[Ads-l] the Good News Bad News joke routine

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

wondering about when it became a formula, as part of a look at a Rhymes With Orange strip in which two cartoon memes (Desert Island and Grim Reaper) are combined:

6/27/19: The Desert Island Reaper:

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/27/the-desert-island-reaper/

(the good news is that a boat is coming to the desert island; the bad news is that it's being steered by the Grim Reaper)
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