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08-22-2017 , 05:20 AM

raidalot

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A light-hearted thread to make a change from the scammers and Amaya's greed.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/20...-funniest-joke

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Cheng has spoken of the similarities between comedy and poker. “The two fields of poker and comedy actually have a surprising amount in common,” he said. “The first similarity is how both are based around a constant barrage of either extreme punishment or reward. In poker, it’s money; in comedy, it’s laughs.

“Every day you sit down at the poker table you could win or lose hundreds and, by the same notion, every time you step on stage you could kill or bomb.”

Some decent jokes in the article!

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08-22-2017 , 05:54 AM

Limitbreak

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Seen this too, wonder what stakes and games he played

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08-22-2017 , 07:13 AM

Daveshoelace

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He talks a bit about poker here too

http://www.chortle.co.uk/corresponde...tand-up_comedy

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08-22-2017 , 09:00 AM

SlowlyMovin

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“I’m not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change.” Ken Cheng

rofl good one

“Whenever someone says, ‘I don’t believe in coincidences’, I say, ‘Oh my God, me neither!’” Alasdair Beckett-King

Also good one, rest was decent imo

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08-22-2017 , 09:06 AM

raidalot

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I liked ... “I wonder how many chameleons snuck on to the Ark.”

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08-22-2017 , 09:14 AM

hedgecock

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Originally Posted by raidalot

I liked ... “I wonder how many chameleons snuck on to the Ark.”

Yeah, this one tickled me too, and the darker humour as well: “I wasn’t particularly close to my dad before he died ... which was lucky, because he trod on a landmine.”

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08-22-2017 , 09:38 AM

the4bettingmonk

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Kurt Vonnegut said writing tragedy is way easier than comedy - said writing a joke is like setting up a mousetrap - it can be extremely elaborate and detailed, but without a snap the whole thing blows up in your face.

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08-22-2017 , 09:41 AM

the4bettingmonk

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Sickest year for any comedian in history was 1994 when Jim Carrey 's movies Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber all came out. Rare for an actor to have 3 smashes in one year, but a comedian?

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08-22-2017 , 09:52 AM

pocket_zeros

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British humor is like Tang; it needs a a large glass of water to be palatable.

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08-22-2017 , 10:51 AM

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One_Of-A_Kind

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Originally Posted by the4bettingmonk

Sickest year for any comedian in history was 1994 when Jim Carrey 's movies Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber all came out. Rare for an actor to have 3 smashes in one year, but a comedian?

Jim Carrey was always Robin Williams' heir apparent IMHO

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08-22-2017 , 11:28 AM

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grunderson

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Arbitrarily comparing things reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KH28KuZ3I

Those other jokes are god awful, this one especially:

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“Trump’s nothing like Hitler. There’s no way he could write a book.” Frankie Boyle

He did write book, a famous one in fact about deal making. How ignorant can you be.

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08-22-2017 , 12:00 PM

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PeteBlow

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Originally Posted by grunderson

Arbitrarily comparing things reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_KH28KuZ3I

Those other jokes are god awful, this one especially:

He did write book, a famous one in fact about deal making. How ignorant can you be.

I bet you heckle at comedians

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08-22-2017 , 12:19 PM

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Hood

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Originally Posted by grunderson

He did write book, a famous one in fact about deal making. How ignorant can you be.

Not sure if level.

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08-22-2017 , 12:27 PM

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ArtyMcFly

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Originally Posted by Daveshoelace

He talks a bit about poker here too
http://www.chortle.co.uk/corresponde...tand-up_comedy

Nice link. Cheers Barry.

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08-22-2017 , 12:39 PM

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namisgr11

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Originally Posted by Hood

Not sure if level.

Honestly.

The Art Of The Deal was written by journalist Tony Schwartz. According to the book's publisher, Trump did no writing for the book.

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08-22-2017 , 05:49 PM

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TrustySam

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Those are fun articles!

Many very smart, clever jokes on the list - am fond of the silly ones too

eg.

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08-22-2017 , 07:12 PM

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PeteBlow

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The truly funny thing about the best joke at Edinburgh list is that 90% of them aren't even new.

Yes, Tim Vine, I'm talking about you. Every year.

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09-08-2017 , 07:05 AM

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Daveshoelace

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Interview with him here:

https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/w...-poker/101946/

Big 7-2 player and 2+2 member in turns out:

I went down the route of playing the nichest games possible, a big source of income for me was 2-7 Triple Draw, I played huge stakes for a while, not anymore as the games dried up, I used to be one of the top Triple Draw players, the highest I played was $200/$400. My screen name was ‘stryd0r’.

and

A lot of poker players can be funny, I find reading 2+2 very funny, some of the comedy threads on there are very very funny. I think there is a potential for poker players to be funny, I think it would invigorate spectator poker.

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09-08-2017 , 08:57 AM

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8ROM

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Originally Posted by grunderson

Frankie Boyle is a British comedian though and our current generation of comedians are all whining left wing virtue signallers, they have to be to appeal to the young audience here. Bring back Bernard Manning!

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09-08-2017 , 09:38 AM

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chasepoker

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Originally Posted by pocket_zeros

British humor is like Tang; it needs a a large glass of water to be palatable.

British humour is spelt correctly.

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09-08-2017 , 10:33 AM

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BigAisaOK

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Funny! I played with this guy a bunch back in the day on FullTilt in 5card and primarily 6card PLO games so his story about playing the niche games checks out!

He was a good player too but comedy seems a better life choice, must be a blast.

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09-08-2017 , 11:16 AM

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sump

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Originally Posted by chasepoker

British humour is spelt correctly.

It is if the original commenter is Amurrrrican.

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09-08-2017 , 11:21 AM

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SageDonkey

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He should easily be able to make 1 small blind per night ($200/$400) traveling the UK comedy circuit, less travel expenses, with a ~2% chance of breaking into the elite group of comedians who get on UK TV panel shows and have lucrative sold out UK stand up tours.

But at least he'll never get killed in the game although he will occasionally die on stage.

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09-08-2017 , 11:41 AM

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BigAisaOK

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Sometimes passion > money Sage.

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09-08-2017 , 06:30 PM

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the_glaive

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I like this guy. I follow him on Twitter.

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