Philo@lemmy.ca to Dad Jokes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 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-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down14
arrow-up1154arrow-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 · 8 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareeverettlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 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-squarePhilo@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·8 months 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-down1·8 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-squarePhilo@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoThis is a forum not a comedy club. There was a grammatical pause. See the comma?
minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-28 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.