Joke Machine

I'd say on average I make about 30 jokes a day and at least 10 of them are funny enough for me to want to retell. This varies greatly, considering I can hit a hot streak and make a joke a minute for about an hour(usually these are funny, too, or I'd just stop talking) and some days I'll just be in a shitty mood or the only person I talk to is Pepper (who, by the way, thinks I'm hilarious). But regardless, I estimate it evens out to about 30 a day, and 1/3rd are real zingers.


So for about the last year I've sort-of been putting together a stand up act. I say sort-of because there are no places around here for me to try an open mic or anything, so there is no real point to me actively putting together an act. I also say sort-of because I don't like force comedy. It has to come to me on it's own. Once I get a good premise I can expand without a problem, but if I just try to write shit without waiting for inspiration what I get is decidedly mediocre. So rather then just sit my computer and wait to think of something funny, I created a file on my desktop and add to it whenever I remember one of those 10 jokes a day I'd like to retell.

So it turns out that a significant part of comedy is memory.