The time has come for my final story involving uncontrollable laughter. My brother, my friend Caleb, my other friend Madeline, and I were playing a board game called Fortune Seeker one night my senior year of high school. It was late at night (I want to say about two in the morning) and everything was already funnier than it would normally be during the day. I’m not sure why, but if something is funny, then it is ten times funnier when you’re extremely tired. Anyways, there is one mechanic of the board game called hostile takeover. This means that the player who gets this can take whatever they want from another player for a small price. This happened a lot to Madeline that night. Walter, Caleb, and I just kept taking all of her stuff. Needless to say, she was not that happy by the end of the game. When the game had finished (I believe Walter ended up winning that night), Madeline went on quite a long rant about how we stole all of her stuff and destroyed all hope she had of winning....
I don’t know if you have seen it or if you even care, but Saturday Night Live has recently been airing “at home” episodes. It has been an interesting couple of episodes. They do their sketches by either recording themselves alone or recording zoom calls/facetimes and using that to adapt to the new environment. The intriguing part of these episodes is the lack of audience. There is something strange about performing comedy to an audience that does not exist. The sketches do okay because they the sketch format is not that dependent on the audience, the comedic music videos do the best, but the Weekend Update portion of the show is where the show loses some of its comedic sensibilities. This is because Weekend Update is essentially stand-up comedy and thus thrives the best in the presence of a live audience. A live audience adds a lot of things to comedy...