Humor Up Monday

Noodling around the net I found some useful links for your humor edification.

Great post by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times regarding telling jokes:

Parrot asks, “What’d the frozen turkey want?”

A joke should have the perfection of a haiku. Not one extra word. No wrong words. It should seem to have been discovered in its absolute form rather than created. The weight of the meaning should be at the end. The earlier words should prepare for the shift of the meaning. The ending must have absolute finality. It should present a world view only revealed at the last moment. Like knife-throwing, joke-telling should never be practiced except by experts.

And this one you just have to see;

Old Jews Telling Jokes

An interesting piece from The Oracle – Henderson State University’s Student Newspaper

Humor Today by Arsala Khan

We follow lots of trends. Obviously, as trends are, well, trendy, they get a lot of attention. There is one such trend that I partake in quite a bit, but I don’t necessarily understand.

As of late, humor in America has taken an interesting turn. Slapstick and sitcom-type jokes are so yesterday, and Americans have found a brand new way to make people laugh: using dangerous, depressing or horrific events and portraying them as comedy.

And this from Jane Lasky in The Examiner

Egg on your face, and that’s no joke when told in the wrong country

I consider myself a person with a good sense of humor but that doesn’t mean I can tell an effective joke. In fact, when I do I fall flat.  I either reveal the punch line too early or I forget what it is by the time I am supposed to tell it, leaving me without the desired effect:  laughter.

Maybe that’s a good thing.

Or to clarify: Maybe that’s a good thing when cavorting with colleagues and friends from other countries.

More later. Enjoy.