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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Sorry this is now so off the thread topic. But your argument in post #41 and the quote above (that the difference between a humorous offhand post in this thread about a nefarious lawyer keeping a back-up copy and Johnny Carson telling jokes about the President) seems to imply that jokes can only be told by professional, certified comedians. That just seems nuts to me.
If I am wrong, please do clarify what you meant. |
Completely nuts.
All I meant was that random/off-the-cuff comments are not always readily identifiable as humorous to all readers/listeners. You introduced the subject of comedians casting aspersions, to which my argument is that comedians (generally) get away with it because they know what they're doing.
Take Kenny for example, who obviously agrees with you have I've taken this all too seriously. And yet I ran into much the same problem, but reversed, with Kenny some time ago. I remember it well because I even wrote a poem about it as a sort of apology (see the relevant thread in the Writer's Corner). Context is important, and we sometimes say things that can be interpreted in ways we did not expect.