She’s planning on giving birth and then cutting her baby in two???
Related
16 Comments
Or it’s a physiological side effect of being pretend-sawed in half repeatedly.
Or it’s not supposed to make sense, it’s just a riff on ‘2’.
A typical way to perform the trick is to have two people. What better than twins?
I think Wayno thought that since a trick involves cutting a woman in two, it’d be funny if she were pregnant that the baby would be cut and two and be two babies, in other words twins.
Wayno obviously didn’t think hard enough.
I thought this one is a repeat, but clicking on the “wayno” tag and coasting back to February 2018 didn’t turn it up, so if I’m right, then it must have been before the Comicgeddon.
Did she saw the zygote in half herself? Ee-yikes.
Yeah, I think this is one of those cases where the illogic is staring you in the face, but that transparency makes it not matter, and just leaves the funny.
I hope Brian in STL is right. I fear everyone else is.
I had the same thought as Brian in STL. He’s excited because twins will make his magic trick easier.
There are a number of variants of the trick. Here is a diagram of the version I mentioned.
I saw this as simpler than the rest of you. It’s just a cute way of telling your magician husband that you’re carrying twins without being blatant. His reaction is just what any man’s might be, and has nothing to do with eventually using the twins in his tricks.
The most bizarre sawing-a-person-in-half act of all time involved the identical twin brothers Robert and Johnny Eck and the magician Rajah Raboid. Robert was full-size and Johnny had no legs. You may have seen him in the movie “Freaks.” Anyway, during Raboid’s act, Robert would start heckling him from the audience. Raboid would bring him up to the stage and challenge him to be sawed in half. A third person in the act was a very short person fully encased in pants. Johnny and this person were substituted for Robert, and the audience saw someone’s lower half running around the stage chased by his yelling and protesting upper half.
Arthur might have it, if she moved the boxes apart. From the stance, that might be the case.
I feel like it’s supposed to be a two-layered joke, where Arthur’s interpretation that it’s just a cute way to announce twins is supposed to be funny because it lies on the majority interpretation that it’s about getting two babies by cutting them apart.
The joke is ruined, for me, by the fact that Brian in STL is right. I mean, in theory the joke could be “yay, we can have twins who were raised a contortionists in our act’ AND keep it in the family.”, but that’s not a funny enough joke for me to believe that that’s what was intended.
Re: Mark in Boston (31-Jul-2019, 7:59 PM)
Kevin James did something like that on America’s Got Talent, Season 2 (2007):
It’s this simple. This magician doesn’t use a trick with two contortionists in one box to do the trick. No, he’s a back-to-basics magician… he saws her in half, then magically reattaches the two halves back into one lovely and talented assistant.
However, apparently, the magic has unanticipated side effects when the lovely and talented assistant is assisting-for-two, so to speak, and while the magic does reattach the two halves of the assistant, the little bunny-in-the-oven is split in half and remains two separate people after the trick is over.
And this is where we need Red Green to show up and extoll the virtues of “the handymagician’s secret weapon, duct tape!”
Comics I Don't Understand 
Or it’s a physiological side effect of being pretend-sawed in half repeatedly.
Or it’s not supposed to make sense, it’s just a riff on ‘2’.
A typical way to perform the trick is to have two people. What better than twins?
I think Wayno thought that since a trick involves cutting a woman in two, it’d be funny if she were pregnant that the baby would be cut and two and be two babies, in other words twins.
Wayno obviously didn’t think hard enough.
I thought this one is a repeat, but clicking on the “wayno” tag and coasting back to February 2018 didn’t turn it up, so if I’m right, then it must have been before the Comicgeddon.
Did she saw the zygote in half herself? Ee-yikes.
Yeah, I think this is one of those cases where the illogic is staring you in the face, but that transparency makes it not matter, and just leaves the funny.
I hope Brian in STL is right. I fear everyone else is.
I had the same thought as Brian in STL. He’s excited because twins will make his magic trick easier.
There are a number of variants of the trick. Here is a diagram of the version I mentioned.
I saw this as simpler than the rest of you. It’s just a cute way of telling your magician husband that you’re carrying twins without being blatant. His reaction is just what any man’s might be, and has nothing to do with eventually using the twins in his tricks.
The most bizarre sawing-a-person-in-half act of all time involved the identical twin brothers Robert and Johnny Eck and the magician Rajah Raboid. Robert was full-size and Johnny had no legs. You may have seen him in the movie “Freaks.” Anyway, during Raboid’s act, Robert would start heckling him from the audience. Raboid would bring him up to the stage and challenge him to be sawed in half. A third person in the act was a very short person fully encased in pants. Johnny and this person were substituted for Robert, and the audience saw someone’s lower half running around the stage chased by his yelling and protesting upper half.
Arthur might have it, if she moved the boxes apart. From the stance, that might be the case.
I feel like it’s supposed to be a two-layered joke, where Arthur’s interpretation that it’s just a cute way to announce twins is supposed to be funny because it lies on the majority interpretation that it’s about getting two babies by cutting them apart.
The joke is ruined, for me, by the fact that Brian in STL is right. I mean, in theory the joke could be “yay, we can have twins who were raised a contortionists in our act’ AND keep it in the family.”, but that’s not a funny enough joke for me to believe that that’s what was intended.
Re: Mark in Boston (31-Jul-2019, 7:59 PM)
Kevin James did something like that on America’s Got Talent, Season 2 (2007):
It’s this simple. This magician doesn’t use a trick with two contortionists in one box to do the trick. No, he’s a back-to-basics magician… he saws her in half, then magically reattaches the two halves back into one lovely and talented assistant.
However, apparently, the magic has unanticipated side effects when the lovely and talented assistant is assisting-for-two, so to speak, and while the magic does reattach the two halves of the assistant, the little bunny-in-the-oven is split in half and remains two separate people after the trick is over.
And this is where we need Red Green to show up and extoll the virtues of “the handymagician’s secret weapon, duct tape!”