The Make us Laugh Challenge Thread

[Caete]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Everyone who gets this reference is showing their age...

 

[Kokoro Fasching]

 

[Free]

Everyone who gets this reference is showing their age...

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Ha ha ha ha ha.

Everyone who gets this reference is showing their age...

Fuck! I'm old!

I think I saw the episode in syndication, not when it was originally shown.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Perfect.

 

[Casey Pelous]

A real-life radio promotion event inspired the turkey episode. I think this fellow should be remembered forever:

In the early 1960s, Jerry Blum, the general manager of KBOX-AM in Dallas, Texas, threw frozen turkeys out of the back of a pickup truck in a shopping center parking lot as part of a Thanksgiving promotion. The public fought over the turkeys, and Blum said, "I didn't know turkeys couldn't fly".

Supposedly, the GM of WKRP was partly based on Blum, but my experience suggests that's a little like trying to identify which idiotic band inspired Spinal Tap. When I saw the movie, I immediately assumed they were sending up Deep Purple, having seen them "in the wild" backstage, but others seem to have equally valid claims. There appears to be no shortage of idiocy in the rock 'n' roll ranks, nor is there any shortage of sublime cluelessness in the management of our media.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Wild Turkeys can actually fly, they tend to do so for short distances and to get up to trees. Young domestics can also fly. Turkeys are also FREAKY dinosaurs and I don't like the way they look at you...like chickens and geese.

 

[Free]

Wild Turkeys can actually fly, they tend to do so for short distances and to get up to trees.

Tossing them from a helicopter should still be a no-no.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Tossing them from a helicopter should still be a no-no.

Damn right!

 

[Free]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

So wrong... so very very wrong...

 

[Free]

So wrong... so very very wrong...

Got enough cement there, AI?

 

[Essence Lumin]

Wild Turkeys can actually fly, they tend to do so for short distances and to get up to trees. Young domestics can also fly. Turkeys are also FREAKY dinosaurs and I don't like the way they look at you...like chickens and geese.

The quote says the turkeys were frozen though which would be quite a feat.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

(sound on)

 

[Isabeau]

A real-life radio promotion event inspired the turkey episode. I think this fellow should be remembered forever:



Supposedly, the GM of WKRP was partly based on Blum, but my experience suggests that's a little like trying to identify which idiotic band inspired Spinal Tap. When I saw the movie, I immediately assumed they were sending up Deep Purple, having seen them "in the wild" backstage, but others seem to have equally valid claims. There appears to be no shortage of idiocy in the rock 'n' roll ranks, nor is there any shortage of sublime cluelessness in the management of our media.

'It's a bird! It's a plane!' In Alaska, it's both, with a pilot tossing turkeys to rural homes

In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner delivered.

apnews.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

This seems to fit here:


For context -- this is from Maria's comedy special which consisted of her performing for her parents in their living room.
The phrase, "Squeezy cheese on finger ... can of wine!" has gained immortality in my house.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

It certainly puts off concerns about parenting.

 

[Caete]