Here’s one more post from Dave Barry’s Big Trouble:
Bar names, all by themselves can be funny. The Drunken Donkey, The Pint of No Return, and Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge & Tiki Garden. The Jolly Jackal brings an entertaining image to mind. Barry takes it a step further with another one of those exaggerations (and a humorous warning): “That bar..has more AK-47s than Budweisers.”
The weapons overkill is funny. We’ve seen it in gun rooms in the Men In Black, the Mummy, the Matrix, Mr. and Mrs. Black, The Kingsman, Boondock Saints, and lots more. In Big Trouble, Barry just pairs it with a classic American beer and a happy heyena–or a Jolly Jackal.
I’ve been looking for some funny books of late–the kind that make you laugh out loud. They’re hard to come by. It takes more time to set-up the joke in literature than it does with quick visuals or physical humor seen in film and television. Many of us remember Dave Barry’s humor from the 90s and 2000s, so I thought I’d read a couple of his novels . . . and there were definitely some laughs! You can learn more about Barry and his writing in GoodReads. And if you know of any books that made you laugh out loud, let me know!
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