Good old fashioned joke writing

I wrote some jokes earlier for my boss for the rehearsal show that we did today. He used one and it got a room temperature response. I enjoyed trying to write jokes in someone else’s voice. It’s way different than writing stand up material for myself or even trying to write stuff for the ol’ blog. Hopefully some day in the not-so-distant future writing funny stuff will be my sole responsibility for a show-though I suspect I’d miss my arts and crafts duties (glue stics are indescribably satisfying to use when it comes to adhesive needs.)

One of the topics of discussion on today’s show was going to be about how the UN wants to ban human cloning. Last minute that topic got axed from the lineup. However, prior to its removal I troubled myself to try to come up with a joke about the story. If I didn’t display this joke here it would probably never ever see the light of day- and that would be a reality far too difficult for me to handle. Ergo, I’m going to bust it out. Now I realize I’ve built this up a lot at this point and the disappointment of the payoff is deepening with every additional word that I type. So recognize that I recognize that this isn’t anything spectacular, just that I didn’t want this joke to die alone, never having elicited a single human response. Never having helped spread a smirk across a disgruntled assistant’s lips. Never having caused a fellow comedian’s disapproving headshake. Take wings little joke and affect change.

So, the UN just adopted a non-binding declaration banning all types of human cloning. If you ask me that seems a little bit hypocritical of an organization whose last leader was himself a clone. Boutros Boutros Gali Gali: textbook clone name-he dropped the second Gali awhile back to avoid suspicion, but I’ve been doing my homework.

Raucous applause, scattered audience members give standing O and…gracious bows taken.

Sorry, I got swept up in a moment there. I won’t let it happen again. That didn’t feel right.

Exree Hipp takes on undefeated Smoked U tonight with first place and a likely #1 seed in the playoffs on the line. I’ll be watching from the sideline. It ought to be torturous. Hopefully I can serve as a rallying cause for my teammates. It might be audacious, but at the pre-game huddle I’m going to tell everyone to put there hands in the middle and say “for Adam on three.”

Later