Dual Humour

During Fringe, I saw Elizabeth McCain's excellent one woman's show.  I wrote about it here.  She told her story with grace and humour.  It was about her life, growing up lesbian in the deep south.  I noticed the audience laughed at her situations in groups: southerners, gays, and civilians (in this context, that includes me) would laugh at different parts.

I have also noticed you can get laughs from different groups with the same joke.

Are you familiar with a mermaid's purse?  I've found these mysterious objects washed up on shore

"mermaid's purse"

many times before I found out both their common name and what they are: egg cases for some sharks.  I sometimes pick up items from the beach and I have one somewhere.  Hey, in the pre-interwebs days it wasn't so easy.  I think I found in the LaRousse encyclopedia of animals.

I described this to a civilian friend and said "I kept it because it goes well with a couple of my dresses" which got a laugh because, hey, why would I possibly have dresses?

I described this to a t-friend and said the same line and got a laugh because, well, it's way too small to be a useful purse.

I need to find more ways to do a double-joke. 

Hopefully, a better one than that one. :)

I am a bit backlogged right now.  Halloween has come and gone, and, before that, I had a fun day at the Renaissance Festival.  But the last few weeks of writing has taken a lot out of me, and I'm going to take a couple of days off.  Saturday and Sunday I think I will see what "relationship" cartoons I have and I'll be writing more next week.

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That's Not Funny

Are there any funny transvestite jokes?  I can't find any, I can't think of any I might have heard.  Are all of the jokes visual?  I mean, what we do is visual, so that might make sense.  There are lots of gay jokes, S&M jokes, jokes about other "offbeat" practices.

Q: What's the definition of a transvestite?
A: A guy who likes to eat, drink, and be Mary.

OK, that's kind of exhausted all of the jokes.  I did ask if there are any "funny transvestite jokes."  This doesn't qualify.  (Neither does the Monica Lewinsky joke.)

Humour can be mean, but humour can also lead to acceptance.  It's the principle of "any publicity is good publicity."

Maybe I need to listen to more Eddie Izzard.

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