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Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution
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Re: I click the wrong link and end up back in the Questionable Content forum?
[quote name="Dan Savage"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]I have been linking this video way too many times on a site that is supposed to be the successor to Old Man Murray. "Hey Erik, that monster in the screenshot next to the crates is not actually KISS!" "Hey Mischief Maker, Zen Buddhism is a religion!"[/quote] And what do I say when different people keep misunderstanding your "objectively funny" intentions and you're surprised that the same problem shows up wherever you go? And what advice do I give when your friends are telling you you're being an asshole? It sounds to me like you have a hard-on for a type of humor that you aren't capable enough to deliver without needing to grudgingly cough up a joke-killing explanation afterward. That's <i>fine</i>. Whatever turns your crank, right? And you're better off than the centaur fetishists - your fantasy could conceivably become real! Maybe one day you'll get up the courage to test yourself on that real-life standup stage you so glibly invoke, and you'll practice and practice and just maaaaybe? <i><small>possibly?</small></i> become like your heroes, able to seduce nubile young audiences with your witty reworking of their own hypocrisies. But right now, your act is falling flat with your partners, and you need to <i>listen to them</i>. What's the measure of a comedian's success? Is it that he's "objectively funny" in his own opinion? Or is it that he didn't have to come crawling back after the act like a worthless bag of slop to explain his joke and try to convince everybody of how funny it was? You're hungry for varsity-level humor, and you might think you're ready for it, and you might be right! But it's not only your call to make. Because it takes two to laugh at a joke. Even if Andy Kaufman is the one making it. Next caller.[/quote]