Whatzermatter? Not funny? Is humor rising to new heights jokesters must climb?
Ever been to the Swiss Alps? Felt adventurous enough to go mountain climbing?
Well, if you’re planning to be funny, you’d better get yourself some mountaineering boots, take along an ice axe, wear a headlamp and bring plenty of rope!
When it comes to venturing up that humor trail these days, if you have a fear of heights or asp viper bites, better think twice!
During these excessively hot, politically fraught, tariff tough inflationary, violently flooding times, making people laugh can be like Don Quixote climbing the Matterhorn with an acrophobic Sancho Panza as his sidekick.
Sometimes after you tell a joke, you have to advise your solemn, humor asleep listener that what they just heard was meant to be funny. It was intended to amuse, not make them snooze.
“That, my friend, was a joke!” You smile as best you can, then with all your might, you demonstrate what it’s like to laugh. When then comes a more puzzled look, ugh, you’ve bombed! Fallen off the cliff.
So let me now test YOUR sense of humor. Let’s gauge your amusement altitude, see to what heights humor must go to reach your steely, half asleep funny bone.
Here’s a joke I told the other day to the staff at a doctor’s office. I’ll use it in an artificially intelligent way to test your response, to measure what’s far more important than your hemoglobin or blood sugar levels–your humor level!
Ready, get set, here’s a skit starring Jane and her boyfriend Clark Kent:
Jane: My doctor Kimmel, he’s so funny.
Clark: Oh?
Jane: Oh yes, he’s a riot. Just like Jimmy Kimmel, he keeps me in stitches!
Clark: Oh, he’s a dermatologist! (uproarious laughter!)
Hello! Are you still there? The humor meter reads zero. Are you still with me? Did a dermatologist ever leave you in stitches? That’s your cue to laugh out loud!
Oh well, Tom Madden will keep trying to be entertaining especially when promoting clients of his PR firm TransMedia Group, which he started when he left NBC where he was vice president and assistant to then CEO Fred Silverman who brought to television some of the funniest TV series, from Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley to Cheers and Mork & Mindy.
When he’s not on the publicity trail, Madden’s writing blogs at MaddenMischief and coming soon will be his seventh book titled “As America’s Hippest, Is Catholicism Now Coolest?” It’s his hope it makes the new Pope laugh. Maybe smile?
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