Comic fiction narrator: Samuel

Comic fiction narrator, wry, timed, and delightful

Prompt: A warm, wry male voice for comic fiction. His bright baritone has impeccable timing, savoring the absurd with a straight face, dry and delightful. There's a trust-me-it-gets-worse mischief in his tone. The sound of a narrator who makes a mundane catastrophe unfold like a perfectly told joke.

Script: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who has confidently told his in-laws he can cook must within the hour set fire to something. Gerald had assumed it would be the turkey. He had not accounted for the tablecloth, the curtains, or his father-in-law's remarkably flammable toupee.