joke "contemporary music"

[gusl]

BarGirl is a conductor for a community orchestra in Amsterdam Noord:

GuitarPlayer - What does contemporary music mean?
BarGirl - Just means that the composer is still alive.
Me - So what if the composer dies the night before a concert?
Me - You can't play it anymore!
Me - (stern voice) "Ladies and gentleman, let's take 30 minutes of silence".
(I do these short monologues more often than most people. Most of the time I set myself up for the joke unintentionally. The jokes come as I'm speaking and I laugh a couple of seconds before everyone.)

Comments

[jetcat.livejournal.com]

i must be missing something, b/c i really don't see why that's funny.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Well, my sense of humour can be exceedingly silly, but do you see why some people might think it's funny?

Clue: There are two reasons why they would take 30 minutes of silence. Which reasons do you see?

[jetcat.livejournal.com]

yeah, i got that, but i didn't seem at all funny to me. so i figured there must be something else i was missing. do most ppl find that funny? am i aberrant b/c i don't, or are you the weird one b/c you do?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

oh well, if you saw me improvising it on the spot, it might have been funny. Form and context are very important in humour. I only transcribed the logic.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

What about this?

I'm riding in a car with my college buddies back from North Carolina, where we had a party week, to Pennsylvania, where we're about to graduate.
We would stop every few hours to change drivers. After 2 or 3 decent drivers and 9 hours worth of road, when we're finally 10 minutes away from our destination, Mike decides to drive. But he's a *REALLY*BAD* driver.

Me - Shit man! Jesus!!! Look out! I don't wanna die! This is not how I wanted to spend the last hours of my life, in a fucking car!!!

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

actually, I had said:

if we die now, it'll be huge waste! A waste of 10 fucking hours!