Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
First degree jokes are puns, wordplay, and overly literal use of words. I breathe these kind of jokes because they are mostly innocent, playful, or silly, and I have raised two children to their teen years, and first degree jokes were fairly safe.If my daughter asks me how my day went, I might reply, “fine.” … Read more
Hearing him discuss jokes in this methodical, analytical method gave to me one of the greatest zen-like moments of my life. Suddenly, all the reasons something I said had been funny made sense.
John Cleese mentioned that he subscribed to the Henri Bergson theory of laughter.
I was the “Jokemaster” at yesterday’s Toastmasters meeting, and I decided to write original jokes rather than read something from the Internet. I bombed pretty thoroughly. My first joke was this: “the Finance Department announced that our retirement money is fine, but if you had a 401K it is now a 5K. If you want … Read more
I went to see “MacGruber”, the recent movie that spoofs the 80s icon TV show “MacGyver”, and hated it. It was deeply flawed. It was almost to the point of my wanting to gouge my eyes out, but not quite that bad. I did walk out because I didn’t give a rat’s ass how it … Read more