Well, I was thinking what is humor good for? Humor, the present form of humor present in the entertainment business is stand-up comedy which seems to be the most popular. Stand-up comedians, well, they are like social commentators who basically make fun of the various oddities of the audience and we the audience basically pay them to make fun of us.(Thats the most cynical view I could think of!!!) Most stand-up comedians are geeks in one way or another, they do not belong to cool people category. Its different and rare for a cool(I mean this definition is subjective but just for the argument sake, right now that there are cool people in the world but there aren't any really) person to have a sense of humor but it basically borders on degrading pranks. If you come to think of it, everything basically boils down to your high school where everyone starts to form their personalities. Comedians were the bunch who were always made fun of but some pranksters make it to the comedian category too but very few.
Well, if you come to think of it the most popular program on the world is Simpsons or South park (depending on how many brain cells you want to utilize!!). That means this generation of people have never really grown out of watching cartoons and playing computer games. There is a paradox, even though everyone is growing up faster(by this I mean a kid at an age of 18 would be more mature and knowledgeable than the same kid 50yrs ago), our mental levels still lies at the same level of pre-teens until the age of 40s when you hit mid-life crisis and you can't find joy in the same activities(Some still do!!!! Some 40 somethings play CS online). So my point is there is a growth of market value of nerds or dorks category in the world. So a sort of Revenge of the Nerds movie.
But since we are discussing about nerds being comedians, so when did nerds become funny. The thing is nerds have to be funny or as we can say have to be funny if they ever wanna get laid. And to give some credit to nerds they did vary their style of comedy from technology and all things nerd to anything not nerd and occasionally about themselves. This is a strategy built into nerds to help them get laid that is to be funny with ladies. See the thing is nerd won't get laid in one night (except if he has "MADE IT"!!) it will take a lot of work to move from acquaintances to friends TO "Last night was a big mistake, we should go back to just being friends" (i.e. last night was no good for the friend). But in the past few years how many times have you seen a geek with a hot girl(Personally, I don't even keep a count anymore).
See, here is the explanation, girls today due to their feminist drive and everything, they need personal vanity projects for bragging rights with their friends. Geek just has to show that glimmer of light to the ladies that they want to be improved but they haven't found anyone like her who can convert our lovable funny geek into THE STUD. Well, in the end, the geek's charm lies in his helplessness and his subtly funny humor, which seems charming to women. But hey who's complaining.
You see, geeks can't pick up in clubs and even in bars they work better with social threads. And in this age of optimization the geek has optimized himself to reach a new high in mating. See, its not that value of studs/cools/jocks has gone down but they are just one night cheat stands for a great night out. ("Oh honey, I can't make it tonight I am babysitting my friend Joshina's little brother tonight" WICKED!!!) . But the geeks have increased their market value and have learnt some marketing techniques(take bill gates for an example).
HOPE IT GIVES SOME HOPE TO A GEEK TO GET OUT THERE. NAMELY .............................
Saturday, June 11, 2005
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