Laughable Things

Have you ever read or seen something hilarious that isn't as funny as you really think it is? Trust me, I have. The most boring or unamusing thing ever will most certainly make me laugh my butt off. Afterwords, I think to myself...maybe that would make anyone laugh. But I don't know...what do you think?

Picture it...you are watching a movie on YouTube. A scene with a bucket in a chair shows up on your computer screen. The confused, drawn-on face doesn't move...then you hear it...the high-pitched voice off-camera saying, "Are you bashin' us?" You chuckle and then continue to watch. The bucket shows up on your moniter again, however, and this time, he's angry. "Are you askin' for it?" How can this get any better? If you said someone putting the bucket on their head and fighting...you'd be correct! And sure enough...some short little freak is wearing the bucket in the next clip. And she is kicking butt. With one last gut punch, she walks offscreen and pauses the camera. Meanwhile, you there, in your computer chair, have fallen to the floor with uncontrollable giggles. You finally catch your breath after ten minutes of hysterical chipmunk laughter and play the loop over again...and over and over and over again...

Now what about something live that's funny? Like...I don't know...your father running into the dining room with a metal bowl on his head like a helmet? And the fact that he's banging it with a spoon doesn't help you catch your breath either...well get ready to call 911 because, good news, the bowl is stuck. It takes five minutes, four hands and a lot of elbow grease to get the sucker off. And while your on the floor peeing your pants from laughing, you notice the red ring imprinted in your father's head from the bowl. Hilarious...right?

I must tell you that what you have just read is not a wonderful piece of fiction. They are true stories that happened to me personally, with my wo friends and parents along for the ride. Now...I ask you...was that funny?