Comedy Masterclass : Body Parts

Tuesday 18th May

So, yesterday I was listening to a comedian I enjoy and she was going on again about legs. Now she mentioned legs a lot in her comedy, leading me to believe that she values legs above any other body parts when it comes to her jokes.

Which got me to thinking, what is the funniest body part? Would it be the eyeball, the arm, the legs, or maybe an internal organ like the spleen or the pancreas or the gall bladder? Is it even the humourous bone in the arm? It sounds a bit obvious, but is it true?

So I came upon an idea, which I could then put to friends of mine. If you were to take every body part and separate them and put them onto a sliding scale where would each body part come in reference to its comedic value in relation to any other.

It was at this point that I realized I had taken a slightly creepy turn, and that I was chopping up corpses in an effort to find that humourous content. This, I considered, might be going a touch too far..

Where would it end? Is there much further you can go with this? Am I going to start suddenly considering genocide? Is nothing taboo in my brain anymore? Or have I already crossed the line?

I suppose that I'll know more when I start performing this in front a live audience. See how many people keep their lunch.