Thanks so much for your kind words. I knew my friends would get the joke, but I also knew that at Newgrounds a lot of people would simply not be familiar with the original, and hence would miss the whole point. I'm glad it survived the portal process, and that at least a few people understand the bit (since explaining the joke tends to destroy it!) I'm going to try to do more in this vein, to preserve some classic vintage radio comedy bits before their lack of visual content causes them to be lost entirely. Thanks!

Well, see... "Ah, here he is!" *is* the joke. If you've never read or seen or heard of the original play, this won't be funny at all. The play is ALL ABOUT the waiting... the characters hope and fret and discuss and philosophize and wait some more, and Godot NEVER shows up. So the (admittedly obvious) joke here is that Godot actually arrives, he's just running late because of various mundane reasons.

Thanks - I'm glad to know that the dialogue came through clearly, I've heard it so many times myself over the 8 hours of working with it that I just couldn't tell any more. The original source is an analog recording from 1973; I tried to de-hiss it and otherwise clean it up, but everything I tried destroyed its "radio" character in some way and I ended up sticking with the original version I had. Thanks!

Thank you for the feedback. I've performed in a few Beckett plays myself over the years, but have never had the pleasure of tackling Godot.

As far as the cartoon itself goes, I'm working with pre-existing audio, and I think the National Lampoon's satirical take on the play was probably in keeping with the (pause) classical (pause) approach to (pause) staging Beckett of the 1960's. I would love to have seen the late John Belushi tackle this role for real, but such was not to be. My main goal here was to make this classic radio bit accessible to a modern audience by adding some visuals. It's a challenge, because the joke is ultimately simplistic, but only people who are familiar with the play are likely to get it, and they're the ones who would like something more sophisticated. I expect it will draw blank stares from most, but it did survive the portal, so someone out there must get the joke. Thanks!