Philo to Dad JokesEnglish • 11 months agoMy dentist offered me dentures for only a dollar. It sounded like a good deal at the time, but now I have buck teeth.message-square12fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down15
arrow-up1160arrow-down1message-squareMy dentist offered me dentures for only a dollar. It sounded like a good deal at the time, but now I have buck teeth.Philo to Dad JokesEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoIt’s almost objectively the better way, as it matches the format of a spoken joke where you give the listener a second to think about it and try to “get it.”
minus-squarePhiloOPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoWhen you tell a joke, do you ask the hearer to go into another room to hear the punchline?
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkEnglish0•11 months agoNo, but I give pause to allow them to answer before I deliver said punchline. Comedy is 10% what you say, and 90% delivery and timing.
minus-squarePhiloOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoThis is a forum not a comedy club. There was a grammatical pause. See the comma?
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkEnglish1•edit-211 months agoA forum for the explicit purpose of telling jokes. You know… Like a comedy club? 🤔
It’s almost objectively the better way, as it matches the format of a spoken joke where you give the listener a second to think about it and try to “get it.”
When you tell a joke, do you ask the hearer to go into another room to hear the punchline?
No, but I give pause to allow them to answer before I deliver said punchline. Comedy is 10% what you say, and 90% delivery and timing.
This is a forum not a comedy club. There was a grammatical pause. See the comma?
A forum for the explicit purpose of telling jokes. You know… Like a comedy club? 🤔
Temporally, yes.