Enjoy your night in Tunisia

The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro strip of 6/26: (#1) He’s a good man, who’ll give you hot licks on his saxophone while lavishing care on your car during your dinner; enjoy your night in Tunisia, light on the harissa (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page) A complex joke pun on the name of the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker (Wikipedia entry here), in which the Charlie Brown character from the comic strip Peanuts is presented as a valet parker. Music and food. From the above, a Charlie Parker lurch to “A Night in Tunisia”; from Wikipedia: “A Night in Tunisia” is a musical composition written in 1942 by American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie that has become a jazz standard. Dizzy wrote it while he was playing with the Benny Carter band. … Charlie Parker’s recording of 28 March 1946, for Dial Records, features Miles Davis on trumpet and includes the “famous alto break” that became synonymous with Parker. (Parker’s composition…