July 23, 2011   190 notes

Set Your Motherfucker to "Receive".: NASA'S SUCCESSFUL QUANTIFYING OF COMEDY TIMING (By Penn Jillette and Teller)

symftr:

Excerpt from “How To Play In Traffic”, Penn Jillette and Teller, 1997 (out of print). This is long, but for my money, it’s the best thing about the space shuttle ever written.

Buddy Hackett said, “Ask me what’s the secret of comedy.”

Johnny Carson started to say, “What’s the secret of. …..

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    I’ll always feel blessed to have experienced a shuttle launch in person, and that, even when I didn’t go over to...
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    definitely worth a read