You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.