dogs in a box (a post full of jokes and thoughts about boxes)
jokes about boxes to celebrate my friend emily flake's new "joke in a box" card deck! joke in a box! it's a fun name! enjoy!
dear friends, family, fans, fellow folks, friends again, friends forever, etc.
i’m grateful that you’re here.
thank you for being you and here.
and now, today’s jokes and thoughts inspired by my friend emily flake, whose new card deck “joke in a box” comes out later this month, and if you click you can enter for a pre-order giveaway! emily’s cartoons are wonderful and often appear in the new yorker and i love her and recommend her work like this!
and now, to celebrate “joke in a box,” here are some jokes i’ve written about boxes!
A) is for Airplane:
why don't they make the whole comedy set out of the airplane black box jokes?
i don’t know how prevalent this trope is these days, but there used to be a lot of comedians who would tell jokes about airline travel AND ON TOP OF THAT there seemed to be a lot of comedians telling jokes about the specific premise that is the black box recording device that is said to exist on most planes, a box that is meant to survive even when the plane does not, so indestructible is this box. and so, many wise comedians before me (who are not aeronautical engineers, for the most part) have asked the question, “why don’t they make the whole plane out of the black box material?” and so here i am asking this question. and the answer is i don’t know, so keep an eye out for a new album/special from me coming soon: Myq Kaplan’s ABCs. (Airplane Blackbox Comedy.)
B) is for having a Ball:
i love those 3D labyrinth box games with the marbles inside
but i can't figure out how to share that love without saying…
i don’t know how prevalent the phrase “amazeballs” is these days, but according to urban dictionary, it refers to “Something so awesome that amazing is not enough.“ i’m a little disappointed that it didn’t spawn a whole new lexical family of similar words such as “astoundballs,” “astonishballs,” and “terrifballs,” but i’ll take what i can get.
C) is for glove Compartment:
A FAN OF MINE ONCE: "I bought 2 of your albums and threw them in the glove box of my car. My car was broken into and the thieves stole everything except for your 2 albums. I feel like there's a joke in there."
MY RESPONSE: "Thieves with a heart of gold, intuitively leaving the most treasured items!"
i don’t know how prevalent foolish thieves are these days, but i’m very grateful that my fan continues to possess my albums and those thieves only have everything else of value that was in the car, which won’t fulfill them on a soul level like whichever two of my albums those were. also, most of my albums are available on streaming platforms now, so try and steal THOSE from my fans now, thieves! (please don’t actually.)
and that’s all the box jokes for right now! now for some questions for YOU:
1) how are you doing? how is your heart? what is new and good?
2) do you have any funny thievery stories?
3) what is your relationship with the term “amazeballs”?
4) were you familiar with the airplane black box joke trope?
5) how are you doing NOW?
before we go, here’s one show i’ve got coming up:
the bradley playhouse in putnam, CT on 11/11
is it a black BOX theater? for our purposes here, let’s say MAYBE!
in conclusion, thank you so much for being here.
much love to you and yours and all.
and here are some dogs in a box!
