What was a time when your joke landed with 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.
