Nepenthe Posted:
his douchebaggery – it’s over 9000! isn’t that what one says in such situations?
and the plot of far too many movies from my childhood – from Mad Max to early Steven Seagal – is replayed except for than zombie. I don’t remember than zombie. Maybe it was the punchline and I missed it.
To fully understand comedy you must also be part of the culture that produced the comedian, or at least, well conversant with it. Comedy translates badly. Culture clashes form over its misunderstanding.
If you (as a post-adolescent or so-called adult) ‘get’ Junie B Jones, you don’t necessarily also ‘get’ Hard Gay, even though both crack up nearly every 7 year old. Those same 7 year olds usually don’t ‘get’ Lenny Bruce or the Seinfeld show. Comedy’s not a monolith.
all I see here is one-upmanship verbal slapstick with a touch of scary movie style parody. it’s hella entertaining, because I ‘get’ the genre and so on, but it’s kind of wearing too, like a reality tv show. amusing but full of suck, makes me need to go read something funny but deep, just to remind myself not all comedy is quite so shallow Log in to see images!
I’m going to spill the secret.
What me and others were doing in this thread were doing are distorting and bastardizing playground taunts. Things calling the other person ugly, or poor, etc. The jokes originally took the form of ‘yo momma’ jokes, except with a twist.
‘YO MOMMA SO FAT SHE DIED OF A HEART CONDITION THAT WAS ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE’
And then evolved
‘YO MOMMA SO STUPID AND UGLY SHE TRIED TO SEDUCE A COP OUT OF A TICKET BUT INSTEAD HE RAPED AND KILLED HER’
‘YO MOMMA HAS NO FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY ALL DIED IN A CAR CRASH WHICH SHE CAUSED’
And again
‘Your mother is ugly because of the crippling meth addiction she developed in her teen years, which has wrought irreversible damage on her appearance.’
‘Your mother considers you a burden and blames you for the lifestyle changes she’s had to make because of you.’
And again
‘Every morning your mother wakes up and looks at the reflection in the mirror, and stares at the woman she has become. She regrets the choices she’s made in life, and prays every night for the chance to go back in time and do things right. But every morning she wakes up and sees herself in the mirror, and sees you crawl out of your bedroom.’
and etc
As for the zombie part of my last one,
DOOM
