Realistic endings to jokes
A friend of mine recently mentioned that traditional jokes should be "modernized" by giving them realistic endings, the kind that we would actually expect to hear in the real world.
His example:
A man calls a lawyer and asks him, "how much do you charge?" to which the lawyer responds, "five thousand dollars for three questions." So the man asks, "really? That much?" And the lawyer replies [new realistic ending], "yes, now would you like to ask me those three questions?"
My example:
- What’s worse than finding a worm in an apple?
- [new realistic ending] The death of a close friend.
E-mail me with your suggestions, or, if you’re a history buff and you’d like to know the traditional, outdated punchlines to these jokes.
