Why Jokes About Cancer and Rapists Are Not Funny
Mike Birbiglia’s has a great story about a comedy routine for a golf tournament gone wrong. The story starts at 35:20.
Mike Birbiglia’s has a great story about a comedy routine for a golf tournament gone wrong. The story starts at 35:20.
As I mentioned before, I work at an interactive marketing agency. Our newly trademarked tagline is “Lead with Interactive.” And on the new site, there’s this terrible video of me (and soon, others) explaining what Lead with Interactive means to them. Why I seem unable to speak and squint at the same time is a mystery to me. Thinking appears to be physically painful. Ugh.
Anyway, the launch of our new website and the tagline coincided with our Halloween party, so I shot a second spoof video to share with the team.
Warning: Language at the end gets a little NSFW. Because nothing’s funnier than the F-bomb.
If you haven’t listened to Patton Oswalt before, go to your local library and borrow “Werewolves & Lollipops.” It’s a CD of his standup routine. Hysterical. One of his bits is about doing “punch up” work, where writers and comedians come in to make a script better… Anyway, I’ll let him explain it.