You’ll often hear that quality is a better attribute than quantity.  For most things this is true.  While eating my weight in Snickers sounds heavenly, my waistline and wallet are better off if I just savor one or two.

Quality often supersedes quantity but not within the realm of comedy.  This sounds counterintuitive.  It seems that the comedian with quality material is a better comedian.  What gets overlooked in this example is that comedic material takes time to develop.

Rarely is a good joke written.  Usually a good joke is one that is rewritten and rehearsed over and over.  With time and practice, a joke can evolve into a prized piece.  As a series of jokes take shape, a bit forms and soon a comedian might have a decent two minutes.

Of course, not every concept makes a good joke.  A comedian must note each idea and invest time and energy turning that idea into a joke.  Dozens of ideas a day run a gamut of tests to prove their hilarity.  Some make laughs while others find their way into the ever growing pile of bad ideas/my jokes.

It is for this reason that quantity is of the utmost importance in comedy.  The more ideas that a comedian has, the more opportunity he has to create quality material.  Quantity leads to quality.

So, the next time you hear a comics’ great joke, take a moment and think of the process.  Realize it is the quantity of ideas, time and effort that made you giggle and then tip accordingly.

 

Way back when I was in college I went to one of the most crowded and fun parties that I’ve ever been to.  I made my way through the drunk student body that was the living room into the kitchen.  I discovered a fire extinguisher and decided to make things a little more interesting.  After all, what would the most epic party be without a smoke machine?  I set off the extinguisher in the kitchen and everybody panicked.  Hundreds of people nervously struggled to get out of the house.  Many people squished through the front and back doors while others dropped from windows.

For those of you who don’t know, the chemical composition of some fire extinguishers depletes air of oxygen, thus eliminating one of the essential elements of a burning fire.  This suffocation effect also feels like tear gas.  Because the party was so big and rowdy, people thought that the police had come to break it up.

As everybody vacated the house into the front lawn, I continued to spray the fire extinguisher.  It wasn’t long before I was confronted by a small man (possibly Tom Green).  He commanded me to cease and threatened to kick my ass if I didn’t.  He began counting down from ten.  At each number, I sprayed the extinguisher on his foot.  I don’t remember what happened after he counted three.  According to accounts of the incident, Tom Green’s friend clocked me in the head and I fell to the ground.  I remember waking up shortly after amidst a brawl.  Dozens of people piled up around me and grappled and fought for no other reason but to grapple and fight.  I made it out with a scar and a point.

The point is that there are many things to avoid in your life but a fight is not one of them.  Yes, this was one of the dumbest things I ever did, but it was exhilarating.  There are stories still circulating about what exactly happened and it gets more interesting and funny with every anecdote.  If I were you (and there is a strong chance that I am), I would highly suggest instigating a fight.  Here, then, are 10 reasons why:

10. It will show everyone that you’re not gay (unless you instigate a slap fight, in which case, it means you’re really gay)

9.  You can fight anything from a bully to a small animal to a mound of dirt

8. It proves that you, and not Tony Danza, are the boss

7. It enables you to collect odd scars not resulting from risky sexual behavior

6. Even mild concussions are more entertaining than any drug induced episode

5. You can take the skills you learn to prison when you’re arrested for assault

4. It’s the only accurate way of testing for hemophilia

3. You took three years of karate as a youngster and have yet prove yourself as a true yellow belt

2. It will boost your confidence…right in the face

-and, finally-

1. Fighting cures cancer

 

Love is one of those things that no one, especially you, will ever manage to get right.  You will miraculously gain your lover’s trust only to destroy it time and time again and that is why there’s this old standby:

“Never screw a woman you intend to love.”

 

Ty and Aaron blow it up this week with a ton of new stuff. If you like religious debate and awkwardly timed farts and boners in church (He has risen, indeed), then you are certainly going to appreciate this week’s episode. So grab your sack and turn off the new Jerseylicious and enjoy the show. Tyler and Aaron also want to let you know that they love you more than anything in the world.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5973293

 

Because you’re a schmuck, you know how easy it is to fall off course pursuing goals when you fail to prepare yourself.  It’s the reason for this quote:

“Never jockey a humpless camel.”


 

This is the real history of April Fool’s Day (or April 1st for all the Romans out there.)

Pirates were the first race of people to celebrate the holiday.  They would fill their cannons with confetti and shower enemies with festive crate paper and shiny ornamental cut-outs.  Pirates.  On lookers took this as a sign of truce between pirates and their adversaries.  This illusion opened the door for a multitude of massacres which occurred annually on April 2nd through the 4th.  These are known as Booty Days in Somalia and are celebrated similarly to that of Cinco de Mayo (cruising Federal Blvd. waving Mexican flags and blasting De Dolores on the radio and La Cucaracha on the horn).  The Somalis are weird.

April Fool’s Day was adopted as a pagan ritual by Northern Italians in the late umpteenth century.  As a seasonal joke, these Italians would burn each other with extremely hot olive oil turning their Nipples into Naples.  It was quite the Firenze.  Several years later April Fool’s Day was forgotten.  But that was part of a long running April Fool’s Day theme where people claimed naivety.

Abraham Lincoln was the first modern American to adopt the past time.  As the Bible has it written, he tried to sacrifice his first born son to appease his God.  He grew a beard and a stove-pipe hat to compensate for his failures.  History also notes that he abolished slavery with the 13th Amendment on the first of April.  Was it a joke?  Jim Crow thought so.  Anyway, that’s the storied past of a favorite holiday.  How are you going to celebrate?

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