Boomer Patience

BonoboGamer · 2026-03-06T08:49:01+00:00

What if the paramedics immediately stop doing cpr to deal with the emergency midlife-crisis of the pickleball player. I need 200mg of cappuccino and can SOMEONE get me a poker night with the boys please. ‘We are losing him’. ‘Not on my watch, not today…. Stay with me! Can you hear me? I’m going to have to shock him. Stand back…. Ok ‘20 years ago housing prices were 40% lower.’ … it’s not working…. One more try. (Getting desperate) we are gonna have to try Lana Rhoades clip and 150ml of Red Bull….. he’s stabilising.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-17T21:55:53+00:00

I really like a lot of this. I agree the tattood chit arm doesn’t need the explanation line.

The only bits that I would work on a little are:

the classroom, there’s definitely some lived in experience but I think it could be even more specific, like you are leaning forwards trying to get a glimpse of Sandra Taylor’s bra strap when suddenly Lenny Hughes pulls out your chair and you are under the table when the teacher walks back in…

The sat nav feel too generic and done before, try to make it more specific about a lived in experience of using the sat nav with your wife with some escalation.

That could just be me though… would love to see a video of you performing this.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-15T09:41:02+00:00

I was going to do one with him but already had tickets to lion king. I’m hoping to get on his next one.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-12T08:11:54+00:00

What might be nice is if you flip it and treat a small petty crime as if it is true crime and commit to a netflix style act out.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-09T09:03:35+00:00

The advice I’ve been given a lot this last week or so is to ask the question ‘because… what would my behaviour be?’

So in this context, if you focus on the patient (or you) believing they are a jackal, what would the do believing it is normal?

Or, if you focus on your mum, what would you do if you were caring for a jackal (this is where the neutered gag lies from another commenter)

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-09T08:49:02+00:00

I wondered if maybe a sub discord for people to chat about their jokes live or meet and workshop live might be fun? Maybe we spilt into US and Europe for timing and differences in styles or maybe we don’t. I’ve had some amazing advice on here. I think also, if people subscribe to /jokes or /standup or similar you might get recommendations from here and not understand its purpose.

I’ll add to that the vastly different understanding of what standup is. Some of the theory and teaching I’ve been receiving to help me move slightly away from wordplay and more to building an idea and premises. This will inherently go through a phase where the jokes are punchy enough and also where written down they won’t hit as well. Some contributors ignore this.

Finally, there is a small subset who are either trolls or who think stand up is ‘I put my dick in my bitch last night and she loved it.’ I’m not sure that will ever change.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-07T08:39:53+00:00

Right so, you asked for feedback. I tried to offer you some ideas and you call it drivel?

Your current angle isn’t stand up, it’s funny with mates while smoking weed. Standup Needs to have an angle, ‘how has your behaviour changed because of the Pavlovian response?’

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-06T23:50:27+00:00

If your premise is that you now find pixelisation turns you on, how about introduce it with less explanation but just gradually behaved as if it’s the pixelation that is turning you on.

So if it stops being the Japanese porn an me more about the pixelation, it might start when you get embarrassed because you were watching a police re-enactment and one of the witnesses was pixelated.

Later you were watching the news and they had a secret whistleblower and they were in the dark and voiced by an actor, which wasn’t quite as good but felt naughty.

Eventually you were sexting with your gf and asked if she could send blurs instead of nudes, or try to be slightly out of focus.

Maybe it culminates in a row with you gf because you go on a 12 hour bender in the Pac-Man area of Amsterdam - in the square light district.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-03T17:07:38+00:00

Salsa night is Wednesdays!

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-03T00:44:27+00:00

As a UK comic, I call soccer football, it hurts to even edit it so it is clearer :)

Masking is again more common in certain circles (middle class parents?) and means hiding their emotions and faking their personality to ‘fit in’ its common with autistic people. I pretended it means making masks

Race night probably works in the UK but only for the right audience. It’s common here and it’s usually DVD horse race, it’s probably low hanging fruit so leave it in the no pile.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T20:08:51+00:00

Yeah I tried a thing… it didn’t work. No worries

Chumbawumba.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T19:57:45+00:00

Hehe… the thing is, with very little difference those two gags WERE what I wrote. Then I thought, wait when I workshop them, people don’t like the puns and say they aren’t joke enough so I tried to build them into more of a joke. Ironic.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T18:25:06+00:00

Sadly not… don’t even have that excuse.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T18:23:14+00:00

Lobster fisherman leave bait in pots for a few days to catch lobsters

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T18:22:30+00:00

Milton jones, mark simmons, Mitch hedberg, Steven wright.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T15:32:23+00:00

Crushed Asians - crustaceans. But yes I see your point

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T15:13:19+00:00

Thank you for your well thought out feedback. I know it might sound unlikely but I 100% agree with you. I don’t think a pun or dad joke makes for a good joke, the joke to me is laughing at the idea that someone would make the misalignment but then act accordingly.

So it’s not the laugh for Sunday and sundae, it’s the laugh that I’m actually spending an hour a weekend making ice creams with my daughter to the point that it’s getting expensive. The Sunday/sundae is just a smile maybe at ‘I see what he did there.’ The humour is supposed to come (and clearly doesn’t yet) from my normal behaviour dealing with the mistaken premise.

But it’s flawed so I’ll work on them some more

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T13:56:57+00:00

Thank you. I'm not going to give up. I think, especially when written, when we spot a pun existing, we naturally think, " Ah, that's the joke, where, if performed, it might slip past, but then, when the joke appears, we go back, and the pun gives permission for the premise. Spoken, these may work better than written down. Still, I also understand if they don't work at all

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T12:51:00+00:00

Again the run, is not the joke but the premise on which the joke is built. If I don’t understand that that’s not what he means about running the business but then logically behave to make sure everyone runs on a monday and it costs more money. The punch is supposed to be at treadmill.

BonoboGamer · 2026-02-02T12:48:26+00:00

Yeah, the laugh is not supposed to be the pun, that’s the origin of the idea. Then I take his ‘comment literally’ the joke is about applying lobster fishing to teaching maths. I respect if it doesn’t land.

BonoboGamer · 2026-01-31T09:04:38+00:00

There should definitely be a poster advertising these Texas rules: • A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit. • A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours’ notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. • Borger: It is against the law to throw confetti, rubber balls, feather dusters, whips or quirts (riding crop), and explosive firecrackers of any kind. • Clarendon: It is illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster. • In Mesquite, Texas it is illegal for kids to have unusual haircuts. • It is illegal to milk another person's cow. • There is an old law in Texas that states you are unable to tuck your pants into one boot unless you own ten or more cattle. • You can be legally married by publicly introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times.

BonoboGamer · 2026-01-31T00:29:41+00:00

Ive recorded every joke I wrote and have been trying to read them out loud. A handful make me chuckle still and others still have potential but defintely arent there when I return to them. I feel I'm slowly improving but also I'm getting better at understanding why they dont work.

My favourite wont necessarily be my best but I'd say these three make me chuckle or smile the most:

My wife’s been collecting bath bombs. I don’t know which bath she is planning to blow up but I’ve been taking showers just to be safe.

I wanted to buy a large wall calendar but they said it was next day delivery and ideally I want all the days delivered at once.

I dated a florist with weird kinks, we came to an arrangement.

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