Philo@lemmy.ca to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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-squaremessage-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@lemmy.ca to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareeverett@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year 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-squarePhilo@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoWhen you tell a joke, do you ask the hearer to go into another room to hear the punchline?
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year 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-squarePhilo@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoThis is a forum not a comedy club. There was a grammatical pause. See the comma?
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-21 year 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.