https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahclazarus/status/1458624042714341378
She works for the pod Johns, which I guess isn't shocking.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahclazarus/status/1458624042714341378
She works for the pod Johns, which I guess isn't shocking.
In my experience, "things where I strongly believed one thing to be true when it was very much not, leading to hijinks" is the winning delivery. Mixing that in with a callback at the end where you make the same mistake can also justify it. Being the butt of the joke is fine if it is really you who is the butt of the joke. It becomes a problem when you become a proxy for other people.
I just encountered this tiktok where I think she sells the idea she’s the cause of her problems by escalating again and again beyond what seems reasonable, which is hard to do with such limited characters. If you cant turn the ratchet beyond what people think is safe then people take it at face value
Yeah, I can see where she's going with it, but I agree that she's not really reaching the threshold of the unexpected, which makes it more uncomfortable than it is funny. I think there's probably a way in which a similar bit can be done in a similar amount of time and be funny, but it is harder, both because the 'hijinks' seem less like an incoherent logical error than just being another angry shopper and because the area the bit is working in is intrinsically uncomfortable and 'too real'.
If I were going to try and do the same bit, I'd probably go with.
"So, uh, I found out something pretty awful today. Not like, 'oh no, the sun will consume the earth in a million years' awful, though. More like 'you only exist because your parents boned' awful. Uh, yeah, sorry for reminding you.
So I was at Starbucks and I was getting a 'holiday beverage', which I would generally assume is just egg nog with extra rum not a latte, but I'm already over that betrayal. And I, uh, asked the barista to replace the whole milk with half-n-half. But she just looked at me funny. Honestly, I just assumed it was the drunken slur, but I guess not, because she said, 'What?'
And I said 'Could I replace the milk in the drink with half-n-half?'
She looked at me funny again and said, 'But... why?'
At this point, I was certain that she was not confused by the smell of, uh, holiday beverage on my breath and my uneven speech, so I just said. 'Well, you know, I'm lactose intolerant.'
'Okay, but half-n-half still has dairy in it.'
And, you know, I'm not stupid, so I said, 'Yeah, but only half!'
Anyway, turns out I got that wrong. The other half is apparently cream, not water, which does explain why I keep getting the shits... I just assumed it was the egg nog, to be honest.
At that point, I knew there was no way I was going to make it out of the conversation looking normal, so my nog-addled noggin decided to apply itself to the nearest bag of coffee beans and rip it open with my teeth. I'm, uh, I'm a biter when I get anxious, see. Yeah, it makes dating hard, too...
So then I kinda booked it, because I was pretty sure they were gonna call the cops, and as I ran away the barista chased me and slipped on the coffee beans on the ground...
So, what're you locked up for?"
I'd need to trim it a little, but the framework moves from 'this is just uncomfortable' to 'this is a wreck of a human being doing things that don't make any sense, and that's kinda funny.' It also breaks the beats up a little with interjections that keep the audience primed to laugh.
lol