What was a time when your joke landed with perfect comedic timing?
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my in-laws were at the grocery store and an older black lady came down the isle looking confused. she spoke up and asked, "Are there any crackers in this isle?"
my FIL spoke up and looked her dead in the eye and said, "Just the two of us."
The lady stood there for a moment, even more confused and then busted out cackling as she walked away.
not even a few minutes later, a couple isles over, the cackling resumed with some other laughter with it.
racism's powerless in the light of comedy.
Oh my lord, perfect! In the late 90s I had never heard the word cracker. Working Nissan Consumer Affairs, lady on the phone went off, "Well ain't you a smartass little cracker!" Slammed the phone. (And yes, I was being a smartass.)
Pulled my black friend aside, "Hey Darren, just got called a 'cracker'. Sounds like a racial slur, right?"
LOL my god, he took a step back:
"SHALFI you ain't never heard that word?!"
"Um."
"You know, like a slave master? <pantomiming a whip>"
"OH!"
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I have two. The first one I can’t even believe it happened because it feels like bad writing to contrive the perfect circumstances.
I was in a tiny local comedy thing and we did these Weekend Update-style reworkings of local news. Someone was working out a skit that involved a bear and asked if anybody had a bear suit they could borrow. Turns out, they were pretty sure someone else at the comedy theater, a guy named Juan, had one. Someone asked, “Would it fit me?”
I had to say it.
“Guys, Juan size fits all!”
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The other was waaaay back, watching The Matrix at the student center in college. It had been out for a while and everybody had already seen it, but getting to rewatch it for a couple bucks on a big screen was worth it even for a poor college student. It comes to the scene where Agent Smith has Morpheus chained up and is interrogating him, then he describes the way humans consume and spread and destroy everything around them. Smith says, “Do you know what else does that?”
I call out from the crowd…
I’m not the kind to talk in movies, but again, I had to say it.
I regularly do something similar to the second one: depending on the vibe, when a Lord of the Rings rewatch is happening, I'll often answer Elrond's "Welcome to Rivendell" with "...Mr. Anderson."
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Feel free to share when you came in with a line or joke at just the right time - nothing beats a well timed moment!
Every damn time I speak.
I’m sometimes exhausting…
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I feel like racist puppet man may be better off forgotten, though.
Probably, I honestly don't remember the actual sketch too much, but at the time it was part of the zeitgeist and it was an example of perfect comedic timing.
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On a visit in the GDR when it still was real. Me being young and from the West, I tried to tell them a political joke about the GDR. Then they explained to me why the joke doesnt work, and their reality is even worse than my joke.
It was embarrassing, comical, political, all of it... Can't make up such a situation.
(I don't repeat it here, because hardly anybody could understand it anymore today)
Go oooooon.
Love from Germany (former Brandenburg).
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I regularly do something similar to the second one: depending on the vibe, when a Lord of the Rings rewatch is happening, I'll often answer Elrond's "Welcome to Rivendell" with "...Mr. Anderson."
It’s so hard to see Hugo Weaving as anything but Agent Smith. Elrond just looks like he’s gone undercover.
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Feel free to share when you came in with a line or joke at just the right time - nothing beats a well timed moment!
I was at an Aquabats show and they were about to play The Baker, they were interacting with the crowd about things they love and the crowd responded with each thing “WE LOVE [thing they said]”, then before the song they told us they got the muffins to throw into the crowd from a local place called Dick’s Bakery, there was a moment of silence and I screamed out “I LOVE DICKS!!” And there was an audible giggle from the entire crowd.
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It’s so hard to see Hugo Weaving as anything but Agent Smith. Elrond just looks like he’s gone undercover.
Especially during the Council of Elrond, when Merry and Pippin burst in and it cuts to his reaction shot. You almost expect him to spontaneously grow a pair of Ray-Bans out of his head.
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Especially during the Council of Elrond, when Merry and Pippin burst in and it cuts to his reaction shot. You almost expect him to spontaneously grow a pair of Ray-Bans out of his head.
And then pretty soon the whole Council is just Smiths.
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Feel free to share when you came in with a line or joke at just the right time - nothing beats a well timed moment!
More like when a joke happened to me .... my husband was watching Curb Your Enthusiasm which I never got super into cause it was hard for me to watch Larry David be Larry David. But this one day, I got back from shopping at Costco and went to the kitchen to try and get the ridiculous plastic clam shell packaging off of whatever I bought. I was struggling, trying to cut it, pull it, wouldn't budge. I go into living room and literally Larry David is doing the EXACT SAME THING on the tv, stomping on it etc. My mind was blown and my husband was all, see that's all it takes! One thing like that and you're hooked! I'll always respect that show for making that cosmic thing happen lol.
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And then pretty soon the whole Council is just Smiths.
"So be it. I shall be the Fellowship of the Ring."
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Feel free to share when you came in with a line or joke at just the right time - nothing beats a well timed moment!
A colleague of mine lost a finger a few months earlier while climbing a fence, jumping down and forgetting about his wedding ring.
Anyway, we were in a conference call with another office and he jokingly wanted to check the video feed. He asked them: "how many fingers do I hold up?" In that moment I came up with "I'll give you a hint! It's not 10!". It was funny because everyone had forgotten about his finger and only realized after a few secs. -
Feel free to share when you came in with a line or joke at just the right time - nothing beats a well timed moment!
It was my own joke, but I was reading where people used to swim in the tidal basin in Washington DC.
Coworker goes "really?"
I paused for a second and said "well, you couldn't, but yeah white folk did."
He's black.
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"So be it. I shall be the Fellowship of the Ring."
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I don't get it. Is this like an "obvious explanation" joke?
Yes.
"Do you know why fire hydrants are red? Because they paint em that way at the factory" energy.
