It’s Monday, which means it’s time for your weekly dose of locavore levity: the Joke of the Week! This week’s joke comes from Montpelier’s Maggie Lenz. Take it away, Maggie…

I am much better at caring for cats than caring for houseplants. Cats are basically just houseplants that can find their own water. If ferns could drink out of the toilet … well, then I’d still have a fern.

About That Joke

Says Lenz: I kill plants. It’s that simple. Cats, however, flourish under my “care.”

Meet the Comedian, Maggie Lenz

Maggie Lenz Credit: Courtesy of Maggie Lenz

Maggie Lenz cohosts Sideshow, a monthly comedy and B-movie spectacular at the Savoy Theater in Montpelier.

See Her Live

Lenz will compete in the 2017 Vermont’s Funniest Comedian contest in September at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington.

Think you can do better?

We’re always looking for jokes from local comedians. We publish one joke each week, and you can read through previous ones here.

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Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to...