iPhones and Comedy Routines in Jimmy O’Hair
October 26, 201211:10 am
Today’s comic strip has the foreign-born Cabo using his broken English to tell Jimmy he has “me-Phone”, when in actuality he has an “iPhone.” The confusion over the correct expression turns humorous for both of them. Even though this is a joke about miscommunication, it’s also another reminder of how technology is omnipresent in our lives. The iPhone just recently came out with another new model, and each design seems to be sleeker and faster than the previous one. Whether it is Android or Apple, smartphones have a lot of capabilities and they have become a lot more involved in the humor of Jimmy O’Hair comic strips. A couple of recent examples had Brooke using her smartphone to take a picture of a cupcake only to have Jimmy swipe and eat the dessert at the last minute. Another had Laticia holding up a smartphone and wondering if there was “an app for tattoo deciphering” when she couldn’t figure out Zeke’s new tattoo. There are sure to be many more strips in the future around smartphones, because they’re such a huge part of our lives and are instruments for humor! By the way, today’s strip also has Jimmy making mention of an “Abbott and Costello” routine. Abbott and Costello were a comedic team that saw the height of their popularity in the 1940s and 50s. Their most famous sketch was “Who’s on First”, which became a circular wordplay around baseball. The answer to “Who’s the first baseman?” was followed with the reply “The name of the first baseman is ‘Who’” and it went on and on – kind of like today’s “me” and “I” with Cabo and Jimmy, which is why Jimmy refers to it. Little did you know that reading Jimmy O’Hair would also give you an American radio and television history lesson!
