what is the secret to comedy the secret of comedy is tining.

oh fork.

did norm’s bit make you laugh? I LMAO, but then I’m Canadian (in fact, one of our most significant exports to y’inz/y’all is comedians; that, and water. But who needs more water? You just turn on the tap.)

Those who didn’t get it, don’t get it. Explaining a joke, or a routine, not only tends to kill the bit; it rarely wins over the non-believer because it doesn’t change their fundamental approach to comedy – the sense of humour is individual, and not subject to rules. Here’s a rule that proves the exception: While jokes occasionally equal comedy, comedy does not equal jokes.

I remember the first time I saw Andy Kaufman: the Great Gatsby bit, on SNL… wow…. I realized I was seeing the first person to do something new with standup since Lenny Bruce; and AK is still unsurpassed.

If you found Norm funny, right arm. If not, too bad. Either way, the hating, the dissing, the holier-than-thou, is uncalled for and unhelpful: it just drives us further apart. I don’t love you because you share my likes and dislikes, I love you. The rest is gravy.

BTW, Heather: Superfrankenstein didn’t say he spit out of his nose. Oh, and Superfranketc.: most of us don’t eat the wrapper.