If it bleeds you can eat it

[wedley]

Work on the sitcom is much less fun than I envisioned it. I imagined it as being all getting people coffee and scrubbing toilets and tripping over microphone leads and stuff. Unfortunately, as the writer, my role is quite different. It's less coffee and more writing. Which sucks, because I really like making coffee. Toilets I'm not so crash-

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[happypea]

That was a great journal entry. Lucas especially liked it. He kept explaining to me why your sitcom is so funny. It's not that I didn't GET why it's funny, it's just that whenever he thinks something is really hilarious he seems to like explaining why it's funny and laughing as he goes. I'm serious. Is he like this with you?

[wedley]

No, I don't recall him ever doing that. Sometimes I'll tell a subtle joke, though, and someone will say the obvious humourous ramification of my joke, as if they're explaining my own joke to me. That pisses me off.

[happypea]

Perhaps it's a more recent thing of his. And I guess I encourage it. We 're always retelling old jokes to each other and laughing as we explain them! It's really pretty creepy.

So why does it bug you when people explain your joke? Perhaps they're merely stating their appreciation of your...wit.

[wedley]

They're not stating an appreciation of my wit, they're only stating that my wit is completely unknown to them. I was waiting until this came up again so I would have an actual example, because this sort of thing is very hard to think up

[happypea]

Oh. Eurgh. I get you now. I hate that. It happens to me sometimes and what's worse is when it happens in a group, I make a joke that nobody gets then someone else makes the exact same one and everyone starts laughing.

Though perhaps that's because everyone just instantly assumes that what I say is going to be dopey as usual ;)

Er, anyway. I feel your pain Sister.

[pooksterpup]

Yeah, the thing Jessie was talking about in that we're always explaining the jokes to each other is sort of a different thing. The thing you're referring to irritates me as well. But the form that we explain the joke in is more like a reflective "god, I can't get over how ridiculous that is!" sort of thing. It's hard to explain, but yeah, it's different.

And I don't do it all the time. Occasionally yes, but not all the time. Only when it's worth looking back on.