Comedy Contest 17 (Blog 122)

My latest Unsubscribe Tribe, Facebook comedy contest is rather unusual this time round, as technically there are two winners with identical scores. That’s a fact that is causing me a lot of contemplation, as I’m not sure if I would be breaking time-honoured, golden competition rules If I were to give a double handed, shared thumbs up… … … But that doesn’t matter because I’ve just chose between them. But how? Fortunately, that was a question easily solved. One of the high scorers is a well thought out comedy sketch, and the other doesn’t even make sense. But come on… Amish people firing machine guns and doing drugs? How is that not funny? Hence the high score. ‘But surely you could have detracted points if the video was borderline gibberish?’ Weirdly, no. That was never a criteria in my rating system. A flawed system, then? Well, out of well over a hundred videos scored by me, I’ve never before had issues with it. :S

Anyway, more about the true winner, TwizzFizz… She is a long time participant of my event and has received much impressive feedback from me. However, this is the first time she’s won. Her video is about a woman who loves being inside a kitchen, and her boyfriend desperately tries to stop that way of thinking, as he considers it sexist. It has kind of a classic reversal thing going on, in that it’s usually men persuading women to go and make food, but I’ve never seen this kind of sketch in this setting before. And once again, I actually understood it. Very important. (Or is it?)

Throughout her skit, she prepares her basic meal of bread, butter and cheese, more and more, to the horror of her man chum. But will he end up eating it? In an act of real abuse, not just imagined, she forces him to gulp it down, only for him to say how amazing it is. It’s just a cheese sandwich, what kind of deprived background does he come from? What would a Michelin starred curry do to him? He’d probably faint with excitement. I kind of want to buy him one just to see the look on his face, but then again, what if he has to go back to simple snacks for the rest of his life? Torture, right? So don’t get on the wrong side of me. Or I’ll feed you curry.

Now back to my life! Just to keep with these blog’s traditions, that is. You may or may not remember I wrote about my hobby of ‘extreme sleeping’, a while ago. In other words, sleeping with the windows open in freezing temperatures. I’ve been doing that the last few days, and suffered no negative health effects because of that. Well, until now. (‘Now’ at the time of writing, anyway - I get these contest blogs done pretty early. That’s important to point out, as at the time of finally editing/posting, it’s actually quite warm). Anyway, I did wake up with a bit of a sore throat (a while ago to be clear) and later passed it onto my dad for a short time. I was thinking to myself, basically I’m a mini biological weapon. I could work for the ministry of defence. Imagine what I could do in a wartime situation. I could pretend to be fighting on the other side and simply sneeze a few times. Job done - incapacitated. And on that note! BYeeeyeyeyeyBBBBbbbYYYyEeeeeee!

Oh where are my manners? Here are the winning videos… Let’s start with the crazy one… (Strangely recommended).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqzXVPJYjmU

And let’s finish on something a little more standard…

https://www.facebook.com/TheTwizzFizz/videos/2352158958341165/

Bye!