Howie the Hyena

It’s been really hard trying to be the comic of my cackle. Everyone thinks everything is funny even when it isn’t. It’s like us hyenas can’t tell the difference between a good joke and a bad one, we just laugh at anything. Recently, I’ve been trying to brush up on my jokes. All the other guys in the enclosure that proclaimed themselves to be comics only seem to crack jokes about our prey. I’m sick and tired of hearing the story about that one time Reggie found a lizard and the little guy was so scared of Reggie’s laugh that he ripped his tail and scurried off. That isn’t even funny, or a joke! Lizards actually can lose their tails and carry on throughout their daily life without a care in the world.

God, I wish I could try my material on the cackle, but no one cares what I have to say. A couple of months ago one of the workers here at the zoo was taking care of our enclosure. He was cleaning by the rocks when he happened to sit down and take a break. I noticed this because he kept talking to himself while he was reading some sort of book. I snuck over beside him in order to get a closer look and realized the title of the book was “Observational Comedy For Dummies” and that’s when I knew my chance to excel at comedy was within reach. I called over to Reggie (the self-proclaimed cackle comedian) and told him to gather everyone near the rock that the worker was sitting by. Obviously Reggie agreed since his ego is bigger than the Hippo butt in the enclosure next to us. I knew that if I got enough of us near him while listening to Reggie’s “jokes” everyone would burst into laughter and scare away the human.

And just like I had planned, the minute all twelve of us gathered around Reggie we busted out laughing scaring the worker so much he dropped his book and left the enclosure. Ever since that day I’ve been working really hard in perfecting my stand-up routine. So far I’ve only wowed Rocko the Rooster, but that’s probably because he’s a total idiot. Not to worry though, I’ll soon be having a Netflix special about my experience here at the zoo, because let me tell you it’s anything but ordinary.