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Share a Joke
By: Truman Overby Date: May 7, 2019, 12:01 pm
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It can be an original from you or one that someone else told.
One of my favorite comedians is Rodney Dangerfield. This is a
typical Dangerfield joke: "I got no respect as a kid. On my
birthday, my dad showed me a picture of a cake."
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Re: Share a Joke
By: SHL Date: May 7, 2019, 10:57 pm
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[quote author=E Pluribus Unum link=topic=1030.msg15170#msg15170
date=1557248471]
It can be an original from you or one that someone else told.
One of my favorite comedians is Rodney Dangerfield. This is a
typical Dangerfield joke: "I got no respect as a kid. On my
birthday, my dad showed me a picture of a cake."
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Oh, I got a few good ones for you Jerry. You‘re probably old
enough to remember Mom‘s Mabley, aren‘t you? She was that black
lady who looked sort of old, wore those old clothes and that
funny hat and did stand up? She‘d appear on Johnny Carson or
some show like that in the 60s. I looked at a few of her old
clips on YouTube recently and they are pretty funny. (A bit of
trivia is, she was actually a lesbian, but that‘s neither here
nor there.)
The context is about how she likes younger men but always winds
up with the old ones. One of her routines went like this:
„I was married to one old man and he died. Thank goodness.
Well, mom got out of a job, and it’s the truth, I’ve been
accused of liking younger men...and I got a reason...and I’m
guilty. But, mom got broke and the winter time coming on, didn‘t
have no money and I married another old man. Older than the
other one......old...older than his birthday.....and u g l y! He
was so ugly, honest to goodness, he hurt my feelings....I told
him the other night, I said, „Let‘s sit down and have a
talk...Somebody‘s got to die cos I can‘t put up with this no
more“. He said, „Alright. I‘ll sit down and talk to ya.“ He
said, „Where would you find another man like me?“ I said, „The
graveyard.“ He said, „What would you do if I died?“ I said,
„laugh.“ His sister died and we went to the funeral. After the
funeral was over the preacher walked over to em and tapped em on
the shoulder. He said, „How old are you pops?“ He said, „91.“ He
said, „Ain‘t no need in you going home.“
„I‘ll never forget when we got married. Started out of the
church, somebody throwed a handful of rice at him and knocked
him out.“ Honest to goodness......Ah, talk about getting on your
nerves...He said, „Remember, I did you a favor. I gave you my
name.“ I said, „Yes, and I got some names for you. Take any one
of em ya want.“ ...He had the nerve enough to say to me, „You’d
be surprised if I got up and kissed you!“ I said, „I‘d be
surprised if you got up!“ Children’s always asking me, „Mom what
is it like, to be married to an old man?“ I said, „Honey the
best way I can explain it, it‘s like pushing a Cadillac up a
steep hill..with a rope.“
That was just part of it, but she was pretty funny. Since that
was national TV in 1969, it was very cleaned up. Most of her
acts, so I‘ve heard, were a lot less tame.
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Re: Share a Joke
By: SHL Date: May 8, 2019, 12:40 am
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Sorry to deviate a bit from the humorous theme of the thread
but, just as a footnote, I read about the history of Mom‘s
Mabley, and it‘s really rather sad and tragic, even though she
lived to be 81. She was black and born in 1894 in North
Carolina, one of 16 children in her family, of course under the
Jim Crow laws of the time. Her parents died when she was young,
and by age 14 she had been raped twice- once at age 11 by an
elderly black man and then again at age 13 by a white sheriff.
She ended up putting two children up for adoption, but went on
to have more. She came out as a lesbian at age 27, around 1921,
making her the first openly gay stand up comic, very unusual for
that era. She often appeared in androgynous clothing in the
1920s in her acts.
Maybe her comedy was a way of dealing with such a tragic early
life. But, she later went on to be one of the highest paid black
comedians, earning $10,000 a week at the peak of her career at
New York’s Apollo Theater. It’s a pretty amazing story.
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms_Mabley
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Re: Share a Joke
By: Alharacas Date: May 8, 2019, 3:15 am
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Wow, thanks, Steven! I'd never even heard of the woman.
As to jokes, I've always liked the kind with vegetables or
animals - some of these might be to your taste, Jerry:
HTML http://www.yukonfromthegroundup.ca/veggiejokes.php
The puns get worse and worse the further down you scroll. ;)
You'll have heard that Germans and humour don't really go
together. There's quite a bit of truth in the saying that you
know a German's going to be funny when he's put on a silly hat -
unlike the British, jokes, puns and witty remarks are rarely
part of everyday German conversation. I guess this is why Loriot
is so beloved by most Germans (including me): he keeps making
fun of our very seriousness. Many of his sketches/topics/key
sentences have become part of everyday language, like "Sie haben
da eine Nudel" (from a sketch about a guy long-windedly and
extremely formally proposing over dinner, with a bit of noodle
stuck to his face which he keeps transferring unwittingly from
mouth to nose to chin with his napkin), or "Jodel-Diplom"
(yodelling diploma) for being serious about an utterly useless
qualification. Apart from yodelling, this sketch is mainly about
how seriously Germans take evening classes (there are extra
schools called Volkshochschulen for those), plus patronizing
husbands and pseudo-liberated, doormat wives. Have a look and
surprise me by telling me you found it even a little bit funny.
;)
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMTsQ8LlzM
Oh, and by the way, Du Dödel du is a very colloquial way of
saying "You idiot, you".
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Re: Share a Joke
By: NealC Date: May 8, 2019, 5:16 am
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I love the older comics like Dangerfield and Don Rickles. But
it always was a big night at my house back in the 70's when the
comedians would get together for a roast, I loved them.
I think this is a U.S. thing, so for those outside the U.S. two
or three times a year Dean Martin would host a roast, where
various comics, tv and movie stars, and political figures would
get together and poke fun at one of their number. Below is one
excerpt.
Dean Martin, the MC is on the left, Don Rickles, the one they
are roasting that night is on the right, and the speaker is
Foster Brooks, who actually made a living acting like a drunk.
See if you can name all the 70's stars on the dias :-)
HTML https://youtu.be/i1BKR53qxOY
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Re: Share a Joke
By: Truman Overby Date: May 8, 2019, 7:33 am
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I'd forgotten about Moms Mabley, Steve. Thanks for the reminder.
She was one of the best. I remember watching her on TV, probably
the Richard Pryor show.
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Re: Share a Joke
By: SHL Date: May 8, 2019, 12:46 pm
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[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=1030.msg15190#msg15190
date=1557303331]
Wow, thanks, Steven! I'd never even heard of the woman.
As to jokes, I've always liked the kind with vegetables or
animals - some of these might be to your taste, Jerry:
HTML http://www.yukonfromthegroundup.ca/veggiejokes.php
The puns get worse and worse the further down you scroll. ;)
You'll have heard that Germans and humour don't really go
together. There's quite a bit of truth in the saying that you
know a German's going to be funny when he's put on a silly hat -
unlike the British, jokes, puns and witty remarks are rarely
part of everyday German conversation. I guess this is why Loriot
is so beloved by most Germans (including me): he keeps making
fun of our very seriousness. Many of his sketches/topics/key
sentences have become part of everyday language, like "Sie haben
da eine Nudel" (from a sketch about a guy long-windedly and
extremely formally proposing over dinner, with a bit of noodle
stuck to his face which he keeps transferring unwittingly from
mouth to nose to chin with his napkin), or " Jodel-Diplom“
(yodelling diploma) for being serious about an utterly useless
qualification. Apart from yodelling, this sketch is mainly about
how seriously Germans take evening classes (there are extra
schools called Volkshochschulen for those), plus patronizing
husbands and pseudo-liberated, doormat wives. Have a look and
surprise me by telling me you found it even a little bit funny.
;)
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMTsQ8LlzM
Oh, and by the way, Du Dödel du is a very colloquial way of
saying "You idiot, you".
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Thanks, Alharacas for that. I thought it was hilarious. After
all, there is a BIG difference between someone with just the
normal Jodeln abilities and those with a Jodel-Diplom! A
graduate of this guy’s important program. Get that diploma, you
got a real career going for you! Whoever said humor doesn‘t
translate well? I did see once that Nudel skit with the guy
proposing and the Nudel going back and forth over his face. That
one was really funny too.
And yes der Dödel is a Trottel (idiot), but it has another
meaning in Northern Germany for something a bit different (I
have to defer to Alharacas on how often this is said/heard since
my internet isn‘t pulling up any usage charts. It’s along the
lines of a Schwanz, ein Pimmel (and lots of other names for that
exclusively and most important male body part ;)).
Dödel reminds me of der Doldi a bit, which is what my mom‘s best
friend calls her nephew in Bamberg, sort of a dummy I suppose. I
never heard Doldi outside of Memmelsdorf/Bamberg, that
Oberfranken region. But that dude is a Doldi. He‘ll walk right
into his parent‘s house like he lives there, which he doesn‘t,
and walk right past a guest and never even say hello. And he‘s
like 45 or something. Yeah he qualifies as a Dödel too. :)
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Re: Share a Joke
By: SHL Date: May 8, 2019, 1:33 pm
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Just a quick addition to the footnote about Moms Mabley, because
I thought the Wikipedia article was a bit vague on this. Her
rapes at ages 11, and 13 each resulted in pregnancies for which
she put each child up for adoption. I suppose it goes to show
the power some people have to use humor to overcome personal
tragedy. A reference is from a 1987 New York Times article,
„THEATER,The Pain Behind the Laughter of Mom‘s Mabley.“
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/theater/theater-the-pain-behind-the-laughter-of-moms-mabley.html
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