Kung Pow Chicken

I just put this post up on Twitter. I know it’s pretty far out there, you have to REALLY know Star Wars to get this joke, and even if you do, it’s only mildly funny. It’s one of the rare tweets that I put up with out thinking about it too much. 

I guess I could have worked more Star Wars perspective in like talking about Jedi’s, Jabba, or other, more recognizable features from the movie. But I didn’t. 

I thought about why I didn’t for a bit. As the Tweet stands, No @replies and 2 stars which tells me that it didn’t really inspire anyone to give me feedback on it. I understand that the Favstar crown likes a particular type of humor and it’s not the end all be all of the joking world on Twitter so this reaction, although slightly disappointing, isn’t anywhere near the ned of the world. 

What I cam up with is this: Sometimes I will put a joke up that only a few people will really get, and I’m ok with that. I might even say I like it. In a world where most humor is boiled down to it’s simplest format for the broadest mass appeal I find jokes that are tailored and stream lined right at me to be very personal, intimate and funny. Also, I feel is brings me closer to the person behind the material- They wrote it FOR me. 

Maybe this joke in particular just wasn’t funny, I’m willing to accept that. It got me thinking about my connection with my readers and, hopefully, how they feel on the receiving end of my humor. With any luck, the few people who got this and thought it was funny feel just a bit closer to me than they did before. I know I feel closer to them, even though I don’t know them.