You know what the most important thing in comedy is? Timing.

For this trick, you need a cat and an audience — I used my own cat, and Lins was the audience. Pick up the cat, and hold it in a manner the cat finds slightly uncomfortable. How slightly? Just enough that cat doesn’t miss its cue — this works best with cats you’re familiar with (see the most important thing in comedy for details). Now, feed the cat your straight-line:

I wonder if it’s latent fish DNA; “I don’t want to be here anymore!”

The cat, right on queue, flails its tail around, either because you’re holding it weird or it detests being used as a plot device in bad melodrama (the joke works either way).

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