Poll please? Should I use this joke?

[doiks14]

No.

 

[kylew]

That wasn't a joke. Also, why would some one smash something up when they're depressed? I know depression is widely (and wrongly) used in place of feeling "sad" or a bit "down", but angry?

 

[Bri]

That wasn't a joke. Also, why would some one smash something up when they're depressed? I know depression is widely (and wrongly) used in place of feeling "sad" or a bit "down", but angry?

OVER ANALYSIS ALERT!

I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it!

 

[TS7]

All depends on delivery. Peter Kay at the beginning of his 'Live at the Top of the Tower' gig did a number of medicore one-liners and the audicience loved it.

From 7mins

 

[Russinating]

Peter Kay's "audience" are hardly the best comedy critics.

 

[Pho]

As a quick one-liner is sounds fine to me.



Speaking of smashing, did you hear about the man who ran into a woman on her lunch break?

..he smashed her pasty.


/thread
/coat

 

[Efour]

i smirked and i havent even heard you deliver it so gets my vote.

peter kay is a ***** so there

 

[Rroff]

yeah the delivery will make or break this one...

 

[Disco Boy]

I liked it =]

 

[jp_bl_68]

Dont even grab your coat on the way out.. Just go.

This, unless you're leading into a bigger bit about your friend or self harm.

 

[doiks14]

I say stick to something more safe...
Maybe something that everyone will find funny or something quite funny to some and to others, its so horrible that they'd have to laugh at it anyways

Like,
"What do you call a Fly when you take its wings off?"
"A Walk"

 

[Cosimo]

yeah the delivery will make or break this one...

A delivery in an empty room should be just fine.

 

[Caseh]

Peter Kay's "audience" are hardly the best comedy critics.

Surely it's more important if the audience find you funny, than a critic? It's the audience that pay the money, after all.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Peter Kay's "audience" are hardly the best comedy critics.

Peter Kay's "grapes" are a bit "sour" I think you mean.

 

[~>Dg<~]

do it again

 

[Cybermyk]

A friend of mine always smashes up her furniture when she's depressed.

She's a shelf-harmer.

At first she was just a closet destroyer but then she came out...

I was thinking of dating her for a while but when someone's labeled as a homewrecker...

 

[kylew]

OVER ANALYSIS ALERT!

I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it!

Rather than being over anaylsed, I think it's just badly worded. Depression and breaking things aren't two things you'd normall associate with one another.

 

[EdGey]

meh its ok if delivered correctly.

 

[simisker]

Send it off to Milton Jones, where it belongs.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Rather than being over anaylsed, I think it's just badly worded. Depression and breaking things aren't two things you'd normall associate with one another.

No but depression and self harm are closely associated. Self harm sounds like shelf harm. The joke is that if you were depressed you might self harm, but this person shelf harms instead. They sound the same, but they have radically different meanings. People will be puzzled when you tell them that your depressed friend does something you don't normally associate with depression, that being to damage furniture, but they will then be surprised and amused when you describe this as "shelf harming" as this sounds like "self harming", which we have already established is something that depressed people are prone to doing. The humour is derived from the absurdity of a depressed person destroying furniture, combined with the humorous homophonic nature of the two phrases used to describe disparate activities.