My OperaOver My Head
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:19:44 AM
Friend: Hey did you hear about the Japanese guy who married a pillow?! wtf? Jap people are weird...
Me: Yeah, I hear that guy invented pillow talk.
Friend: ...
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Me: Did you see the game? That was intense!
Friend: Please don't tell me <insert sports team here> lost
Me: okay...their score tally was insufficient to be greater than the score tally of the opposition.
Friend: ...
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Friend: There are 10 types of people in this world, those who get this and those who don't.
Me: No, actually there are 3 types of people in this world, those who can count and those who can't.
Friend: What? I can count, it was just binary...
Me: I know...and the joke is I can't count!
It bugs me when things go over someone's head...people need to understand the many faces of humor...not the blunt trauma of screaming really loudy and repeating quotes from family guy. There's a time and a place for that, but there needs to be a delicacy, and finesse to comedy, even the blunt and sarcastic, snarky comments need a graceful delivery. The way you deliver a joke is just as important as the concept of your joke.
While I can't claim to be a comedic genius or have any type of comedic intellect, I do have my moments, and when my flashes of brilliance strike, they seem to go over everyone's heads. One day...someone will get me and then we will start a band, like flight of the conchords, but less successful, and less music.....and less jokes....and probably no band.
Me: Yeah, I hear that guy invented pillow talk.
Friend: ...
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Me: Did you see the game? That was intense!
Friend: Please don't tell me <insert sports team here> lost
Me: okay...their score tally was insufficient to be greater than the score tally of the opposition.
Friend: ...
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Friend: There are 10 types of people in this world, those who get this and those who don't.
Me: No, actually there are 3 types of people in this world, those who can count and those who can't.
Friend: What? I can count, it was just binary...
Me: I know...and the joke is I can't count!
It bugs me when things go over someone's head...people need to understand the many faces of humor...not the blunt trauma of screaming really loudy and repeating quotes from family guy. There's a time and a place for that, but there needs to be a delicacy, and finesse to comedy, even the blunt and sarcastic, snarky comments need a graceful delivery. The way you deliver a joke is just as important as the concept of your joke.
While I can't claim to be a comedic genius or have any type of comedic intellect, I do have my moments, and when my flashes of brilliance strike, they seem to go over everyone's heads. One day...someone will get me and then we will start a band, like flight of the conchords, but less successful, and less music.....and less jokes....and probably no band.
