Black and Seated

The joke plays on the tragic image of Stephen Hawking, a famous physicist who used a wheelchair, and the dark humor of a house fire turning him black. It combines a well known person with an unfortunate and shocking situation for comedic effect.

• Steven Hawking
• Chair
• Black
• Fire
• House
• Tragedy

• What's black and sits on the bottom of the stairs to the cellar? Steven Hawking where the experiments went wrong.
• What's black and sits at the top of the stairs? Stephen Hawking during a house fire.
• What do you call a person that can't operate a wheelchair? Stephen Hawking.
• How do you execute Stephen Hawking? The electric wheelchair.