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I don't really get what your main criticism is. In your other comment, you said the biggest sin committed was that of stacking punchlines on punchlines (which i
by nemetroid 5y ago
I don't really get what your main criticism is. In your other comment, you said the biggest sin committed was that of stacking punchlines on punchlines (which is a problem of flow, not joke quality), but now you're saying that some of the jokes are too bad and should have been cut?
More importantly, though, the standards of live comedy can't be directly applied to something that's intended for reading. Live comedy concerns itself a lot with timing your delivery to the (vocal) audience response. I agree that the linked material would need rework before it could be used as a stand-up routine, but that's not the goal.
For what it's worth, I think the blog post is funny. Most of the jokes are funny. Some jokes are less funny, but aren't dwelled on, and by the end of the page I've forgotten the bad ones.
- kristopolous 5y agoThis is clearly not the place to talk about this. I'm being fought by people who want to claim there is no study of comedy or that it's an invalid pursuit. Arguing the baseline tenants of whether the discipline even exists. I'm sorry but no thanks.
- nemetroid 5y agoOf course the study is valid. I've done stage comedy too, and I agree with everything in the Andy Riley link you posted. But different rules apply for spoken versus read material.