Don’t forget your towel

Daily writing prompt
What makes you laugh?

Excursions into the improbable. It’s the way that people look at life that reveals the absurdity of existence. We are highly improbable beings and that’s best approached with humour.

I’m not all that original. I’m going to celebrate the HHGTTG[1]. When it was first broadcast, I clung to the radio, wondering what imaginative excursion it would take us on next. It’s a jigsaw puzzle of abstract ideas that surround a wacky plot.

Why is it funny? Radio has a wonderful way of forming pictures in the mind. The creation of Zaphod Beeblebrox takes a bit of getting one’s head around. Notice what I did there? Such a mad romp of absurdity opens huge vistas of comic horizons. Cosmic even.


[1] The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction created by Douglas Adams.

Unknown's avatar

Author: johnwvincent

Our man in Southern England

One thought on “Don’t forget your towel”

Leave a comment