If you get me and my two brothers (let's call them Jay, and Ess) in the same room, we're the funniest people (possibly in our own minds) you'll ever talk to. We set each other off on wild tangents really well. We're like a deranged comedy troupe. Singly, we're not that funny at all; well Jay (middle child) thinks he is: "Still the funniest!" Is something we beat him daily for saying. However, I realize that the entirety of our comedic repertoire consists of in-jokes. Which is both totally awesome and... slightly sad.
DRAWINGS
So, today I found a folder of drawings I did of my brothers over the years. 'Drawings' is too flattering a word-- 'caricatures' is more accurate. Basically the ugliest things my mind could conjure, I transferred to paper. I have hundreds of these, possibly-- you have to understand I've been making fun of my brothers in art from since I could even grasp a pen-- and Jay especially suffers the most at the hands of my malevolent drawing implement. The root of the joke, basically is that Ess claims that Jay has an afro. (He doesn't really, it's just a bit curly), to which he would indignantly reply that he didn't, and me, as the kind sister I was-- I would egg Ess on by taking his side. "I'll solve this by drawing a realistic depiction of Jay' ... I said, and my answer to that being a cartoon of a deformed little guy with a Dr J afro and an arrow; '<--- Jay' and so on and so forth-- each incarnation of Jay on paper getting uglier and uglier. The uglier the better. But the constant is always the massive afro. The afro is the in-joke; ongoing and perplexing to anyone actually viewing my drawings.
NERDS
We're also huge nerds. We have Sci-Fi nights once a week which is something that Ess started... mostly to escape married life. However, recently, Ess started giving us 'the secret handshake' when he leaves-- which he claims is awesome because it 'features the elbow move' which he demonstrated on us. Basically... well, I won't reveal too much or I'll be killed for family betrayl-- but it's basically, shake, grasp, knuckle tap, then.... elbow cross? If it sounds like the lamest thing you've ever heard, that's probably because it is. When I said this to Ess, his response was; 'But it's ours!' like that made it somehow less lame. So now, anything that's a little bit uncool or a little bit off can be justified just by saying, 'but it's ours!' and furthermore, the handhsake has an extra step at the end; a point-to-self-with-thumbs-up and a cry of 'It's ours!'
MOOGLE
Moogle is short for My Google, or possibly 'Great Googly Moogly'. Moogle is a joke I created because both my brother's have the bad habit of saying; "Oh, where's that guy from?" regarding actors, when we watch TV--- and then looking at me, because I have a good memory for that kind of thing. Not taking no for an answer, they asked me, 'you like the internet, can't you look it up?' and I pulled out a pen and pad and said 'sure, let me just consult Moogle!' which basically consisted of me drawing a fake internet search page with a fake entry usually making fun of one of them. It can't really be explained without showing you Moogle itself.
DUBBING
We used to take stupid 80s films and re-dub them with ad-libbed dialogue. This was before Who's Line made it cool, and was when I was something like fifteen, so some of my parts lack the comedic brilliance I now have today. We did the original Star Trek movies, Bloodsport, Karate Kid, some of the TOS episodes, Star Wars, Rocky, and so on and so forth. We quote these bits of ad-libbed dialogue to each other all the time. Ess had the bad habit of tuning out while dubbing; actually watching the movie and stopping in mid sentence. This caused the huge dubbing usurp of power in the family-- namely booting Ess from the dubbing team. This resulted in the part of Captain Kirk being recast. I went for it, but lost on account of my voice being too girly. Naturally, I was given the role of Spock instead. My voice being so deep and Leonard Nimoy-like. My basic angle as Spock, was to say the most absurd things with a straight face and a deeper voice.
Kirk (Jay): 'Dildo? What does he need with a dildo? Wait-- Spock-- I always get confused, is it DIL-do or DID-lo?"
Spock (Me): (Pause)' I believe it's Didlo, captain.'
I love in-jokes.
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