Fr-Fr-Fresh
Q: How do people know what is the best plastic container for their food?
A: They're Tup Aware.
Thursday 1 November 2007
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8 comments:
OK... Let me explain this to you Stewart Lee style... There are many different styles of humour but most posters to this blog only seem to adopt one - the use of sound-alike words and phrases. However, in order for a sound-alike joke to actually be funny (in the tradition sense), five conditions have to be fulfilled. Firstly, the punchline has to sound like one thing (the primary interpretation). Secondly, it has to sound like another thing (a second, more unlikely interpretation of the same phonemes). Thirdly, both those things have to be tied back to the set-up, so the set-up opens up the possibility of both interpretations from the one phrase. Fourth, both those interpretations should make sense in their own right. Fifth, and most importantly, the two interpretations, in relation to each other, and in combination with the set-up, should reveal something surprising, insightful, or otherwise unexpected about the state of affairs described in the joke taken as a whole.
Now, as you can see, this joke fulfils condition one, in as much as the punchline resembles the well known household item we call Tupperware ™. It just about fulfils condition two, in as much as at a stretch I can hear the phrase “Tup aware”. Condition three, that these two interpretations are tied back to the set-up, is a given, since the set-up has taken such great lengths to force the second interpretation into place.
However, as we can see, condition four is not successfully fulfilled, because in popular usage, there’s no such thing as a “Tup”, of which I’m likely to be aware of. The second interpretation fails to stand up on its own, and only exists as a twisted part of this joke. It’s malformed and pointless.
Of course, that wouldn’t matter so much if the fifth condition was fulfilled. If there were something about the “Tup” in this case that related to the initial set-up, or indeed to the whole premise of being aware of one’s kitchen storage containers, then it would be forgivable. But there’s no insight, and no surprise.
Essentially then, the joke as a whole is malformed. To put it in simple terms, the entire basis for humour in this style of joke is that one phrase sounds like another. If the one interpretation only half sounds like something else, then all you’re left with is half a joke at best, or a strange and trivial linguistic observation at worst.
OK, granted, there’s a strain of humour which finds entertainment value in shoddy construction and half jokes… But even in those cases I’d argue that there still needs to be some element of surprise or insight in the punchline for that joke to be truly fulfilling.
Stewart Lee... I like him. But it's a fairly narrow definition of a joke, don't you think? Besides which, we never claim that these jokes are great (in fact we mostly claim they're crap- often accurately!), but they are all homemade, which fulfils our conditions, even if it doesn't fulfil Stewart Lee's or your own. In the great pantheon of humour, there is a place even for the humble 'tup aware' punchline, and, to be fair, at least we're having a go. Just a bit of fun...
AND! There is such a word as 'tup'. It's a synonym of ram (as in a male sheep), but can also be used to describe the process whereby the ram spreads his fertile seed among all the slutty ewes, which occurs in 'tupping season', as every inbred yokel knows. Oo-ar!
Homemade jokes: educational AND not funny.
Alternative joke:
Why are sheep farmers good for keeping food fresh?
Because they're tup-aware.
Heh, heh, heh. Tup aware.
It's the best punchline I've ever heard! Works with any joke!
I wish somebody would deconstruct every joke on this blog. THAT would be hilarious.
Three months after the fact, I come back and re-read "dr. vincent stone's" comments (if you are so intelectual you should probably realise that the first letter of a name should be capitalised) and come tothe conclusion that he is a boring fart.
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