Explaining the BIP to normal people

[Cramulus]

I think a good premise is one of the keys to funnay. Like how the principia's premise is religion - it uses a lot of religious symbolism and imagery and dressings as a disguise to present its message.

I think coming up with a good premise is much easier than thinking of the joke itself.

Like what if we wrote lollercaust in the format and layout of a high school social-studies text book
or a pop-psych self-help book
or an instruction manual
or as if is correspondence between two condescending martians talking about humanity's problems
or it's a disappointed journal entry written by time traveling ancient greeks
or some shit like that

[Jenne]

Well, there's always the prison ITSELF.

[Triple Zero]

intergalactic time-space travelling stand-up comedian that arrives at earth looking for new material (on his home-planet also known as "the LULZ--and whoever controls the LULZ, controls the empire, a fact well-known by everybody who is anybody in the imperial comedy circuit)

at first he uses his mind-control powers to incite the LULZ like a skilled troll (opportunity for some illustrative thought experiments/mind games) but after a while he notices that he doesn't even need to push this earth-species because they continuously cover themselves and eachother in LAILAISE (providing oil for the Machine to both to run on and grease the gears) --opportunity for pointing out painfully obvious funny troofs once the reader has been hooked with the "ah that's other people" fun stuff in part 1 gets confronted with a mirror.

then the space-time-troll gets hit by a collateral orbital strike and an EPIC BATTLE WITH HIMEOBS ensues (with explosions and tentacles), just before the earth would almost be destroyed  by the Mother Of All Orbital Strikes, the alien and HIMEOBS central command notice they have similar goals, do one final near-fatal JAKE, saving the human race (sort of) and providing the timetraveller with the LAILAISE-fuel he needs for going back in space to do his gig, and later sends HIMEOBS some supplies through space and time, which, because they got sent to a few years in the past now turned out to have been Tubgirl and Goatseman and part of the famous HIMEOBS prop.

[LMNO]

Sounds like a good synopsis.


Get to work.

[Triple Zero]

sorry but i'm probably not going to work that out because it will take me about half a day of focussed work to do it. you can still have all my good ideas though, since they come somewhat random anyway.