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Humour is a weapon - so you better learn how to use it

Started by Cain, July 16, 2008, 06:44:39 PM

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Jasper

#15
July 20, 2010, 08:06:56 PM
Oh, hell yes.  I don't think I ever saw this.

The Wizard

#16
July 20, 2010, 08:26:04 PM
 :mittens: :mittens:

This is amazing.
Insanity we trust.

Triple Zero

#17
July 23, 2010, 11:04:23 AM
Oh yes, this is a good one.

Cain, you can be proud of it, this is one of those essays whose lessons I still remember quite often.
Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

INFORMATION SO POWERFUL, YOU ACTUALLY NEED LESS.

Cramulus

#18
July 23, 2010, 04:30:07 PM
Cain, permission to repost @ 23ae?

Hoser McRhizzy

#19
July 23, 2010, 08:26:53 PM
Printed.

This was an awesome read, and really useful.  Good bump!
It feels unreal because it's trickling up.

Brotep

#20
July 24, 2010, 06:34:56 AM
This is excellent.

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Stand-up in particular is more a funny man doing material than a man doing funny material.  To a degree, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.  The man who is delivering the material is funny, therefore his material must be funny too.  This identity/rhetorical sleight of hand is not always true, but it is worth remembering and considering.  Delivery is key, and cannot be understated.

I work with the developmentally disabled. There are a couple of characters who like to trash talk, but they don't make any sense. Nevertheless, their delivery carries such defiant gusto that the other clients invariably burst out laughing.

Jasper

#21
July 24, 2010, 06:41:07 PM
Yeah, just imagine any performer taking Emo Phillips' material and trying to treat it like comedy.  It would suck.

Emo makes it comedy by being Emo.

BadBeast

#22
July 27, 2010, 12:10:40 PM
Even the most Despotic of Medieval Kings understood this, and had their Court Jester. His job was to remind the King that nothing, and no-one was too grand, or sacred to have the piss ripped out of them now and again. 
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Jasper

#23
July 27, 2010, 07:59:23 PM
I think more likely it gets old having your ass kissed by everyone.
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