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10-31-2008, 05:56 PM | #101 |
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If you are saying it happened to you and it didnt its a lie.....
Slinger really why are you so technical sometimes? It was funny...hes joke was funny. So what if didnt use Standard Jokes 101......who does? Jokes have evolved pass the "Knock, Knock" phase..... Your trying to tear this funny moment apart...why? if you aren't attempting to pass it off as true, and the audience knows it is only a story, it isn't a lie. by your definition, all works of fiction, from books to movies, are lies. no they aren't, they are just stories. seriously, it isn't about joke telling 101. but for any joke to work, it has to accomplish the same thing all jokes do, and this one doesn't because he messed up the title. I'm sure most of you guys would be surprised to know I am pretty much the funniest person most of my friends know, and when I was in college I wrote a comedy screenplay that placed in a major screenwriting competition, so I know a little about comedy. not that I am trying to tout that as some sort of authority, just to show that I am not as humorless as you may think I am. |
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10-31-2008, 05:58 PM | #102 |
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that's good.
because he blew the joke with the thread title, dammit! am I the only one who cares about the sanctity of telling jokes?!? has the world gone mad?!? if you aren't attempting to pass it off as true, and the audience knows it is only a story, it isn't a lie. by your definition, all works of fiction, from books to movies, are lies. no they aren't, they are just stories. seriously, it isn't about joke telling 101. but for any joke to work, it has to accomplish the same thing all jokes do, and this one doesn't because he messed up the title. I'm sure most of you guys would be surprised to know I am pretty much the funniest person most of my friends know, and when I was in college I wrote a comedy screenplay that placed in a major screenwriting competition, so I know a little about comedy. not that I am trying to tout that as some sort of authority, just to show that I am not as humorless as you may think I am. |
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10-31-2008, 06:02 PM | #103 |
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10-31-2008, 06:03 PM | #104 |
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10-31-2008, 06:16 PM | #105 |
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10-31-2008, 06:21 PM | #106 |
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I don't think gunslingercbr is arguing taste in humor. Obvisously we don't all laugh at the same jokes, and you can argue all day whether something is funny or not. What I think he means is that the joke is not a joke but rather a prank, which is designed to fool someone into belief whereas a joke relies on irony. If a comic says "I was really mad when I found out that my girlfriend had an abortion without telling me. She could have at least asked me if I wanted to keep the skull," that's irony. The audience initially assumes that he's mad at his girlfriend for doing something terrible, not because he didn't get to be apart of it.
The thread poster on the other hand wasn't being ironic because he gives all these examples of his wife's deception, then basically says he just wants to know whether he should take his bike back to the shop. I thought it was weird and confusing but didn't want to be the first to call "Bull S@#$", so I responded sincerely, as did Bravestarr, who really got lambasted for it, which just made the whole thing more annoying. The ending is certainly unexpected and contradictory, but it's not ironic in the traditional sense that jokes are told. Rather it's the equivalent of putting plastic wrap on a toilet bowl and laughing at the person who pisses on the wall. Ok, you got me, I didn't look before pissing and now I'm wiping down the wall. Haha! |
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first you have to have a good sence of humor(finding things funny) before actually being funny,and since you totally went of the deep end over the title its a fair assumption that you dont have a good sence of humor. humor isnt always telling jokes and there is no technical way of being humorous. if an old lady slips and falls on a patch of ice,its no less funny if she falls foward and not backwards(since technically if someone is moving in a foward motion,they have to fall backwards)either way its funny as hell.
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I don't think gunslingercbr is arguing taste in humor. Obvisously we don't all laugh at the same jokes, and you can argue all day whether something is funny or not. What I think he means is that the joke is not a joke but rather a prank, which is designed to fool someone into belief whereas a joke relies on irony. If a comic says "I was really mad when I found out that my girlfriend had an abortion without telling me. She could have at least asked me if I wanted to keep the skull," that's irony. The audience initially assumes that he's mad at his girlfriend for doing something terrible, not because he didn't get to be apart of it.
The thread poster on the other hand wasn't being ironic because he gives all these examples of his wife's deception, then basically says he just wants to know whether he should take his bike back to the shop. I thought it was weird and confusing but didn't want to be the first to call "Bull S@#$", so I responded sincerely, as did Bravestarr, who really got lambasted for it, which just made the whole thing more annoying. The ending is certainly unexpected and contradictory, but it's not ironic in the traditional sense that jokes are told. Rather it's the equivalent of putting plastic wrap on a toilet bowl and laughing at the person who pisses on the wall. Ok, you got me, I didn't look before pissing and now I'm wiping down the wall. Haha! |
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I don't think gunslingercbr is arguing taste in humor. Obvisously we don't all laugh at the same jokes, and you can argue all day whether something is funny or not. What I think he means is that the joke is not a joke but rather a prank, which is designed to fool someone into belief whereas a joke relies on irony. If a comic says "I was really mad when I found out that my girlfriend had an abortion without telling me. She could have at least asked me if I wanted to keep the skull," that's irony. The audience initially assumes that he's mad at his girlfriend for doing something terrible, not because he didn't get to be apart of it.
The thread poster on the other hand wasn't being ironic because he gives all these examples of his wife's deception, then basically says he just wants to know whether he should take his bike back to the shop. I thought it was weird and confusing but didn't want to be the first to call "Bull S@#$", so I responded sincerely, as did Bravestarr, who really got lambasted for it, which just made the whole thing more annoying. The ending is certainly unexpected and contradictory, but it's not ironic in the traditional sense that jokes are told. Rather it's the equivalent of putting plastic wrap on a toilet bowl and laughing at the person who pisses on the wall. Ok, you got me, I didn't look before pissing and now I'm wiping down the wall. Haha! |
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