Dwelling on the Funny

So the other day I was watching some old stand up comedy. It was George Carlin one of the guys I always tell people is one of my favorites.

It was good but man did it feel slightly dated. Sometimes I think about these things like are the jokes I'm making now going to be funny in 10,20 or 30 years.



Carlin is great and he really is one of the best to ever lived but to hear him crack jokes about Bill Clinton and "Shining Time Station" I realized that within another decade he may become irrelevant as a comedian.

Once kids grow up they aren't going to know who the fuck Bill Clinton was or that there ever existed a show called "Shining Time Station."

Its like these cultural moments will die and the people who made jokes about them will fade from memory.

I think about how guys like Joe Rogan talk about Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison they were all before my time and really besides their legacies I'm really not that interested in their comedy.

It doesn't resonate with me at all to be truthful. I wasn't born in that time or I wasn't a part of that generation when they were at the height of their popularity. I can maybe listen to them as a social commentary on a world that no longer exists.

I know this is a heady thought but it really makes me wonder as I'm starting out how to write good jokes. Do I stick to jokes that are all poop, fart, cumming and cruelty jokes or do I try to elevate myself to some sort of social commentator.

I think the former rather then the later will always stay relevant but being a commentator gets you more respect.

The thing is I hate preachy people. This is not a funny joke in fact it isn't really a joke at all and I doubt this will ever make it into a bit. Instead this is me thinking about funny.

Whats funny then isn't funny now and I'm not trying to immortalize myself in fact starting out my goal is just trying to make people laugh. But I think there is this fear by human beings of being forgotten or just not existing.

It's why religion exists I guess to sort of address a fear that there is nothing else on the other side. When people don't live life the way they had wanted they use religion as a crutch for being pathetically boring all their life.

Which brings me into my next bit....