Your classmates are tasteless losers take your crown king
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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This could have worked really well if done properly.
Including a broken video link, briefly asking for help from the teacher before turning back and saying "Actually, let's make this a learning experience".
Slide 1: Linking Broken Videos.
"It's important when you use videos to make sure the video file exists on your thumb drive! If you're using YouTube links, then just double check the video still exists before your presentation and make sure to have backups. If you're linking to a file host it's always worth making sure you don't meet the free quota and have it blocked as a really unfortunate time".
Gesture strongly and drop remote.
"Whoops! Let me get that".
Slide 2: Dropping the Remote.
"So make sure you don't gesture too wildly when you're presenting. It can look pretty odd if you're flailing around"
Slide 3: Inflatable arm flailing tube man video (properly linked).
"Talking with your hands is good for emphasis, but make sure to be reasonable and use your non-dominant hand so you don't throw things at Suzie. Sorry Suzie"
Smile at person near where the remote fell.
If your presentation is about pitfalls to avoid in presentations then it could go down really well and could be seen as clever and funny. You have to have confidence to pull it off. Make mistakes, but be sure of yourself and make them a part of the presentation.
Sounds like OP was just trying to be funny and not clever, which can come across as awkward if the confidence is lacking. You might get a laugh during your presentation, you might not. Doesn't matter because every mistake made by anyone else will get a smile now. It simultaneously takes the weight off others for making mistakes and legitimises your presentation by making it appear relevant.
I say all of this as someone who had zero confidence in school and would absolutely not have been able to pull this off. Confidence is just a fake it til you make it thing. You will be awkward at first, but learn to laugh at yourself and it gets a lot easier.
Sounds like you have a high charisma stat
skill issue. being funny is 1% the bit and 99% how you deliver it.
as someone who went to clown school here's the biggest tip i can give you to sell a visual joke.
Look at the joke. Look at the audience. Look back at the joke. Slowly look back at the audience.
intrusive thoughts have won
This is fucking hilarious lmao
the bit is funny, anon isn't funny, but anon fucking up is really fucking funny
If you have a reputation of being a joker and deliver your lines with a twinkle in your eye, this will kill. If you appear to be an average 4Chan user, haven’t said a word all semester, and run with deadpan delivery, this will look deranged.
It's a funny concept for sure. OPs execution was probably shit though.
Most amount of trouble? Jail.
Least amount of trouble? Also jail.
this is one of those things that seem funny but would be incredibly awkward irl
Which is what makes it funny for us.
If the execution was merely failing tasks and then revealing that the failure was planned, then I can understand why the teacher was pissed. The goal was obviously to get people talking, so if they didn't actually talk about the material on their slides then they didn't fulfill the project.
Eg: if slide 1 was revealed to be "Display a broken video" then OP should have then started talking about the importance of a broken video in a 5m presentation. Answer the question "Why is displaying a broken video important?". Talk how no presentation is complete without a technical glitch, talk about how people can test their videos before presenting, etc.
I'm not saying that the idea wasn't funny, but the goal was to present 5 minutes worth of material, not to shuffle awkwardly for 5 minutes and then reveal a joke.
Honestly, it might have been saved if he’d ended with jazz hands and loudly exclaimed:
THE ARISTOCRATS!
I don't get what the joke is. Can someone explain?
Basically, the guy did a prank as a presentation. Pranks are only funny when you're not the one being pranked on. Since the audience was being pranked on, they hated it.
Getting meta and doing a bad presentation about doing a bad presentation. I think it's funny in concept, but the problem with doing infuriating things on purpose is that they are still infuriating regardless of why you do them.
I think the key to this type of humor is really in the delivery. You have to be absolutely convinced that it’s funny as shit or it won’t work. If you half-ass it, it’ll just be cringe.
That's most comedy. You gotta commit to the bit or it'll flop
Also for those who have done comedy, you'll know that this might not necessarily be OPs fault. His execution may have been fantastic, it just was the wrong crowd on the wrong day. Given another audience or another day, the context could change just enough to make it work. There are so many reasons people flop.
So if you are a comedian struggling with your set please remember; it's not your fault. You are funny.
Also quit now before you drop any more money on an improv class. Find a more profitable hobby like shooting heroin.
I would have found this hilarious.
it probably was if anon wasn't a terrible comedian
Don't try to be funny. Try to have fun.
Dunno, maybe 20-something me would find that funnier, as a jaded 30-something I'd just roll my eyes at that, either as the professor or a student. The setup of those slides is weak
Sounds to me like bad presentation
The "teacher" called the "counselor"? I know these are never real but anon clearly thinks college is just like high school.
Colleges definitely have counseling staff and I don't think it's far-fetched that you could be referred to one.
I mean, this post is definitely fake but that's not why.
I hear ya but I don't know, when I was in college it was always "the professor", never "the teacher", and I think it's far-fetched that a prof reached out to the counseling staff over some dumb kid in a 101 class goofing off.
Since not everyone who teaches in a university is a professor, instructor (formal) and teacher (informal) feel more common where I live
The whole plan is backwards. Anon got the punchline before the setup.
Putting the punchline first can be funnier, but it require even better timing and a complete hold on the audience's attention.
Also it's too on the nose.
This is comedy gold. I would have laughed. The teacher having no sense of humor I get, but the other students? WTF is wrong with them? Maybe the culture is too different now - at 45 now, I can confidently say that back in my day this would have gotten some solid laughter.
My guess is that this person's class is at 7 AM and everyone is too hungover to appreciate humor.
My guess is that this never actually happened.
I can't imagine anyone actually going through the trouble of doing this as a project, and I especially can't imagine a college professor requiring a student to meet with a counselor for failing a project.
Including the professor. Hell, by my sophomore year I wouldn't have been paying attention to another presentation regardless of the time of day. Either it mattered and I was worried about my own, or it didn't and I was on reddit.
This kind of awkward humor walks a really fine line between funny and just plain old awkward. Stand up comedy is a real deal skill, you couldn't just go up at an open mic and kill, you probably aren't doing it in a classroom of your peers barely paying attention.
Yeah it sounds to me like anon was shooting for Joe Pera or Andy Kaufman but landed on Sweet Dee
Script is solid. Failed the delivery.
Real comedians practice their skit until it's not even funny for them anymore. Many never laugh at their own jokes when they're killing it.
It sounds like he did to the point people actually believed he was accidentally fucking it up to the point they couldn’t see past it to the joke. Either that or it’s 4chan so it’s fake
Yeah and I don’t suspect most people on 4chan have any stage work abilities. I’m talented at stage work, and by that I mean in my public speaking class in high school I fell flat on my face for most of a semester but was charming about it by the end and in college was able to relatively quickly pick up the skill and hold onto it for a long time. Without comedic timing it’s going to start bad, and if you can’t call it and say “I’m sorry it’s all gonna be more of this, it was funnier in my head” you just become the embodiment of cringe.
I hope anon does some open mics. They’re good not just for building skills but also for the soul. Sometimes the soul needs to bomb in a safe space.
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