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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by matheusmoreira on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:41AM (#37416650)
Can you post some examples of her unfunny jokes?
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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by chaps on Thursday September 07, 2023 @07:57AM (#37417650)
Sure, it's a knock-knock joke though. You start.
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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by matheusmoreira on Thursday September 07, 2023 @09:53AM (#37418938)
Knock knock...
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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by chaps on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:56AM (#37420878)
Who's there?
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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by matheusmoreira on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:15PM (#37421231) 

  Error: unknown user `there`
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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by klondike_klive on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:17AM (#37431778)
My grandad's favourite joke :)
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Re:Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible bo... by suzzer99 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @11:57AM (#37420901)
It wasn't as much the jokes as it was her delivery, her aura, etc.

For a while she dated one of the more established comedians, who would either feed her jokes, or help her work up her own material.

So the jokes were pretty good. But it didn't matter. She might get half a laugh on the first joke, and then it was dead silence for the rest of the show.

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