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Its only funny when...

21 Feb 08 - 04:01 PM (#2268853)
Subject: Its only funny when...
From: Donuel

Its only funny when... the right person says it

for example if someone said "What's yer analysis?" its only funny if the person speaking is a urologist.

or

"But I have a reservation!"   its only funny if he is a Native American in full tribal garb.



I need lots of sayings like this for background joke dialog for a screenplay along 'Airplane' lines.


21 Feb 08 - 05:58 PM (#2268976)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: GUEST,heric

"It's only funny when... the right person says it."

Well, technically this applies:

"Patty, I have to lay you or Jack off." Patty: "Can you jack off? I feel like shit today."


21 Feb 08 - 11:07 PM (#2269212)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Dead Horse

"Scissors beats paper!"
(Winston Churchill to Adolf Hitler)


21 Feb 08 - 11:45 PM (#2269225)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: GUEST,Art Thieme

It's only funny when you have a sense of humor!

(That's pretty much a parphrase of my own line: "If you don't have a sense of humor, it isn't funny."

I used it on stage for 35 years. Feel free to take it. that's what folk is all about anyhow.)

Art


22 Feb 08 - 04:39 AM (#2269323)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Cluin

Cary Grant:
"Excuse me, madam, but I believe you're sitting on my penis."


22 Feb 08 - 06:09 AM (#2269355)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: The PA

We had 3 visitors from South Africa I had to make coffee, when I repeated the order back luckily they saw the funny side - 'that one white and two blacks then'.


22 Feb 08 - 08:04 AM (#2269410)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: GUEST,BobL

Mike Harding recalls, on one of his LPs, an occasion when he and his travelling companions were discussing the sort of food back home that they most missed. One bloke from Bradford observed "Ee, I couldn't half murder a bloody Indian", perhaps not the best choice of words seeing as they were on a reservation at the time...


22 Feb 08 - 09:06 AM (#2269478)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: MarkS

Hotel clerk: "Welcome. Do you have reservations?"
Guest: "Yes, but I'll stay here anyway."


22 Feb 08 - 09:15 AM (#2269487)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Grab

British hippie in New York: "Hey man, can I bum a fag?"


22 Feb 08 - 08:50 PM (#2270052)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: McGrath of Harlow

"Is this the way to Ware?"


23 Feb 08 - 12:05 AM (#2270116)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Amos

To Ware what?



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23 Feb 08 - 08:04 AM (#2270235)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Donuel

That Cary Grant thing cracked me up

umm how about George W...

Were in it, to win it (rt wing Applause)
We'll stand down, when they stand up,(less rt wing Applause)
I'm not a lame duck, I'm a game duck.(Cheney promptly shoots him in the face)


23 Feb 08 - 10:01 AM (#2270285)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: McGrath of Harlow

That's Bush using rhyming slang is it?


24 Feb 08 - 12:45 AM (#2270774)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Ross Campbell

"Have you got a map of Ware?"

"A map of where, dear?"

"Yes, that's right."


24 Feb 08 - 01:49 AM (#2270794)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: Melissa

"I can trim your hair..just hop up on the table and lay real still" is probably only funny when an undertaker says it.


24 Feb 08 - 02:39 AM (#2270799)
Subject: RE: Its only funny when...
From: autolycus

"It's ok, I know all about it" is only funny because true when spoken by the Almighty.

   Ivot