Not many laughs here, Jerf.
Incidentally, did you ever send our sitcom to the BBC?
https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/4343/
Critique was such fun in those days!
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Quote: JohnnyD @ November 30 2010, 2:38 PM GMTNot many laughs here, Jerf.
Incidentally, did you ever send our sitcom to the BBC?
https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/4343/
Critique was such fun in those days!
I love that thread.
Member with 1000's of postings hurls personal abuse (e.g. "you're a wanker" and "you're shit") at a member with around 300 posts. The insulted member replies with good natured irony.
Result? The '300' member is warned by a moderator for being 'condescending'. 
That thread, like this one, was essentially Jerf's excellent sense of humour versus people who just didn't get it.
Live and let live, guys.
Stop being so condescending you shit wanker!
Quote: Nat Wicks @ November 30 2010, 3:03 PM GMTStop being so condescending you shit wanker!
If you only knew how often I've heard those words. 
Every time you go to sleep?
Stop going off topic.
Quote: Leevil @ November 30 2010, 3:11 PM GMTStop going off topic.
But isn't this just a pisstake thread- or have I got the wrong end of the stick? I wouldn't digressed otherwise!
It's in the Critique forum. Whether it's real or not, we need to maintain some respect for the rules around here.
(sorry)
That's ok. Now go play nice. 
Quote: Leevil @ November 30 2010, 3:16 PM GMTIt's in the Critique forum. Whether it's real or not, we need to maintain some respect for the rules around here.
Quote: Leevil @ November 30 2010, 3:16 PM GMTIt's in the Critique forum. Whether it's real or not, we need to maintain some respect for the rules around here.
You would agree that there is no such thing as universal comedy.
If you need the author to tell you when to laugh, then that piece is not for you.
Although Tim Vine is quite remarkable, apparently he holds the world record for telling the most jokes in one hour. Clever as he is, he is not to my liking, I wouldn't pay to watch him.
My all time favourite is a Scottish comic called Chic Murray, he didn't tell jokes, he just rambled down memory lane. Example....
Chic tells of a time he had slipped on some ice.
A passing woman says,"So you've fallen over then"
Chic replies, "Not really, I'm just trying to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
Written down it looks quite bare, when Chic told it, it was hilarious.
I have no control over the two minute time out.
You would agree that there is no such thing as universal comedy.
If you need the author to tell you when to laugh, then that piece is not for you.
Although Tim Vine is quite remarkable, apparently he holds the world record for telling the most jokes in one hour. Clever as he is, he is not to my liking, I wouldn't pay to watch him.
My all time favourite is a Scottish comic called Chic Murray, he didn't tell jokes, he just rambled down memory lane. Example....
Chic tells of a time he had slipped on some ice.
A passing woman says,"So you've fallen over then"
Chic replies, "Not really, I'm just trying to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
Written down it looks quite bare, when Chic told it, it was hilarious.
I have no control over the two minute time out.
Johny D
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Quote: Jerf Roberwitz @ November 30 2010, 4:12 PM GMTMy all time favourite is a Scottish comic called Chic Murray, he didn't tell jokes, he just rambled down memory lane. Example....
Chic tells of a time he had slipped on some ice.
A passing woman says,"So you've fallen over then"
Chic replies, "Not really, I'm just trying to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.Written down it looks quite bare, when Chic told it, it was hilarious.
But there's a clear joke here, the woman states the obvious and Chic subverts it by claiming that he was trying to do something ridiculous, it's a classic joke structure, something which I can't find in your original post.
Tony Cowards, thank you I have postponed my debut.
I think you have a point.
Would you consider writing a short piece (two mins)
so we new starters can learn.
I am surprised at some of the remarks
Some of you sound like Simon Cowell, unable to sing or dance himself,
demands expert performances from amateurs.
Tony Cowards, thank you I have postponed my debut.
I think you have a point.
Would you consider writing a short piece (two mins)
so we new starters can learn.
I am surprised at some of the remarks
Some of you sound like Simon Cowell, unable to sing or dance himself,
demands expert performances from amateurs.