30 Hilarious Signs Posted By This Restaurant Make People Do A Double Take (New Pics)

Laughing is as ingrained in our day-to-day lives as the need to hydrate. But whilst you’re fueling your body with one, you’re fueling your essence with the other. If we’re to add in another layer of fuel—aka food—then what we’re talking about today would class as a full-blown charging station, specially built for humans.

It has drinks, it has great Tex-Mex food, and it has jokes that welcome you to the corner of West 5th and Campbell in Austin, Texas. The restaurant, named El Arroyo, is a Bored Panda favorite place; we’ve covered the wonderful marquee sign messages that the restaurant has become famous for more times than the Earth has gone around the Sun. 

But as with any good thing in life, we just can’t get enough. So here we go again, dear Pandas, and as you continue this little voyage, let me talk to you about the essence of comedy itself. 

Comedy is everywhere you look. In music, in films, in series, in theater, on the pavement, in the sky… At its core, its main purpose is to incite laughter and amusement, and, as an entertainment medium, it has been successfully doing so since the Ancient Greeks. The tone is light and satirical, and the story always ends well, at least by the classic literary definition.  

What makes one person laugh could potentially make another turn to look at them in horror. The subjectiveness of the medium cannot be understated, yet Alyssa Maio, a screenwriter from New Jersey, believes that there are a few techniques that make a joke, or punch line, all the more appreciated by the majority of the audience. 

According to Alyssa, timing is everything. The way a comedian delivers the punch line, or how actors deliver their lines, can affect the way the audience responds. Good timing builds anticipation. Talking about anticipation, what we expect to happen (or not) greatly twists the narrative and intrigue. It’s especially hilarious when whatever happens is completely random. And finally, comedy is best when it’s relatable, slightly tragic, and when it acts as a means of dealing with the complexities of real life. 

However, this kind of comedy is difficult to write. Alexi Duggins argues that it’s often more difficult than drama, but the art form is rarely given its fair share of credit. He says: “Crafting laughs is the most high-stakes form of creation. It is intrinsically difficult, as ‘funny’ varies from person to person in a way that ‘sad’ or ‘romantic’ just doesn’t.” 

Furthermore, he states that comedy is part of the human experience. What does that mean exactly? Well, according to The School Of Life, comedy offers us a way of having a better time around things that feel pretty disastrous when we think about them seriously, such as the purpose of our meager existence.