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Comedy: September 17, 2014 Issue [#6545]

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 This week: Timing
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“They’re always trying to talk me into, ‘You must have a salad! You can’t have a hot dog for lunch.’ [I say] ‘I’m 90, how old are you?’” ~Betty White


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Recently I read If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't) by Betty White. The audiobook was available from my library, and she read it herself. It's only 2.5 hours, cut into very short sections by topic.

One of the interesting bits in her book, because they're all bits sewn together about things she thinks or has said. During her early life, she worked on timing. She had a husband she couldn't work with that she tried to explain his timing was off on the comedic parts. It was funny, but it could be funnier.

So how do you explain to someone how to find that beat? I've struggled with it. My husband says I'm not funny for the same reason - my timing is off. I could say the same thing about him.

While I'm working on understanding if I'm funny or not, I do know how to make some people laugh. It's a feeling, and it doesn't always translate on the page. Luckily, once we write it down, it becomes easier to tweak it to get the desired effect.

Before you think my husband never laughs, I will say that every single time his stomach is hurting, I become the funniest thing since ... well ... whatever it is you find funny. When he's sick, I'm hilarious without meaning it. I'm still not sure what that says about him, or me, so I'll leave you with a couple of Betty White's sayings instead.

"I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time."

"I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise."

"Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way."


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