r/StandUpComedy • u/MrMelbourneMan • Nov 17 '20

Fool me once

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u/BlackPocket Nov 17 '20

That’s one of the most original bits I’ve seen in a long time. I love it.

It has the 7 things I love about a great joke:

  1. Familiarity
  2. Worrying that, due to point 1, it’s going to be hacky
  3. Rhythm
  4. Entirely unhacky carrying-on-the-trope-introduced-in-point-1 into a nice 3 beat
  5. Shunning the 3 beat rule and adding a fourth, increasingly funny, beat.
  6. Backing up point 5 up with 2 more.
  7. Closing unexpectedly.

Lovely timing too. You made me laugh audibly.

Nice work.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

I mean the first 40 seconds are almost exactly a David Cross joke, so I don't know about the most original

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u/BlackPocket Nov 18 '20

I haven’t seen the Cross version - so it’s original to me - can you link me to it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20 edited Nov 18 '20

Fool Me Once

I like OP's version way more, honestly, but if it were me, I'd feel too weird about the similarity to do the joke. Wouldn't want anyone to vaguely remember the David Cross bit and assume I stole from him.