Tuesday, September 11, 2012

I wrote a new joke!

This joke is written in the style of Mike Birbiglia.  I'm trying to avoid shock humor and instead actually write about things that have happened to me.  Here's an example of my old shock humor:

I got pulled over for a speeding ticket today.  Nah it’s okay.  It’s not like it’s my first time getting a speeding ticket.  But I think it was the cops first time writing a speeding ticket.  
He didn’t make me pull my pants down or anything like the last four cops.
 It's alright. Is it true? My lips (and butthole) are sealed.

If you want to check out some of Mike Birbiglia's comedy check him out in the links below.

Without further ado: Here's my newest joke:

I went to a conference for my job recently where I met a bunch of people.  I know what you’re thinking- thank god this guy has a day job because this comedy thing is not going to work out for him.

Anyways, at the conference I’m in this workshop and we’re introducing ourselves and I was like the fourth chris in the room. If you’ve had a class or a job with people who share your name you know how much this sucks, right? Cuz now we have to figure out what we’re going to call each other


So we have to this weird native american ritual to determine who gets what name.
“Well that guy is older so he shall be Chris the wise”
“That guy is indian, so we’re just going to call him Brown Chris”
“That guy beat the shit out of his girlfriend last week so we shall call him Chris Brown" 


"And he’s fired.”

Well we get to me, and I firmly say that I’d like to be called Chris, just Chris. But I joke that kids in middle school used to call me Mother Goose, because my last name sounds like Goose. And because little kids are assholes.

But they actually choose to refer to me as Mother Goose! Even the leader of the workshop who is the president of a multimillion dollar organization.
They didn’t even try to pretend they were joking about it.  At one point I ask a question, cuz I’m a loudmouth, and the president guys responds-
“Now, that’s a very good question Mother Goose”
“Mother Goose raises a good point here, how DID humpty dumpty fall off the wall [trail off] and what can we do to put him together again?”


I'm still working on the ending.

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