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COMIC RELIEF

By Usama Rasheed
11 November, 2016

I was enjoying my food when a man entered the restaurant where I was eating with a briefcase. I thought he was a politician as his dressing and pot belly portrayed it.

The awkward momentCOMIC RELIEF

I was enjoying my food when a man entered the restaurant where I was eating with a briefcase. I thought he was a politician as his dressing and pot belly portrayed it. He walked and sat down as everybody looked at him. Suddenly a woman came to him and started crying. She knelt down and told him that her children had died of hunger. This man opened the briefcase and gave this woman five thousand dollars. She jumped up and left the scene in happiness. I was still watching when another man started crying and came to him. He knelt down and begged him that he needed money to establish a business. The rich man took out three hundred thousand dollars and gave the money to the poor guy. This time I started murmuring and practicing on the lie I would blow to have my own national cake. I started crying and came to the man. I knelt down and heard, ‘Cut! Cut! Cut!’

I turned and saw the director of the movie laughing. Shame almost killed me.

 

Bad luckCOMIC RELIEF

A woman in her thirties was passing through customs in London when the customs official asked her what the reason for her trip to London was. ‘Business or pleasure,’ he asked?  ‘Sadness and pleasure,’ she said to the officer.

‘Why?’ ‘Well, my 75-year-old husband has just died and I came to his funeral!’

‘My condolences,’ said the officer. ‘It must be a very difficult and painful time you’re going through!’

‘Not really, this is my pleasure! I’m so sad because only now I found out that he was dead broke and did not leave a dime, a penny, not even a will for me!’

 

A bigger problemCOMIC RELIEF

You’ve all heard of the Air Force’s ultra-high-security, super-secret base in Nevada, known simply as Area 51. Well, late one afternoon, the Air Force folks out at Area 51 were very surprised to see a Cessna landing at their ‘secret’ base. They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot into an interrogation room. The pilot’s story was that he took off from Vegas, got lost, and spotted the Base just as he was about to run out of fuel. The Air Force started a full FBI background check on the pilot and held him overnight during the investigation. By the next day, they were finally convinced that the pilot really got lost and wasn’t a spy. They gassed up his airplane, gave him a terrifying ‘you-did-not-see-a-base’ briefing, complete with threats of spending the rest of his life in prison, and sent him on his way. The day after that though, to the total disbelief of the Air Force, the same Cessna showed up again. Once again the MP’s surrounded the plane. But this time there were two people in the plane. The same pilot jumped out and said, ‘Do anything you want to me, but my wife is in the plane and you have to tell her where I was last night!’

COMIC RELIEF