Molly the capable, was a clown school failure

and a disgrace to the good people of Cupertino

Molly wasn’t funny.

Molly from Cupertino.

Molly expected to be funny.

Her expectations for herself made her less funny.

At Phillippe’s clown school, being funny was the status game at play.

Pleasure is the king of my school. Philippe Gaulier

Funny no matter what she did, Molly, she wasn’t funny.

Molly was used to status.

In the classroom, Molly had none. In the court of the Cafe, she had outrage. She had a virtue game to play.

Molly attempted a status game with Phillippe. She complained about problematic jokes when mocking the students. Phillippe mocked her stupid virtue game. We all laughed.

And the people that Phillippe was mocking?

They were all laughing too. We were in clown school. There, we had one singular sacred status granting rule: Be funny. Experience pleasure. Share it.¹

Molly would frequently say things like

This kind of stuff would not be ok in Cupertino

She said this while holding a baguette under her arm, had a bottle of red wine in her hand and punctuated the statement with a lon…