That might be the nicest thing someone has said about my joke making just cause you analyzed what I'm doing damn well. I've got Bender from Futurama lovable scamp appeal, so I'd be breaking kayfabe to be self deprecating in certain situations, I have reminding everyone that I'm secretly dumb as hell any time I fuck up part of an order (I work the window in aa kitchen). While doing buts it's my job to take take fall by being too confident when it's my turn. If you're an rlm fan, I'm a Mike and I have my own rich Evans at work and we got thatt rhythm. And then there's just asking people Eric Andre interview questions during super quiet periods. I was recently impressed by a guy who when the place was empty and it has been dead silence and chopping forever he just deadpanned "So, no judgement, what's your favorite race?" He's Cuban, I was the only white guy there, and the other 2 there were Japanese and Phillipino. I felt like a martial arts master passing on a secret move. How to read a room in a way to tell a potentially terrible joke in a way that is situationally funny as hell.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

It brought the house down.

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Tonight the same Cuban guy told me a joke I told a couple days ago has just been sticking with him and making him laugh at random times since. We work at an Italian restaurant and I said 'Do you know what they call a poor neighborhood in Italian?' 'nope' 'The spaghetto'. One time a server asked for an egg to make some weird cocktail and I asked 'chicken?' And she asked sincerely if we had other eggs and I said I'd found a sweet nest of crow eggs on my smoke break and they're in the walk in. She believed me.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People pay a lot more attention room to intonation than the content of speech thsn you'd think. Add the slightest plausibility and you can fuck with people. I told a dude that lentils got their name because they were one of the staple crops eaten during lent inidwvsl times. I'm generally also chock full of interesting info like that and I feel like seeing if I can slip in some absolute bullshit is fun for me but also good cause I've noticed that even though I am giving good Intel, that reputation of being knowledgeable means people will just believe you without investigation and feeding people a line of bullshit here and there which I do say was bullshit soon after is kinda good practice for showing people they'll believe whatever crap is served up to them if it's done right. I don't want inherent trust, I want my trust verified, I think it stands up to scrutiny.