They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree - but who knew that Gavin Strachan was such a comedian?
Celtic first team coach Gavin, son of full-time funnyman and occasional football manager Gordon Strachan, had me in stitches twice last Monday, firstly by suggesting that the Bhoys could still win the Scottish Premiership title, and then attempting to justify the club's disastrous sojourn to Dubai.
To be honest, only the first bit was truly hilarious. Celtic's chances of a record-breaking 10th successive title disappeared long before their failure to defeat Hibernian a week ago.
Never-say-die Strachan - in charge of the team last Monday while manager Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy were self-isolating - nevertheless declared that "there's a lot of football to be played and you never know what might happen."
It would have been even more hilarious had his punchline been "sure there's always 'null and void', so start praying now!"
That, however, was only the warm-up.
When asked if the trip to Dubai - which ended with 13 players and three of the coaching staff quarantined - was a spectacular, ill-advised own goal, Gavin mused: "It's something we've done several times over the last few years and it has yielded very positive results."
Gavin will no doubt go on to suggest that 60,000 fans should cram into Celtic Park from now until the end of the season because "that's what the club is used to at this time of the year".
The unfunny irony - well, at least no one at the soon-to-be-deposed champions is laughing - is that the player who tested positive for Covid-19 was French defender Christopher Jullien, who was nursing a long-term injury and shouldn't even have been in Dubai but tagged along anyway.
This was not an 'elite training' exercise but a mid-season jolly.
Belatedly - and after initially releasing a statement showing no remorse - the club accepted, via the recorded words of chief executive Peter Lawwell, that the desert jaunt had been a mistake and profoundly apologised to Celtic fans for the catastrophic consequences.
This should not be enough to keep the 61-year-old in his £1.2m-a-year (plus bonuses) job.
Lawwell and Lennon are responsible for turning what was meant to be an historic season into another one-horse race - but this time not involving them - and both are now the proverbial dead men walking.
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The implosion has only recently happened, but it's been coming for a long time; the tens of millions wasted on terrible players, the embarrassing performances in Europe and now the capitulation, with barely a whimper, to rejuvenated champions-elect Rangers.
There have been three Celtic managers since Rangers last won the title and all three have kept the club comfortably top of the tree.
They've been champions 15 times out of the last 20, although you suspect their bankrupt rivals' demotion had a lot to do with that otherwise impressive stat.
But with an income 30-times greater than some of their Premiership opponents, top dog in Scotland is surely the least Celtic fans could have expected.
Brendan Rodgers oversaw three successive Trebles but also an eye-watering, unsustainable wage bill that was meant to (but didn't) fuel the one-time European champions' ambitions of becoming a continental powerhouse again.
We now know that this supposedly unassailable fortress was, like Dubai, built on sand and it disintegrated after the old enemy's first genuinely sustained assault.
But, because of the culture of arrogance, inherent complacency and sense of entitlement that prevails at Celtic Park these days, seemingly no one except the soothsaying supporters saw it coming.
The spectacularly-overpaid Lawwell's time has come.
If half the highly-paid players are muttering out loud that they no longer want to be there, whose fault it that? Decline may have been inevitable, but Lenny was in the driving seat when the wheels finally fell off.
He couldn't even get the apology right, augmenting it with the spurious claim that Celtic were the Scottish club "most affected" by the pandemic.
Why, because they had every advantage imaginable and now they don't?
It's hard to imagine that a shrewd operator such as club owner Dermot Desmond would allow such poor management - and such a lack of self-awareness - in any other aspect of his business empire.
Personally, I'd fire him for the chronic lack of self-awareness as an expensively-assembled squad pointlessly exposed itself to the risk of Covid-19 infections while needlessly chasing middle-eastern sun in the United Arab Emirates - which, ironically, was added to the UK's travel quarantine list the day after the Hibs match.
The subsequent, collective myopia and tone-deafness with regard to the bigger picture was breathtaking while, at the same time, sadly typical of a club used to getting its own way.
The ill-fated Dubai trip, which technically didn't break any laws but figuratively flew an Airbus through the spirit of them, was enthusiastically sanctioned by the Scottish Professional Football League, who even rescheduled the Hibs match to accommodate it.
The miffed Edinburgh club's late equaliser in the 1-1 draw against a depleted Celtic brought more than a hint of schadenfreude from the rest of the Premiership.
As for Lenny - subject of angry fans' protests outside Celtic Park late last year - there are few people from that side of Glasgow championing for him to stay on.
Regular readers of this column will know I predicted the end was nigh after the Lurgan man rounded on the press for highlighting Celtic's shortcomings rather than looking a little closer to home for them.
Recruitment in Lenny's second term (Vasilis Barkas, Hatem Abd Elhamed, Boli Bolingoli, Shane Duffy, Greg Taylor...) has been poor, and you can say the same about overall discipline.
If half the highly-paid players are muttering out loud that they no longer want to be there, whose fault it that? Decline may have been inevitable, but Lenny was in the driving seat when the wheels finally fell off.
Winning the delayed 2019-20 Scottish Cup, and thus completing the 'Quadruple Treble' in December, will look good in the history books and on his managerial curriculum vitae.
But that (and being 21 points behind Rangers in January), won't save him from the inevitable overhaul demanded by supporters who are now feeling cheated, disillusioned and short-changed.
Lenny's replacement? Eddie Howe. Next question?
The coaching staff in general will surely be swept out later this year but, with his sense of humour, Gavin Strachan will surely get opportunities on the comedy club circuit.
He has already played his part in making the football club he works for a laughing stock.
