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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Some years ago, there was a comedian on Letterman who did a sitting-in-the-chair-talking-to-Dave routine instead of a stand-up routine. I don't remember much about his routine, but he killed. It was something about a fire in his living room, perhaps at Christmas, and he just kept following up with more jokes about it. The punchline of the last one was, "So we had to set a backfire on the cat." In context, it totally killed, and is my nominee.
Out of context, not so much. Flipping channels a few years later, I came upon the middle of the routine, and was entirely unimpressed by the thing about the cat. So I guess you had to be there.
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The two stand up lines I always remember that are so funny and probalby wont be when I post them are:
1. some woman comedian, whose name I do not knwo, but had kind of a weird high pitched voice. "It is such a pain in the ass being a single woman. Even if you are just running down the street to the store (paraphraase here) you have to spend a half hour doijng your hair and your make up and finding something to wear that is flattering but has to appear effortless. Because you never know when you will meet Mr. You Might Do. "
2) the other one is Chris Rock's thing about AIDS testing and the Ghost of Pussy Past.
