A short post!
Let's say you're the Best Man and you have the difficult task of making a speech.
Brainstorm
You'll start by brainstorming everything you know about the Groom, including anything unusual that happened on his stag night. Let's say that at one point we took a short cut through a field towards another pub and the Groom stepped in a small but smelly pond.
If this actually happened, I'd want to be ready to pounce and produce a joke. I'd be asking myself everything I know about ponds and would certainly encounter the words 'stagnant' and 'stagnate' during the process.
If this actually happened, I'd want to be ready to pounce and produce a joke. I'd be asking myself everything I know about ponds and would certainly encounter the words 'stagnant' and 'stagnate' during the process.
a little bell
A little bell will instantly go off in my head as I realise that 'stagnate' and 'stag night' aren't a million miles from each other. They link / connect because they sound much the same.
Once we've dressed this idea up a little, we get today's Joke for today:
Once we've dressed this idea up a little, we get today's Joke for today:
the joke for today
I'd like to tell you a little story from Gavin's stag night. We took one of his so-called short cuts across a field and he stepped into a hidden murky pond. I'm sorry to say that from then on the evening degenerated from 'stag night' into 'stagnate.'
Something good did come out of this though: whenever we went into a pub, the smell from Gary's duckweed-covered trousers drove other customers out and we got served straightaway.
I'd like to add that we didn't go back the way we came.
The second and third paragraphs / lines are there to illustrate how a speaker might come down from a strong gag before moving on to the next.
At a wedding, you've normally got a slightly tipsy audience in front of you, who are likely to be totally on your side. The punchline 'from 'stag night' to 'stagnate' will very likely make such an audience laugh... and all it is really is a simple near-pun.
Something good did come out of this though: whenever we went into a pub, the smell from Gary's duckweed-covered trousers drove other customers out and we got served straightaway.
I'd like to add that we didn't go back the way we came.
The second and third paragraphs / lines are there to illustrate how a speaker might come down from a strong gag before moving on to the next.
At a wedding, you've normally got a slightly tipsy audience in front of you, who are likely to be totally on your side. The punchline 'from 'stag night' to 'stagnate' will very likely make such an audience laugh... and all it is really is a simple near-pun.
A challenge
Could you do something like this?
I strongly suggest that you can.
Why not find a rhyming dictionary (on online one is fine) and scan through looking for puns and near-puns that might become gags and try to package them?
Keep trying and you'll get there.
Cheerio for now!
Best regards,
Marc
I strongly suggest that you can.
Why not find a rhyming dictionary (on online one is fine) and scan through looking for puns and near-puns that might become gags and try to package them?
Keep trying and you'll get there.
Cheerio for now!
Best regards,
Marc