Don’t laugh
Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Thursday, July 24, 2008
I gather this YouTube is quite well known. I’d never seen it when I came across it.
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It is really tough when you have to laugh and you can’t.
About 30 years ago my mum and I were attending a concert by the singer Dietrich Fisher-Diskau. Unfortunately he was not singing Schubert but some very modern avant garde music. The announcer breathlessly told us that we were fortunate – that the singer was to be accompanied by the composer himself on piano. The composer looked like a homeless person, but was also very twitchy, like he was on speed. Dietrich was drenching the hall in his honey baritone, totally unrelated to the atonal nonsense that the ‘accompanist” was playing. Mum and I started getting the giggles. The more people glared at us for disrespecting the great man, the funnier it became.
The final straw was that the decrepit old accompanist stood up during the “song” and started knocking the wood en panels inside the piano with his knuckles, with a pained look of concentration on his face – while Dietrich still sang an unrelated melody. We had to leave the auditorium in disgrace, holding our guts and each other as was sprinted down the aisle.
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 6:38 am | PermalinkI can’t remember the joke?
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 2:19 pm | PermalinkThe longer (proper) version is here.
The explanation is here.
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 7:01 pm | Permalink“I’d never seen it when I came across it”
Is it just me, or sounds this sound vaguely tautologous?
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 8:44 pm | PermalinkNo, it should be “sounds this sounds vaguely tautomological“
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 9:38 pm | PermalinkI couldn’t keep a straight face when a student called Grocock introduced himself to the class. And, on another occasion, one called Hardik (quite a common Indian first name, I think). I consoled myself that they must be used to it, but it was pretty embarrassing all the same.
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 10:39 pm | PermalinkA kid at my high school was called Richard Head - poor sod. He was a nice guy and I think he’d found this particular name character building in the way that the protagonist in ‘A Boy Named Sue’ did.
Posted on 25-Jul-08 at 10:50 pm | PermalinkThis one is lovely too - and authentic, as far as I know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwANJEwkWB0&eurl=http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/page/2/
Posted on 26-Jul-08 at 9:09 am | Permalink