So is "The Iceman Cometh" Joke in THE PRODUCERS - I don't get it!

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:18pm

Just make it out to cash! It's a funny sort of name for a play, Cash.... Yeah, so is the Iceman Cometh!

What the hell is funny about this? EXPLAIN, someone!

Thanks! :)

[Kad]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:20pm

I'm not sure what there is to explain.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:23pm

The Iceman Cometh is an odd name for a play. Yet, that was the name.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:29pm

Imagine a man made of ice.

Next imagine that ice man coming.

Next, imagine that he comes in Old English.

[wildcat]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:33pm

Well, now I think we've "jumped the shark"...

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:34pm

You're all sarcastic gay queens. Get over yourselves

[Kad]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:37pm

The joke really IS self-explanatory. I don't know how else to explain it to you. There's nothing to "get", there's no inside reference- The Iceman Cometh is a funny title for a play.

The joke doesn't even land very many laughs. It's a throwaway line.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:38pm

Would you look at your thread title? It doesn't even make sense. The only thing missing to make it more representative of the problems with communication today is the word "literally."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:39pm

Isn't gay queens redundant? And wtf kind of response is that anyway? Are you gay, Musicalpeter?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:40pm

Literally?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:41pm

You are amazing.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:41pm

"You're all sarcastic gay queens."

That sentence is like killing yourself in Buffalo.

[JRybka]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:41pm

He cold have said anything really I guess.....

there are a lot of crazy named shows.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:41pm

So did the Iceman end up coming or not?

And if he did, was it snow?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:42pm

Isn't The Iceman Cometh one of the movies leading up to The Avengers?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:42pm

What's "gay"?

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:42pm

Hold on, taz.

I'll respond. But my mouth is full...

[Kad]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:43pm

Phyllis, it's actually the first installment in the Iceman trilogy.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:43pm

I think it's meant to be ironic.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:44pm

"When I Marry Mr. Snow" is from the musical version, is it not?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:45pm

The remaining installments are:

THE ICEMAN SLIPPETH OUT and THE ICEMAN NEVER TEXTETH BACK.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:45pm

Namo, I think that was actually from "Three's Company: Beginnings"
Updated On: 6/17/11 at 01:45 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:45pm

No, the joke really is supposed to be it's a funny title. Mel Brooks originally wanted to use the much lesser-known Under the Yum-Yum Tree, but was talked out of it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:46pm

Don't sit under the yum-yum tree, with anyone else but Mel B.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 6/17/11 at 1:47pm

Did the Iceman cometh under the yum-yum tree?