high school essay analogies

Some of those would actually be good in the right place.  But boy, you have to know your humor.

A comic is not someone who says funny things.  A comic is someone who says things funny.

I wish I'd know that quote years ago, when management decreed an out-of-time meeting, with the acclaimed Second-City Players as entertainment on the last evening.

They started by telling the same joke (via skit) three times.  It wasn't funny the first time.  It was less funny the second.  And after the third time, I decided that dessert had tasted very good going in, and there was no point spoiling it by tasting it again.  I got up and walked out.

Someone should have told the SCP that their audience would be (a) tired and (b) sober.