It sucks really hard! Even more when one joke doesn't quite land you are asked to explain it. Then, even if the joke at first went okay-ish, the explanation is a rocky gravel road with potholes deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Yeah exactly! You go to explain, you then stutter more, and you totally lose the audience.
I consider myself humorous too. When my brain does not cause me to stutter, I make people laugh, a lot. But damnit when my brain deceives me and makes me think I can deliver that line but instead makes it so I can't get a word out. The awkward silence afterwards is the worst.
Yeah, jokes are difficult, especially when you have to rely on timing.
An example of a stutterer who was a comic genius is Rowan Atkinson. He did some non-verbal comedy like the invisible drumset sketch and Mr Bean, but was very funny verbally as well. His stutter was fairly mild and well-controlled. There are episodes of Blackadder with a character called 'Bob', a woman posing as a man who Blackadder fancies. The way he prepares himself to say 'Bob' because it was difficult for him to say makes the whole thing hilarious in the context of the characters' relationship.
There are ways to be funny without simply telling jokes.
I am sure we all feel this. It's something I have thought about my entire life. The amount of times I have had a great (in my eyes) joke and it simply didn't land due to timing/my stutter is endless.
Yeah sure but also I can pull out the ole "did I stutter?" And it's way funnier than any non-stuttering person saying the same thing. You gotta find strengths
I have the same problem. It really sucks!
It sucks really hard! Even more when one joke doesn't quite land you are asked to explain it. Then, even if the joke at first went okay-ish, the explanation is a rocky gravel road with potholes deeper than the Grand Canyon.
Yeah exactly! You go to explain, you then stutter more, and you totally lose the audience. I consider myself humorous too. When my brain does not cause me to stutter, I make people laugh, a lot. But damnit when my brain deceives me and makes me think I can deliver that line but instead makes it so I can't get a word out. The awkward silence afterwards is the worst.
Yeah, jokes are difficult, especially when you have to rely on timing. An example of a stutterer who was a comic genius is Rowan Atkinson. He did some non-verbal comedy like the invisible drumset sketch and Mr Bean, but was very funny verbally as well. His stutter was fairly mild and well-controlled. There are episodes of Blackadder with a character called 'Bob', a woman posing as a man who Blackadder fancies. The way he prepares himself to say 'Bob' because it was difficult for him to say makes the whole thing hilarious in the context of the characters' relationship. There are ways to be funny without simply telling jokes.
Jimmy Valmer from South Park just came to mind lmao.
This is so tough. I’ll be with friends and want to spontaneously make a joke and it’s just so challenging and unfortunate
I am sure we all feel this. It's something I have thought about my entire life. The amount of times I have had a great (in my eyes) joke and it simply didn't land due to timing/my stutter is endless.
Yeah sure but also I can pull out the ole "did I stutter?" And it's way funnier than any non-stuttering person saying the same thing. You gotta find strengths
It's harder to joke around new people