Tue Feb 11 18:25:02 EST 2014
Steve Cottrell wrote:
> On 11/2/14, Igor Roshchin, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
> >
> >Cotty, some of those are funny, but I am with P.J. on this.
> >The blog author ("Conan O'Brien wannabe") is just showing himself as
> >a smart S.
>
> The words 'comic' and 'effect' spring to mind here ;-)
>
Cotty, I understand that.
I know that my own humor is often too geeky or too subtle (as in
"convoluted") such that sometimes some people just shrug shoulders.
Here is the opposite extreme: the authors make an attempt at jokes that
are too obvious to be funny. Jokes that are mocking other jokes (what I
call "second derivative" or "second order" jokes) are hard to make,
and usually they are not funny.
Some of the photos in that blog were made as a joke themselves. Even
if that original joke wasn't too funny, mocking it (and stretching the
context "by the ears") does not produce a good level joke.
Also, some of the joke attempts were falling into the category
"don't kick the dog when its down".
Cheers,
Igor
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