Hotel mini-bar items are usually very expensive. American comedian Rich Hall said:
“A hotel mini-bar allows you to see into the future and what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020.”
It’s uncertain when Rich Hall first use the line. It appears in a 2001 book, and Hall said it at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006. For further tellings of the joke, the date of 2020 must be increased to a time many years into the future.
Wikipedia: Rich Hall
Richard Travis Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as Fridays, Not Necessarily the News (popularising the “sniglet” neologism), and Saturday Night Live.
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How to Be Funny:
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A hotel mini-bar allows you to see into the future and what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020.—Rich Hall
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A hotel mini-bar allows you to see into the future and what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020. - Rich Hall
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Rachel Bruce
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“A hotel minibar allows you to see into the future and what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020.” - Jack Dee 😊
7:46 PM - 25 Aug 2009
15 January 2010, The Sun (London, UK), pg. 10:
A HOTEL mini-bar allows you to see into the future and what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020.
- RICH HALL
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jools fairbank
@fairyofthenorth
The hotel minibar allowd me to see into the future…i now know how much a can of coke will cost in 2020.
7:05 AM - 2 Jun 2010
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The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said
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A hotel minibar allows you to see into the future and what a Pepsi will cost in 2020. —Rich Hall
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splitty
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A hotel minibar allows you to
see into the future and find out what a can of Pepsi will cost in 2020.
Comedian Rich Hall
7:28 AM - 4 Apr 2018
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