I’ve been trying a little witnessed consciousness of late, hoping to get a better handle on that age-old question, “Daddy, where do jokes come from?”
\nWhat I discovered surprised me. This isn’t true every time, but a lot of the time, right before I make a joke, it turns out that there’s this moment when I realize a joke’s hanging out there, ready to be made before<\/i> I actually know what the joke is. Someone will say something, or I’ll read something, or a cat will jump on something, and my “shtick sense” will start tingling. “Potential comedy, now in vicinity.”
\nSo I’Il start poking around to see if I can find it — it’s like I’m trying to locate a chair in a dark room. Sometimes the chair’s small and the room’s large. Other times the chair’s large and the room’s small.
\nI’d never picked up on this before in part because the whole process tends to move pretty fast, and in part because I think I’m just generally too dang giddy with, “Hey! A joke!” to stop and take notes.
\nBut it’s a little odd, isn’t it?
\nI’m going to make a leap and assume this isn’t just a quirk of me, but it’s the way shtick is sometimes formed. If that’s true, what does it mean? What does it mean that our nether-brains can sense the presence of a joke before our conscious minds know what’s so funny? And that those same nether-brains don’t bother to share the joke with our conscious minds, but instead just give a nod to say, “Hey — pally — joke opportunity here”…?
\nDoes it mean that our subconscious mind likes to tell jokes to itself in nether-brain-ese, and is sort of a jerk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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