I'm gonna guess no one got the gag. But that pretty much describes a lot of what I do, right?
8-)
Last night's TV piece dealt with films that people might not have seen at the Fresh Coast Film Festival this past weekend. It was basically one big joke; after all, I made up all the film titles and plots, and I made a conscious attempt not to rely on any of the running gags I've usually used in the 3-plus years I've been doing this.
Thankfully, while I was on a long, meandering run Saturday morning several of the fake titles simply popped into my head, as often happens when I run. One of them involved a joke about a UP poet trying to find a word that rhymes with “cudighi”. I needed a title for the fake flick, and for some strange reason this one popped into my head--
“At Least Orange Has Door Hinge”. And the gag that probably no one got is that orange—another word that doesn't have a direct rhyme—at least has something that kinda sounds like it, at least according to writers as varied as William Burroughs & Jim Morrison. “Cudighi”really doesn't.
And, as we all know, if you have to put that much explanation into a gag, it probably appeals to few—if any—people.
I still think it's funny, but then I think a LOT of things are funny that the average person would just shake their head at.
It was just one of many gags, including one that I threw in at the last minute because an actual real-life miracle occurs. See if any of them are actually funny to YOU--
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