You ever get that? You read something or see something stupid or amusing whilst bathing in a lake of monotony and an unexpected laugh makes its way up the throat only to denied like a red headed love child at the very end. The end result being a half supressed guffaw that comes off as “gmpfff!” making the amused party seem like they struggle with basic respiratory concepts. The point is, I got that today after my eye caught a quote whilst I was checking my gmail account (I always figure that when google’s targeted advertising starts throwing funny quotes at me it really has no idea what it’s supposed to sell me). The quote was from Henny Youngman and read:
“I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.”
Unapolgetically cringeworthy. Something about the blatantless of such a faceatious pun makes me feel warm inside. It seems that comedy these days always has to have a theme, frequently political. I think that’s perhaps why I appreciate Japanese “manzai” comedy so much. It’s pure, simple and agenda free. I think I just don’t like social commentary, commentary should be reserved for sports and rifftrax only methinks
I was previousy unaware of Henny Youngman, more’s the pity as he’s now very much dead. It seems he was an old school one-liner comedian, and in spite of the fact that his material is all very dated (wife jokes and the like), you can’t help but appreciate the purity of a well delivered one-liner. That’s what comedy needs these days, more one-liners and less Dennis Leary (what can I say? He’s just not funny, anyone can be angry at anything).
I didn’t really have anywhere I was going with this truth be told. I’m just bored and using this as an excuse to suspend any pending study I should be doing.
In related news: Going to Theo’s house tomorrow to pick up a big stack of AGoT CCG cards. I’m undoubtedly becoming a giant nerd in my late 20’s, to the extent that I appear to be wearing socks with sandals today.
Nothing is creepier than a guy who wears socks with sandals. I have to keep checking to see I haven’t cultivated a massive professor beard since I came to school.
