702: Office Humor

[jwdd27]

Chemda seemed to interrupt a hell of a lot on this show.

It gets a bit annoying when everything a guest says gets turned into a story about her. All we really found out about John Knefel was that he's got a job in an office. But Chemda used to have an office job, so then we hear all about that again.

How long has he been doing comedy? How did he get into it? Any good road stories? What does he think of the comedians he knows who have been on the show? Who are his comedy heroes?

I'm not saying every guest has to be interviewed properly, but we hear from Keith and The Girl every show, the guests should be allowed to speak a bit more.
Most of the feedback that gets read out is dumb as well.

Remember last week, when I liked the show?

[SanFranStagehand]

Originally Posted by jwdd27

Chemda seemed to interrupt a hell of a lot on this show.

It gets a bit annoying when everything a guest says gets turned into a story about her. All we really found out about John Knefel was that he's got a job in an office. But Chemda used to have an office job, so then we hear all about that again.

How long has he been doing comedy? How did he get into it? Any good road stories? What does he think of the comedians he knows who have been on the show? Who are his comedy heroes?

I'm not saying every guest has to be interviewed properly, but we hear from Keith and The Girl every show, the guests should be allowed to speak a bit more.
Most of the feedback that gets read out is dumb as well.

Remember last week, when I liked the show?

I was just thinking how cool it was to hear Keith read my letter, but then I read this and realized I suck.

Who are his comedy heroes??? Who gives a fuck? If I wanted to hear every lame ass stock question, I'd listen to lame ass radio shows. Of course we hear Keith and Chemda every show, I thought that's why we listen. I didn't even notice if Chemda was talking too much. I thought John Knefel was funny, and I remember his name. I think that's the point of going on a show, so I'd say job well done.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by jwdd27

How long has he been doing comedy? How did he get into it? Any good road stories? What does he think of the comedians he knows who have been on the show? Who are his comedy heroes?

If only we had a way for you to interact with the show...

[Dominic]

Regarding office pranks:
I'm with Keith on this; they're generally dumb and devoid of any real humour.
However, every now and then, somebody comes up with a good idea.....

I work in an office that has a lost & found from items left behind by customers. One time, a customer...gods help me I hope it was a hairdresser...left behind a couple of barber's dummies (basically, mannequin heads with hair). Since no one claimed them, some of the office people thought it would be fun to play a prank on the building cleaner.
Our section has a private bathroom that gets cleaned once a day; its location allowed for it to be closed off for the afternoon. With a little jerry-rigging, most of the water was drained from the toilet. Later, the cleaner came in to do her job and when she lifted the toilet seat to clean, she was greeted with the following....

PRANK.jpg

I think the poor woman was scared out of ten years of life. Probably not too funny for her (although she had a good sense of humour about it), but whatever lightens the mood around here for a bit is OK by me.
By the way...the heads were found in various odd places for weeks after, and as far as I know are still floating around here someplace.

[SanFranStagehand]

Originally Posted by Dominic

By the way...the heads were found in various odd places for weeks after, and as far as I know are still floating around here someplace.

Be careful, I think one of those heads may have been inside a toilet.... Whose idea was it to NOT throw away the head after it came out of a TOILET???

[Uncast]

Originally Posted by phooey

A while back a boss of mine called me from home, he was taking the day off, I think April 1st was on a friday.. he called me in the morning to ask me to get copies of my last 3 expense reports because someone in finance wanted to take a look at them. At first I thought, no biggie.. then he called back and said.. make 3 copies of them and ask another one of guys that I worked with to do the same. He said.. there would be a meeting after lunch in teh boardroom with the Vp of Finance and the Vp of Operations.. I freaked.. went to another boss, my boss's boss who said.. "look, I don't know what is up, but don't be late"

I thought , this must be an april fools joke.. then my boss called me again and said.. "what are you wearing?" and I told him.. "it's casual friday man" and he said that he would be wearing a suit.. and he hates suits.

after lunch, I went to the boardroom with the other guy.. had my expense reports... I couldn't find anything wrong.. the VP of ops came in and would not make eye contact with me... she just took her copies.. then the VP of finance came in and we waited for my boss.. who did show up in a suit!

I thought, my job was gone.. when.. the VP of finance said.. "April Fools!"

i felt honored in a way that they would go all out to fuck with me...

you know? it was really elaborate.. my boss was dying.. "you should have seen your face!!!"

yeah.. anyway, we are stil friends.. crazy sob

My boss did that to us in a way...as far as getting everyone involved.

We had a really tight knit group in our department. We did marketing for a firm in Carlsbad. We normally hold two weeks of events in various regions in the country every month. These events take months to plan and so we start putting together lists of people to market to 5-6 months prior to the events.

My co-worker and I (who are in charge of these lists) were sent an email from our manager that one event went so well, that we were going to do a two week run in that area immediately starting in a month. We had 2 days to get the lists fully put together (they usually take 4-5 weeks) and get them out to sales.

At first we thought, "This is an April Fools joke". Then we looked at the email again and it was cc'd with our director, VP, the CEO our national spokesman, the VP of sales, etc. A long list of ideas, "OMG what are we going to do?" and all that shit. It looked pretty damn real, like everyone else thought it was a good idea but they were freaking like we were.

Our director comes in and immediately starts asking questions about where we are in the process. Our VP and CEO come in and they too come over and ask what we need to make this happen. "Uh, about 10 more people" we say. There is talk about filling the break room with computers and hiring a team of temps to come in to help for a few days.

Then...just about 4pm, they hold a meeting with us. We go over how little we've gotten done and they kind mutter and shake their heads in disappointment. "Well then I guess if you guys aren't committed, then we're not going. Thanks for nothing guys."

and our manager, the last to walk out as we're both sitting there stunned turns around as she gets to the door and whispers "and April Fool's"

[jwdd27]

Originally Posted by Keith

If only we had a way for you to interact with the show...

Yeah, those questions were awesome weren't they?
If I lived in New York I could be Executive Producer or something, but time zones mean I don't get to give you notes that often.

And somehow you still manage to put out five shows a week without my input.