Comments on: Eli Tells Jokes

By: Paul O'Brian

Paul O'Brian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:16:27 +0000

Man, it really is all in the delivery.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:20:14 +0000

I can see “that’s not funny any more, kid” on our horizon….

By: Camron

Camron — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:08:18 +0000

That was so very sweet. I may try to steal one of them for a ring tone.
We’re in the ‘only funny once, sweetheart’ phase in our household. Trying to make our seven and eight-year-old understand why the joke that made us laugh yesterday just doesn’t work today is a lesson in literacy. Parenting is truly an education.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:54:43 +0000

Good thing I don’t have kids… I’d laugh at all their jokes just ’cause they’re so dang cute and wind up inflicting adult terrible joke tellers on the rest of the world!

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:08:01 +0000

I’m with Stephen on how I handle Eli’s jokes. I mean, if the kid really does want to be a comedian someday, I don’t want his routines to be like some of Cliff Clavin’s stuff from Cheers. “What’s up with that?”

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:00:10 +0000

I generally only laugh when something about it actually strikes me as funny, like the delivery or Eli’s delight in the joke. Otherwise I tend to nod.

By: katre

katre — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:56:44 +0000

So, toddler etiquette question: do you fake laugh even if you don’t find the joke funny, or what? Z has only a basic sense of humor so far (I think we reached the “Ha ha, I dropped food on the floor!” stage a long time ago and stayed there), but I’m not sure how I’ll handle the “stupid joke” phase.

By: Limax

Limax — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:21:43 +0000

Hee hee… absolutely loved that!