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Comedy: May 06, 2020 Issue [#10158]




 This week: Orange You Glad
  Edited by: Annette Author IconMail Icon
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Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana?


Ha. Ha. Ha. That's not that funny. It's the answer to the most pedestrian knock knock joke from the far reaches of elementary school. But jokes involving bananas are everywhere, so you should not dismiss them just because they are childish.

Do you remember that time when cell phones were in everyone's pocket, yet there were still those who thought they had to hold a cell phone by spreading their elbow as far as it could possibly go from their body at an unnatural angle when they were holding such a device up to their ear?
Do you remember when those conversations were so loud that everyone in the room, in the room over, and possibly in the next zip code could hear the whole one-sided conversation?
Do you rememeber when cell phone etiquette had to be taught so that those elbow spreading and loud speaking persons stopped spreading and yakking at least long enough to conduct business with a third person?

I remember.

I remember working in a coffee shop near a university campus. To their credit, the vast VAST majority of university students never showed me theirs or asked me to show them mine.

But that one guy.

You've seen him.

He came into the coffee shop making sure we all saw his cell phone. At the least he made sure we all saw his elbow sticking out from his form and heard all the parts of his converstation.

He stood in line and kept spreading and talking.

It was his turn to order and he kept spreading and talking.

My co-worker picked up a banana that was for sale and held it up to his ear. Of course, he made sure to spread that elbow as far as it would go. He then proceeded to have a loud and engaged conversation with that banana.

I forgot what the banana said, but I remember that guy's face who thought that spreading and talking and not ordering was the kewl thing to do.

Ha!

Now he had to wait until the banana was finished talking.

*Banana*

Moral of the story: Don't let a banana upstage you. And if you do, be glad I didn't say banana. I only talked to it.


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Ask & Answer

I got this reply to my last Comedy newsletter "Born Funny" Open in new Window.

Quick-Quill Author Icon wrote: I feel timing is everything. You can read a joke and it wont be as funny as when it's told with proper timing. There is a guy on AGT who was born with deformed arms. His first appearance on the show was a terrible audition. His jokes were funny, but he was so scared his timing, didn't get many laughs. I was surprised to see him passed on to the next phase. He got help I'm sure and made it into the top 3 at the finals. He's on Champions now and He's got the timing down to a T. Timing/delivery is key. When writing comedy you have to allow for timing in your set-up.

I agree. I wonder though how you set up timing for a written delivery as we are dependent on the reader to time their reading to the tempo of our joke.

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