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How to Ruin a Joke
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Brody meets his coworker Mike at a coffee shop and agrees to repeat a joke that has been making the rounds at work. Mike’s enthusiastic laughter seems encouraging until it interrupts even the simplest parts of the setup. Brody struggles to reach the ending, then discovers that the intended punch line is the one thing Mike does not find funny. Attempts to explain the misunderstanding only leave both men convinced that the other must be putting on an act.
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I haven't even gotten to the setup yet.
The punch line was the only part that you didn't laugh at.
Script
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- 00:00
Brody
Thank you.
- 00:07
Brody
Mike!
- 00:07
Mike
Brody!
- 00:08
Brody
Yeah!
- 00:08
Mike
Hey, how are you?
- 00:09
Brody
What's up, man?
- 00:09
Mike
Good to see you. Hey, I'm glad I ran into you. What is that joke that you told recently at the office? Everybody is just like giggling about it all the time and I haven't heard it yet.
- 00:18
Brody
Oh, gosh. Okay. Um, all right, it goes like this. So there's this woman. Okay.
- 00:29
Mike
I'm sorry.
- 00:29
Brody
Good audience.
- 00:30
Mike
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I love it already. I love it.
- 00:35
Brody
Awesome. Okay. Well, this should go well. Oh, so there's this woman and she goes to her doctor.
- 00:43
Mike
She goes to the doctor! It's already funny! It's already funny!
- 00:48
Brody
No, I haven't even gotten to the set up yet.
- 00:53
Brody
So she goes to her doctor and she says to her doctor, kiss me. No, that's not it. That's not it. That's not the punchline.
- 01:05
Mike
You're You got to stop man, killing me over here.
- 01:11
Brody
I don't know if you think the joke is over, but it's not, it's actually just started.
- 01:19
Brody
Okay, so I'm gonna I'm just gonna speed it up. So she says to her doctor kiss me. He says I can't it would be unprofessional no no not even close she says Says that would be a professional She keeps asking him and he says no Finally at the end she says And he says I shouldn't even be having sex with you right now
- 01:46
Mike
Now, then what happens?
- 01:50
Brody
I
- 01:54
Brody
I don't know. Then I guess she probably sued him for malpractice.
- 01:59
Mike
I sued him for malpractice
- 02:09
Brody
So you know that wasn't the punch line.
- 02:12
Mike
That wasn't the punch line?
- 02:13
Brody
No, the punch line.
- 02:14
Mike
There's more?
- 02:15
Brody
No, there's not. There's not more.
- 02:18
Mike
There's more in the joke.
- 02:20
Brody
No, there's actually less.
- 02:22
Mike
What is it? You turned it around.
- 02:26
Brody
No, there's.
- 02:27
Mike
You turned it around.
- 02:28
Brody
The joke was.
- 02:32
Mike
It can't be less.
- 02:33
Brody
The punchline was the only part that you didn't laugh at.
- 02:36
Brody
You What the ? You got me, you were doing a joke the whole time! were doing a weird character the whole time.
- 02:51
Mike
Yes, yes, I love the malpractice stuff. The malpractice punchline is hilarious.
- 02:59
Brody
So you weren't doing a character.
- 03:01
Mike
What character, what character? This is some crazy .
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