While we were in Branson, we attended a dinner at the condo development that was designed to give us a sampling of the different shows we could attend that week. While we ate, different acts stopped by to do a number or two from their show and pass out fliers about show times and prices. Holding the show together and entertaining us in between acts was a singer/MC.
We were sitting front and center, and there were very few kids, so when the MC wanted to tell a joke, he asked, "Why did the turkey cross the road?" and pointed the microphone at IM. She blinked and said, "Because the chicken was on strike."
Not the answer he was expecting. The crowd laughed and he asked IM if she thought that up on the spot or had heard the joke already. She admitted it was the latter, and as he turned away, she said to me, "Anyone who's read Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever would know the answer to that!" The MC saw that she was talking, so he asked her to repeat what she'd just said. So she did.
The crowd roared. The MC gave her two CDs of his music. IM buried her head in my lap.
*sigh* And I wonder why I have a hard time teaching her when she's being funny and when she's being sassy.
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That's awesome.
(I was that child once. I memorized ten years worth of Reader's Digest's Laughter: The Best Medicine.)
The picture of IM blithely destroying this man's punchline is great.
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