some people are not funny

i mean, i'm no class clown... but i've been known to crack wisely. anyway last week i heard someone use "no pun intended" during a speech in which he used no pun. in fact i remember exchanging confused glances with other members of the audience at the misstep. in retrospect, as a socially awkward situation it was pretty funny. but back to topic: i can fathom someone not understanding the concept of, say, irony... but the pun? isn't that comedy 101?

it made me think; the universe is quite often a balance of opposites. just as there are comic geniuses with excellent delivery there must be others out there with perfect anti-timing. imagine someone with the ability to drop a punchline at the worst possible time... a hear-a-pin-drop singularity, if you will... a comic failure so colossal that time would physically stop and jesus christ would return saying, "jesus fucking christ that was awful!" that would be hilarious.

marc was last seen trying to ascertain whether finding hilarity in someone's systematic lack of humor constitutes irony.