Ellen Horne
Ellen, promptly after reading the "How to Make Radio" comic book, set out to learn how to do just that. She’s still learning, although in the course of the last decade she has worked as a spot news producer, a features reporter, a talk-show booker, a montage maker, an announcer, a podcast consultant, and a news editor. She joined Radiolab in 2003 as a volunteer, and is now the Executive Producer. Lately, she’s been obsessed with transposing Radiolab into more visual places – like theaters and apps. She’s overwhelmed with gratitude for the amazing team she gets to play with every day at Radiolab.
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Brandon,
That is a great point!
anti-m (is that suppose to mean anti-me?),
That is another great point!
Hmmm... Watching this video, I wonder how much of the funniness of this joke is about the delivery.
The less-funny versions seem to suffer from less-than-confident delivery. Perhaps boss-dom conveys the confidence required to sell this joke.
This joke also got funnier with repeat tellings for me -- the absurdity of hearing this awful joke over and over in the cube-farm environment made it "meta-funny" if that makes sense.
I agree with 'Great White' but also, it could have been one of those jokes that is just funnier when you think about how stupid it is, laugh, then tell someone else. Such as the old "wanna hear a dirty joke? a horse fell in the mud".
That joke is stupid but when told in the right situation such as being drunk or someone already warmed up and laughing it can be hysterical.
Besides it's all fun and games at work until you get told "yes, well, I think you have just been chosen for a random drug screening."
Sorry to all that read post #2/my above post for it being hard to read.
I think the boss that reacted, beyond just silence or a fake laugh, are just bosses I hope I never again work under. I used work under bad bosses (just BLANKS) that would sarcastic in employees reaching situations like that, let alone almost all communications. However, I have worked under a bosses that would laugh at employees bad jokes. However, there was one of those bosses, that laughted at all employees' jokes, was a push over for all employees and customers and thus made a terrible work place also.
Thus, I say we should be able to be real, with each other. A good employee would be a lot friender and a good boss would be a lot trusting of the employees if we all just real with each other. That being as a owner of my businesses, I have started from the ground up, I can see how hard it is.
I think it's an appropriately evolved defense mechanism: a release of endorphins as an anodyne to counteract all the feelings of "I should be YOUR boss!!"
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