‘The Wizard of Id’ Explained
Parker and Hart, Nov. 12, 2009, via comic.com.
Something bad happened to the Wizard’s brother-in-law, and now the Wizard has to go the to the opera with his wife because his Brother-in-Law cannot use the tickets. The Wizard is so ego-centric and caught up in his own crap; he thinks he is the only one with problems - attending the opera is a fate worse than death - while completely ignoring the fact that his Brother-in-Law has an injured back!
It is funny more in the ironic sense than in the sense that suggests hilarity, and it speaks to all of us.
Notice the appropriate use of a semi-colon to separate two independent clauses up there?
