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So the clown walks on stage, everybody's miserable
because
clowns aren't funny.
He walks into a store with a sign that says "Please don't
cough or sneeze." Then sniffs the oversize flower on his
lapel, does the "Ahh... ahhhh..... ahhhhhhh..." pre
sneeze thing and tries to stifle it by
covering his mouth
and then a confetti cannon
in the back of his costume
blows a massive cloud of confetti like some big colorful
fart.
The soundtrack plays a stifled sneeze sound and a massive farting noise.
I don't think there's a person on Earth that wouldn't laugh
at
this.
Is it just me...
https://homeguides....heets-13422847.html
or was the person who wrote the title of this article either very innocent or secretely trying to be funny? [doctorremulac3, Oct 28 2021]
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Well, I'd bet money on this. |
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Actually a better device would be he walks into a
store with a sign that says "Please don't cough of
sneeze." Then sniffs the oversize flower on his
lapel, does the "Ahh... ahhhh..... ahhhhhhh..." pre
sneeze thing and tries to stifle it by covering his
mouth and THEN the confetti cannon thing. |
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Ok, poc, how about that? Would THAT make you at
least crack a smile? It's timely too with the covid
"don't sneeze" poster. |
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C'mon poc, you smiled at that, admit it. |
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(I'm changing this to the main joke, it's better than
the cookie/indigestion thing) |
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Oh well, at least I tried to make you smile. |
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Subtitle makes it funnier. Something like "Color and sound of clown farting". I see this as customary in future Trump speeches. "And I said to him...(waves his arms like a clown pulling people in), crouches a little, farts low and long, then louder, then in really obnoxious bursts. |
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I understand that's a comedian's joke in that, as
you
say, it's not funny but if you can deliver it and
make
people laugh you've achieved an industry standard
challenge. |
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I saw Gilbert Godfree do a pretty good job, he
basically yelled the whole thing and it was
somewhat
interesting. |
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But riddle me this, if at the end of that joke after
the punchline they blasted a stage full of confetti
out of their butt would they get more laughs? I
think so. |
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Hey poc, I just had a "well duh" moment. |
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This is a suprise sight gag, the laughing comes when you get
suprised by this event, not by the description. |
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So yes, saying "clown apprears to blow confetti out of his
butt" is not funny, because it's not a joke. It's a description
of something that when executed, will be funny." |
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If you pick your favorite funny sight gag scene in a movie
for
instance, look at the script. It's not funny, it's the acting out
the scene that's funny. Look at a Benny Hill script. "Benny
Hill is holding a wilted flower - sexy girl struts into room -
wilted flower pops up suggesting an erection " Now is that
funny? No, but the sight gag might make you laugh. (by the
way, I don't know if anybody ever did that, another
original?) |
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So yes, this description is not funny, but it's not supposed to
be, it's not a joke. It's a description of something that
properly executed WOULD be funny. |
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But you'd have to imagine it. I still say this tried before a
live audience would get gales of laughter. I'm going to try to
find a clown to do this in his act. |
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Where you find clowns? Besides in sewers luring kids to
their deaths. |
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You know what they say about if a joke needs an explanation? But since you put it like that the only way to know for sure is a rigourously designed double blind control experiment. |
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This would make a fantastic clown gag! Nice one :-) |
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Re link: No way! Okay, that's stupid, there's no shock value.
Has to have the supressed sneeze. |
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And thank you for being the one to have "clown farting
confetti" in your search history so I didn't have to. |
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Re link: I laughed, very good. Nice blend of funny and creepy. |
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And by the way, mildly disturbing humor is the best. For my
money anyway. |
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Calibration check here, am I the only one who thought this
article "How to get silly putty out of your sheets" begged a
couple of questions? |
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By the way, I was looking for moldible putty sheets for a
prototype process and this came up. |
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And anybody who read that and didn't say "Uh hu. Sure,
that's
your cover story anyway." has no sense of humor. |
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But seriously, why do some people have silly putty stains on
their sheets? How did it get there? Do I even want to know? |
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Not the article, the headline. It becomes unfunny
when you read the article. |
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