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The audience, quite rightly, didn't much laugh at my performance…
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The audience, quite rightly, didn't much laugh at my performance tonight at A Cuppa Tea. My best line, a question to the MC: "How much time would I have left if I were funny?" (Response: "Oh, twenty minutes.")
If only I had been doing standup for Kris and Kurt. All you have to do is use "bones" as every punchline!
Later in the evening I did achieve funny with Leonard. He explained that the Iran-Iraq war was a bit like Iraq's WWII, in that women worked in the factories and such and afterwards their rights expanded. I asked, "Where did you find that out? The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Addendum: Every Other Cool Thing?"
Well, he cracked up.
