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and the impact of gravity on a joke

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Jim Dalling
Aug 03, 2024
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at the end of the joke there’s always a moment.

it’s in that moment that you think

c’mon, get it, get it, c’mon, I know you’re going to get this, you’ve got this… get this GET THIS!

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It’s that moment know by every golfer and embodied so well by the great Adam Sandler in the cinematic masterpiece Happy Gilmore when Gilmore employs many a sophisticated trick to convince the golf ball to ‘Go in your hole’.

Sometimes jokes don’t hit right away.

Sometimes that’s because the joke went over the heads of the audience.

If you’re patient and the joke is quick enough, you can let it orbit the earth a couple of times. The weight of time will drag it down a bit, then it might just smack them funny eventually. But in order to let the gravitational pull of the earth bring a joke down to the level of some people you know, you need to wait.

And there’s no waiting without hope.

After every joke, a comedian isn’t certain they’ll get a laugh. T…

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