man complains that a slave he has just bought has died, its publisher said Friday.
"By the gods," answers the slave's seller, "when he was with me, he never did any such thing!"
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081114/odds/odd_us_comedy
If anyone has any really old comedy links or texts... like ancient Egyptian/Sumerian/Indian etc.. Humour... please post it here!
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