Kamal Ghorui
Punita Punrani, the president of HAHA – Humour And Hasimazaak Association – called an Extraordinary General Meeting of the organisation to order.
“Comrades in qualms,” began the president, in keeping with her signature style statement that the pun is mightier than the bored, “we’re meeting today, under the looming threat of a war waged against us by the most powerful individual on Planet Earth, and, for all we know, in the whole of the Milky Way.”
“To compound the crisis,” continued the head of HAHA, “the individual waging war against us isn’t even aware that he’s doing so. Indeed, he seems oblivious to our existence, which makes him literally an existential threat, which will make us as extinct as dinosaurs and dodos both combined.”
“I know what you mean,” agreed Jess Terr, a lampoonist from London. “I’ve pink-slipped myself after realising I can’t possibly out-lampoon somebody who’s a walking, talking lampoon himself,” she added gloomily.
“Ditto that,” chimed in Won Lyna, a stand-up comic from China.
“My stand-up act can’t stand up to his stand-up act with its punchlines, which knock mine clean out of the ring.”
“You’re right,” glumly said Saar Donique, a satirist from Stockholm.
“How can you satirise someone, who in his very person embodies satire itself, and is pure funny bone, from heel to head? An alt avatar of absurdity personified,” he added.
“What beats me,” interjected Harley Quinn, a clown from Ireland, “is how can one single, solitary person represent the whole cosmos of clowning around, from slapstick to sarcasm, facetiousness to farce, badinage to buffoonery? And the worst part of it is that unlike all of us, who have to work at it, it all comes to him more natural than breathing. It requires no thinking on his part. How does he do it?”
“Simple,” explained the HAHA president, for once too overwrought even to pun. “It’s thanks to his use of AI.”
“AI as in Artificial Intelligence?” asked Jo K’mara, a comedian from Nigeria.
The president of HAHA corrected him. “AI as in Absolute Insanity.”
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