{"id":1305,"date":"2012-04-13T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2012-04-13T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:41:02","slug":"stav-the-gagmeister-par-simon-parke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"‘Stav the gagmeister’ par Simon Parke"},"content":{"rendered":"

La Blague : the joke<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Some days at work are better than others,’ as Plato probably said, and for me, today was about Stav and Sumo. I will leave you to decide if it was one of the better ones.
\nStav is loitering close by. This can only mean one thing – he has a joke to tell me.
\n“OK, Stav?’ I ask.
\n“I suppose you’d better hear it,” he says.
\n“Ah.”
\n“Yes, the jokemeister cometh.”
\nI make every effort to look interested, as he moves forward and traps me by the oranges. Once here, he is like a priest in a pulpit – suddenly and undeservedly powerful.
\n“Well, the rest of the store is cracking up over this one,” he says, “and I wouldn’t want you to miss out.”
\nI’d love to miss out, to be honest. Missing out is really underrated.
\n“I’d surely never recover,” I say.
\n“It seems to be my duty in life to amuse the troops,” he adds wearily: “The troubadour of the aisles.”
\n“Mmm.”
\n“Oh well, keeps ’em happy, I suppose.” He wants some affirmation here, but I can’t manage it. Instead I wonder what the joke will be today. It was the one about the disabled prostitute yesterday, and he may simply have forgotten he’s told me – and tell me again…
\nTo be continued…<\/p>\n

Taken from ‘Shelf Life’ by Simon Parke (www.simonparke.com<\/a>). Available from amazon.co.uk (www.amazon.co.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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