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[johnny9fingers]

I need jokes, and wit.
I'm a joke junkie, I suppose.
While others breathe more serene airs and are content with placid, I need the hard stuff....the slaying line; the arch response; the gasp of vulgarity; the juxtaposition of absurdities. These are my psyche's balm. My heroin substitute: my sex substitute substitute.
Subordinate repetition will sometimes suffice: but for the love of a laugh why can't I find anything funny at the moment? Why is it all so damnably serious?
Is anyone else feeling it or is it just my own personal descent into humourless imbecility? Or if I wanted to be poncy: extrinsic or intrinsic. I'd prefer it to be the latter, even though misery loves company.

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Barry Crier's favourite joke (he has a certain pedigree...)

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

A man driving his car runs over a rooster in the road and kills it. He sees a nearby farm, so he takes the dead bird and knocks on the door, a woman answers.
"Is this animal yours ?" he asks,
"Yes," she replies looking at the corpse.
"I just ran it over, would you let me replace it ?"
"As you like, the chickens are out the back..."
She closes the door and goes back to her business.

Re: Barry Crier's favourite joke (he has a certain pedigree...)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Haha. (Not certain which, but it brought a smile to my face.)

[kdotdammit.livejournal.com]

Well I was going to write a long comment, but then decided I should just post my own entry in response to this -- http://kdotdammit.livejournal.com/1061377.html

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I checked it out and smiled. Much obliged.

[towith.livejournal.com]

The last joke I heard:

What's the difference between Madelaine McCann and Pope John Paul II?











The pope died a virgin.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Erk. Don't know what to say.

[towith.livejournal.com]

Just makes sure you don't repeat it in front of a TV camera. You'll get lynched.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I try to limit my telly appearances. I mean, the public, my dear...
But that must be the most tasteless joke of all time. Impossible to say how much offence it gives and how many different taboos it violates. I may have to edit it out of my blog for fear of offending anyone reading: as my blog is, like my life, pretty much an open book.
Cognitive dissonance occurs when the desire not to offend and the rights of free speech interact, especially when dealing with humour.
I'm lost in a loop.
Well, at least I now have a moral dilemma to think on.
You can always be relied upon to do something unsettling. I don't know whether to say thank you or not.
Anyone else any comments?

[towith.livejournal.com]

I giggled like a school girl all the way through this comment.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

So pleased. Happy to entertain. Ergo both of us have been successful.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's not a moral dilemma, but a dilemma nevertheless.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, leave it there. Anyone who is offended wants to be, and therefore you have made them happy. Anyone who is not offended is not a problem.

M

misery loves company

[e4q.livejournal.com]

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/14

i recommend you stop what you are doing and spend the next 2 days watching this back to back.

Re: misery loves company

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

One of the few TV shows I rated. Big fan of Bill, Dylan, and Tamsin...Tamsin...mmm, Tamsin. (I always go for the mad ones.)
Anyway, why would I want to watch reruns of a slightly more glamorous and interesting version of my life...
...oh soddit, I'll probably do it.

Re: misery loves company

[e4q.livejournal.com]

well, i can only tell you that watching them all back to back, obviously the other characters are, and remain, stuck but you get to see the quiet genius of the manny character. he having swallowed the little book of calm in episode one...

[(Anonymous)]

Knock knock
Who's there?
Interrupting cow
Interrupti...
Moo!

Well, it makes H laugh.

M (I'll get my coat)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

'I say, I say, I say: what is the essence of good comedy?'
'I don't know what is the es....'
' ....timing.'

Re: I have a couple

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Dead Baby jokes, see Aug 15th http://johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/62088.html
But due to my squeamishness (and other's cultural and aesthetic objections) I'm not continuing with this thread without a certain amount of self-censorship.