Linus Gelber
The Bunny’s Back in Town
Nobody in their right mind wants to see an adult man dressed in a blue bunny suit. Happily, this is New York City, which has a significant population of people not in their right mind. So we don’t need to ask why there’s an audience for a man dressed in a blue bunny suit. What we need to ask is this: why does an adult man willingly wear a blue bunny suit?
There are at least two answers. The first involves personal motivations, and there’s no way we can possibly pretend to understand what strange and idiosyncratic patterns of thought would induce a man to don a blue bunny suit and step out onto a stage. The other answer? He does it for us. For us.
It is, in a singularly peculiar way, a selfless and noble act. We all need occasional respite from the ordinariness of our daily lives. We all of us need a bit of entertainment. We all need, now and then, to step outside of our right mind. We all need some equivalent of a man dressed in a blue bunny suit.
And here he is. On stage. For us. In a blue bunny suit. If he doesn’t deserve our thanks and applause, nobody does.
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