Tuesday 19 January 2010

Observational Comedy

According to the never wrong, always infallible Wikipedia

"Observational comedy is a style of humor based on making remarks about commonplace aspects of everyday life. The humor, based on the premise of "It's funny because it's true," consists of observations made about sometimes very minor and superficial aspects of Western culture: from airline peanuts to the Jared Diet to the lines at Walgreens. Jokes may often begin with the phrase, "Did you ever notice?..." or "What's the deal with...?", and may end with ...'What's that about?'."

Seems easy enough, so whiling away the hours at the doctors today, I thought I'd give it a go.

Ahem, (clears throat)

Have you ever noticed that when you're in the doctor's wating room everyone who goes in before you takes twenty minutes with the doc, and then you're in and out in two minutes? What's that all about?

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