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Thread #59650   Message #955440
Posted By: Sam L
19-May-03 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where do jokes come from?
Subject: RE: BS: Where do jokes come from?
Yes, again, I do write jokes. I write the jokes that make the young girls cry, I write the jokes I write the jokes.

You can take any funny thing somebody said, or something that happened, and usually re-frame it as a story-joke. It's just packaging. Such as--

   I read that Jerry Lewis does an annual seminar on Laughter and Healing with a Dr. Kuhn from here in Louisville. As it happens, I know a Dr. Kuhn here, and I wondered if he was the Dr. in the article. But the Dr in the article was a psych, and the Dr. I know turns out to be an anasthesiologist or something.

    But by coincidence, it turns out the guy I know does a different seminar, on Incestuous Pedophilia and Healing, with Jerry LEE Lewis. There are indications of theraputic benefits derived by marrying your under-age cousin. But there needs to be further study before such treatments can be made available.

   My jokes aren't terribly good, but I do write them, constantly, and they do get repeated, but often they are tailored to a particular frame of reference, need more packing and explanation for a general public. If I can remember some I'll post more.

Here's a meta-joke, joke about jokes, I wrote. Not too good, but a cumpulsive exercise.

Guy goes into a bar, everybody is at the far end of the room, bartender ignores him. Guy says Can I get a drink? Bartender says Sure.

Guy waits awhile, sits there by himself, everybody is standing on the other side of the room. He calls the bartender Hey, can I get a drink? Bartender says, yeah, I'm sorry. See, thursdays we have free drinks. We mix up a bunch of stuff in a punch, free. I can get you whatever you order, but the punch is free if you want it. Guy says I'll try it, sure. Bartender says okay, walks off, ignores him again.

So the guy says Hey, look, I don't get it. I ask for a drink, and you just walk away. And why's everybody standing over there on the other side of the bar? What is this, a joke? Bartender says Yeah. And that's the punch line.

sorry.