Silver tongs holding a gold coin above a plum velvet cushion with gold tassels.

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Jack Paar

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

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Our interpretation.

Jack Paar is teasing a comfortable old saying about poor people having more fun. Notice who repeats it, he says: the rich. The joke is that the claim flatters those who don't have to live the poverty they're romanticising.

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