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Comedy: October 16, 2013 Issue [#5943]

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Comedy


 This week: Potentially Funny
  Edited by: THANKFUL SONALI RIP BIKERIDER Author IconMail Icon
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About This Newsletter

There was some tension - but it had the potential to be hilarious!


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Letter from the editor

Hallo, Readers!

This topic for the Comedy Newsletter is inspired by my Dad.

He and I went for a play recently. Usually, we book our tickets well in advance - and, being among those rare folks who don't use any online system of payment, we actually go in person to pick up the tickets - days in advance. (It helps that our favourite theatre has a really good cafeteria!)

But last week, a friend recommended a play very highly. Her call came on the day the play was on. So we decided to be brave - and go to the theatre an hour early, minus tickets, and hope that someone cancelled and we could see the show.

It being a really popular play, there were six or seven people ahead of me, waiting for someone to cancel. The guy at the counter told me that everyone who had booked tickets was showing up, and if anyone didn't show, there were others who would get the tickets, I had very little chance. I stood in queue at the counter anyway.

Dad, meantime, was waiting near the elevator.

The bell rang for the auditorium doors to open. The farsighted folks who already had tickets started entering, and picking their seats.

Dad called out to me.

Impatiently, I walked up to him, afraid of losing my place in the waiting queue.

As I neared, he winked and signalled. We had tickets! Someone who had booked in bulk for a big group had a couple of dropouts, and, catching sight of Dad standing there, had offered him the tickets.

We thoroughly enjoyed the play. We ate at the cafeteria after.

"Phew. That was way too much tension," I remarked to Dad, as we ate. "We go back to our usual system from now on."

"Tension? I kept thinking how funny it was."

"Funny?"

"Yeah. What if those people had offered me the tickets just at the same time as your turn came in the queue, and the guy told you you got the tickets? That would've been funny. From no tickets to too many tickets in one easy step."

"Hmmmmm."

"And then you had to find a way to give away those extra tickets and you got confused about whether you wanted to give tickets or get tickets or what ..."

"Hmmmmmmm."

"Or what if they had an old guy in the cast, and he got such a bad attack of stage-fright that they had to replace him at the last minute, and they spotted me standing near the elevator and asked me to take the role? From no tickets to being in the play ... that's funny."

I was laughing now - not at the situations per se, but at my Dad, for thinking them up. (As witticisms go, these were pretty lame, but I laughed just the same!) "Dad, you are SILLY." I said, between giggles.

"But you're laughing." He looked smug. "You were reliving the tension a minute ago and now you're laughing so hard you got mango juice up your nose."

He was right.

"It's not high-class sophisticated comedy ..." He wasn't apologetic, and he didn't need to be. Yes, they weren't the best jokes in the world, but they had me giggling when I'd been in a tense frame of mind.

And that got me thinking - if only we could turn every tense situation into a comic one - what a lot of material we'd have to write 'comedy' about!

So the next time I'm stuck in traffic, or trying to locate exact change at the grocery store, or whatever - I'm going to try and look for the comedy in the situation.

Never mind if it results in lame jokes, it'll still make me laugh instead of fretting!

Thanks for reading,
Sonali

PS - Here's a view of the cafeteria!

The cafeteria at our favourite theatre.


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O wow, your last NL WAS a while ago! Here's hoping you're back more often, very interesting topic view. Amazing how analyzing the everyday can bring about new thoughts and ideas. - A*Monaing*Faith Author Icon

Hi Sonali! I chuckled at the little girl's line because kids say funny things! But your NL's right - people stating the obvious or the non-obvious is silly. It reminds me of oxymorons, like: larger half, clearly confused, act naturally, alone together, found missing, liquid gas, deafening silence, and seriously funny. Thanks for the great NL! *Delight* ~ Laura - LJPC - the tortoise Author Icon

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