So, Jeff… tell me, what bothers you this evening?
Percy, to be honest, I feel like something is missing. I can’t think of a single thing to say that would be funny.
And it’s important to you to be funny?
Well, duhdoy. It is virtually my identity. I am the funny guy. If not for that, what am I?
Well, you are also a pretty good detective, y’know.
Pssh. Everyone is a good detective, Perce. Solving crimes, helping people, progressing society… these are all easy tasks. But as a funny human, I give people laughter. Do you know some call it the best medicine, this laughter? Never heard a similar thing about “detecting”. It’s probably not even in the top 10 medicines.
See! That was reasonably funny. You twisted a known aphorism into its literal roots and then poked fun at it. Many find that funny.
That’s the point, Percy. I have done that. Repeatedly. It has become stale. I have become predictable. Jumble around with some idioms. Failing that, poke fun at the superhero trope. When that does not work, resort to getting meta, and get self-referential, like that is going to make me funny suddenly.
Won’t it?
I dunno man, I feel like a hack when I overdo it. But I am out of inspiration.
You know you have more value than being funny right?
Let’s leave that talk for my therapist. Just let me vent okay?
Yes, I’m sorry. Go on. Why is getting stale a bad thing?
Unsure. It’s like my taste in humour constantly evolves. Something is funny to me because it made me go “Ah! I did not see that coming”. And then I become addicted to that type of humour, and I keep going at it. Over. and over. and over. Until I see it coming. And then I outgrow that brand of humour.
It would be fine if this was spaced out over years, but 2-3 years back, I became comfortable with my tag of being a funny human, and have double-downed on it. I find something funny, and I squeeze the shit out of it. It made me outgrow Tim Minchin of all people! I found James Acaster less than a year back, and I might outgrow him soon at my current rate of addiction to his content, and I do not find anything funny anymore, including myself.
Wow… That got…real. You think getting real and making it awkward for the readers might make you funny?
Unsure. Was just thinking about the serial murderer from last week, who would kill people he felt awkward around, and I found it hilarious. Write what you know, right?
Sure Jeff. I gotta go talk to Margaret, my wife, whom I am mentioning to make it sound like I am a character with a backstory, and not just a plot device for your rant, to give you the ability to tell your friends that like all other posts, this too is “fictional” if needed. Always have an out, am I right?
You get me Perce. You get me. Peace out.
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