Week 18: Laughter is the best medicine

 Type of writing: A list of all the things I can't wait for Kit to laugh at.




 

1.     A loud fart in a quiet classroom.

2.     A man in a suit tripping but not falling.

3.     Cracker jokes at Christmas.

4.     Shops that have puns for names.

5.     Brent dance.

6.     ‘Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan. DAN!’

7.     Del Boy and Rodney running through the mist as Batman and Robin.

8.     The 'Ski Lodge' episode of Frasier. 

9.     A child interrupting a Zoom news interview.

10.  The referee falling over.

11.  Malcolm Tucker’s grandiloquent swearing.

12.  The repetition of Stewart Lee.

13.  The repetition of Stewart Lee.

14.  The repetition of Stewart Lee.

15.  Where the brakes go on someone so they can’t stop laughing despite their best efforts.

16.  Daniel Kitson riffing.

17.  Back and forth between Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado.

18.  The voice of Kenneth Williams.

19.  The Ballad of Barry and Freda.

20.  A pupil answering the register, ‘Yes, mum.’

21.  A pupil answering the register, ‘Yes, dad.’

22.  David Schwimmer’s mock-hurt when he rasps, ‘Fine by me!’

23.  The Ministry of Silly Walks.

24.  Richard E Grant in Withnail and I.

25.  The slapstick set-pieces of Paddington.

26.  Someone who gets the hiccups.

27.  The word ‘hiccup.’

28.  Silent comedy.

29.  The bathroom scene of Bridesmaids.

30.  The deliberately retro lexicon of James Acaster.

31.  Larry David digging yet another hole.

32.  The Speed episode of Father Ted.

33.  Twat by John Cooper Clarke.

34.  All of the Adrian Mole novels.

35.  P.G. Wodehouse.

36.  Bill Murray’s face.

37.  A lady on a mobility scooter eating a Jaffa Cake. (We saw this yesterday. It’s not the mobility scooter that’s funny per se; it’s the snack alongside it.)

38.  Comics who use product specificity. A Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer, for example, is funnier than a chocolate biscuit.

39.  An adult on a bicycle that’s too small for them.

40.  A Conservative politician in a sex scandal.

41.  Princess Bride – the novel is even funnier than the film.

42.  Martin Parr’s photography.

43.  An older relative snoring on their favourite seat.

44.  Charades at Christmas.

45.  Stonehenge in Spinal Tap.

46.  “Rubber dinghy rapids.”

47.  Speeches at a wedding.

48.  A baby’s laughter.

49.  A teacher who reads a funny book and does the voices really well.

50.  Me. Your dad.


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