You think you're so clever, making a pun on a Shakespeare play (& referencing something your wife has taken to saying when the pets do something funny) & then you check on it. You discover (naturally) that this simple-to-make pun has been used probably since the first critic of the play.
"Master Shakespeare's new play is not so funny; indeed, one might call it a comedy of terrors!" - The Stratford-On-Avon Times
Check it out: it's a horror film with Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, & Vincent Price (using the article "the" instead of "a"), & also a Bollywood film that has a little infamy because it was sued by Warner Brothers for apparently ripping off Harry Potter (although it seems to have mostly ripped off Home Alone). Plus it's an eBook & also someone wants to make it a role playing game. Now it's the title of one of my dumb blog posts!
Shakespeare's play is about two twins separated at birth that end up in the same city & hilarity ensues. The Comedy Of Terrors is about an undertaker who kills people to get more clients. Wouldn't it have been more fun to have Karloff & Price be two killers who were separated at birth? A real opportunity was missed there.
I can't imagine there'll be much comedy in my show this week, or do I mean terror? There are quite a few songs about mummies (it's my Halloween show!) & a lot of them are novelty tunes. I suppose I'll talk about that a bit more as the week wears on.
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