So my idea was to ask a bunch of people if they could come up with new jokes. I’m not even sure how they would work, what the structure would be, or what they’d be about. (Probably something web-related.) But they’d have to be bona fide jokes, not McSweeneysesque lists or Daily Show routines. Obviously, now that I’m free and easy I’ve got nowhere to go with this one, but if you feel like you’re somehow able to rescue the dying medium of the joke, feel free to e-mail me your contribution or reblog it on your Tumblr or whatever. If it’s really, really good, I’ll tell you the classic about the black guy and the French guy on the subway, which, for various reasons mainly having to do with it being incredibly racist, you don’t hear all that often these days. I’ve also got a clean, non-racist one involving polar bears which I will share instead if you’re sensitive about that kind of thing. Okay, make me laugh! God knows I need it.
Balk, you really have to start volunteering. (I know, I know, it’s “the hard part”!) God knows these people need it. Sorry but there is no joke here.
