The Joke Workshop : Module 3 : Q and A (1)

No, this is a session on another of those quirky joke formats, the question and answer.  You know the sort of thing:

Q: Where do you find giant snails?
A: On the ends of giant's fingers.

These are the sort of jokes that get passed around the Net, or you might tell a mate, but that you're not likely to hear on an Open Mike night, or at the Comedy Store.  If a stand up asks the audience it's usually in a rhetorical fashion rather than waiting for two or three hundred different answers and killing the act stone dead.

However, we'll attempt to get some new mileage out of the Q and A today, because, after all, it tests our ability to create humour and that's what these workshops are about.

We'll start with one of the more popular Q and A's.  What's in a name?  As far as jokes go, an awful lot.  You know the sort of thing, "What do you call a man ..."  or "What do you call a woman ...".  We have to find a man's name, or woman's name, that can have more than one meaning, or sounds as if it has a different meaning.

I have to say the easiest way to do this is to find a list of names ( type "boy's names" or "girl's names" into Google ) and just say some of them out loud.  At some point you will start smiling because one or more names will throw up a funny image in your head.

Here are a couple for girls:

Q: What do you call a sheila gone walk-a-bout?
A:  Wanda

Q:  What do you call a girl in a microwave?
A:  Poppy

and a couple for boys:

Q: What do you call a boy who's hopeless at hide-and-seek?
A:  Aamir

Q:  What do you call a bloke holding a wheel on each arm?
A:  Axel

Of course, Q and A does not have to revolve around names, and in other Modules we'll return to the subject and look at other variations.  Until then, who's nicked my mug?  No, that's not a joke, where's my mug of tea?

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