You're not funny... mate.

Tonight while doing my thursday night shift at the pub, i walked past a table where i heard "You can not say Flith-floring flith!" in a stupid put on american accent where a guy was trying to pull off Eddie Murphy's skit of Bill Cosby (from Delirious).

As much as his friends laughing, I really didnt find it funny. And before I knew it (much to my expectations) I hear "IM RICK JAMES, BITCH".

No. You are not Rick James. He is dead. The only person who can say that without sounding like a total fucktard (debatable) is Dave Chappelle. And you are not funny.

Why do people try and recycle jokes from stand up shows? Do they think that repeating jokes from shows that all their friends have seen is going to make it funny for them?

because different people are different.

if they find it funny and it's not offensive then what do you really care?

everyone has a different sense of humor, maybe they liked the joke and felt like repeating it, live with it.

Maddox has dicussed that particular phenomenon

People do quote Little Britain here a fair bit, but I think the largest trend was the height of Bo Selecta. You could not walk down any street after dark without hearing someone scream "EEE-HEEE! CHAMONE MUTHAFUCKA!"

I don't get it myself. Some people I know will not laugh at anything until you quote something from Family Guy to them, which I guess the show itself is just a montage of references, so it probably suits them down to the ground.

My brothers and I constantly quote lines from Family Guy, Black Books, Futurama....

Why?

Because pop culture references hold families together.

I do that all of the time but I'm good at it.

I like some pop culture references, especially when they have a deeper significance to the group of people I'm offering them at. Red Vs. Blue, for instance, calls up a lot of good stories and fond memories amongst my friends, and various memes and in jokes stem from pop culture references. We've worked 'In Soviet Russia' to a fine point.

At the same time, though, we make our own little things, like throwing one finger up in the air and screaming 'SCIENCE!' as a demonstration of our love for shiny high technology that we can't understand.

haha

"do people laugh when you pop a recycled line?"

- yes

"Then have a coke and a smile and STFU".

Whoa it's like you took my mutant thoughts and multiplied them one thousandfold.

wow. I really laughed hard at that one. Did you spend ages thinking that one up? No, thats right, you copied someone else.

GO YOU!

i'm rick james, bitch.

I used to recycle jokes fairly often. I could never get them right, but that was the humor in it. One joke that I used to tell in highschool all the time started something like, "So there's this guy at a barn and he tells the other guy, I bet I can make your horse laugh..." I would continue, but I've never known how the joke goes. That's all I would have to say and people would start laughing... at me.

I hear where your coming from it's ont ehing if their at their house having a good time and doing it but out in public is just fuckin annoying. I've told many people to shut the fuck up over that in my town.

For me personally its not so much that people or myself are laughing at the specific retelling, but that it reminds them of when they saw/heard the joke in its original context by the original performer that makes it funny.

In other words, they might just be telling the joke, but in my head I'm remembering the scene, and rembering my response to it. Its why usually people will only laugh if its something they've seen before. Its not giving credit so much to the person in front of them re-enacting it.

At least, thats why I laugh.

Yup. It's a shared memory thing. "I pranked him to death with my tire iron" stays funny when it's retold because it was so fucking funny in the first place.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!

OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!


YEEEEEEEEAHHHHHH!!!

I saw Mitch Hedberg at the Improv in DC. Some fat, pasty comedy central addict was screaming "I'm Rick James Bitch" every few seconds before the show. Sure enough, he was loud and obnoxious through Mitch's entire set. I'd skin his fingers if I could.

Yes it's annoying. It's annoying on kids in line for bands, it's annoying on guys in bars (it's usually guys IME) and it's annoying when it's they people you work with, and it's "ARE YOU LOCAL???" or "HELLO DAVE!!!" every- fucking- ten- minutes.

You'll be the jerk for complaining about it, though.

Yes. Just like quoting entertaining parts of movies is fun.

thank you

Reciting "Delirious" is our way of avoiding monotony at work. Most of us know it back to front.

Faves:
"Along came a big brown shark"
"Goony-goo-goo"
"Hey boy, you look mighty fine in them jeans"

But we are easily entertained.

Anyone in the audience get hit by a car?


I once heard some kid doing the "what does that one chunk want?" bit and it went down like a lead thing. The fact that Eddie M used it as an example of the sort of lame thing he said when he was a kid seemed to have passed this kid by.

exactly my point, and then all these hippies in this thread try to tell me its cool to do so.

its not.

Ive come to one conclusion in life, certain things are few and far between. The usual ones that people quote are death and taxes. I would include shit jokes to that pile.

Live and let live, quote if you want, but I'm not going to listen.
Me personally? I never think its funny and it makes me think you're kind of dumb if you do it alot. If you've got a decent noodle in your noggin I expect you can string together your own words.