MythTickle by Justin Thompson for August 26, 2022

Go on, tell jester one more……

Hope this is not based on Justin’s experience.

“Give me another chance sire, I’m sure I can be more off-the-wall if you just let me down”

Laughing at your own jokes doesn’t make them any funnier.

Timing, man! It’s all about TIMING!

That’s whatcha get, playing the Orthoptera convention!

At least we wasn’t an obscene jester ;)

Jest kidding?

Reminds me of the comedian at Bada Bing on The Sopranos. The regular cast was giving the throat cut gesture, and you know that’s not just a theatrical signal.

Just hang around for a while until you’ve got that mid-evil routine down, okay?

Isn’t the Man in the Iron Mask a bit anachronistic?

https://youtu.be/wDKHmlBzG6o

This reminds of when i went to a humorist convention. Everyone there enjoyed telling jokes. While there I saw the guy in front of me yell, “55!”, and everyone laughed, with a few groans. Then someone next to me yelled out, “86!”, and was greeted with a lot of groans and a few titters. Then someone yelled out, “23!”, and everyone laughed uproariously. I couldn’t figure this out until someone next to me explain that since they all knew all the variants of a joke they would not tell the whole joke (especially the shaggy dog ones), but simply had a number for each variant. So I got up and said, “36!”. Dead silence. I sat down and looked very sheepishly and mutter something about what the heck did I do wrong. The guy next to me heard this and said, “Hey, you said it, but the way you said it was off”.

That’s what happens when you have to follow Harly Quinn’s turn at the mike.

Alexandre Dumas wrote the fictional “Man in the Iron Mask.” There actually was an iron-masked prisoner during the reign of Louis XIV; nobody knew who he was nor why he was in jail. There were many guesses, but Dumas had the most “fanciful” idea that he was King Louis’ twin brother Phillip.