7 Hilarious ‘Far Side’ Comics With the Worst Puns

Some of Gary Larson's best Far Side comic strips featured a purposefully bad bit of word play, which was further proof of Larson's genius One of the best possible recipes for comedy is to have incredibly dumb characters written by incredibly smart people. Homer Simpson, for example, has often been written by Harvard-educated writers staffed at The Simpsons. Fry on Futurama is the same kind of character, as is Michael Scott from The Office, and basically every character on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.