I made a rather sanctimonious post a few days ago about what constitutes comedy – but I should add that the one group of people I’m happy to make an exception for is lawyers. You know the sort of thing: “What’s the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?” “One of them’s a scum sucking pond dweller – and the other one’s a fish.”
Do you remember that case from a couple of years ago? The lawyer who claimed insurance for his Cuban cigar collection, which were slowly destroyed over a number of years by “a series of small fires”? (Only in America!) The insurance company sued him for fraud, but he actually won the case on a point of law. Crazy. Of course, the insurance company immediately turned around and sued him for arson, so all’s we’ll that ends well I guess. Hope he got a smacked bottom over that one.