The bit before the actual beginning…
‘Never trust a man who, when left alone with a tea cosy, doesn’t try it on.’
Billy Connolly
An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walked into a bar. The barman looked them up and down and said, ‘Is this some sort of joke?’
All gags started like that in the 1970s and 80s. They were hilarious, until we found out that they were actually lazy, stereotypical, racial slurs. Who knew? Alternative comedy brushed these tired olde worlde jokes aside, so we had to come up with something different.
Which is fine by us because nobody tells jokes any more. It’s all about stories, and our story didn’t start like that. There was no Irishman. And no bar. There was an Englishman and a Scotsman, but they met in a café ...
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