On Stating the Obvious

Time changes everything about a society.

Today, I examine an element of modern humor.

This would have, in no way, been funny 10 years ago. I know; I was there. And yet, here we are, and Stating The OBVIOUS is comedic gold.

Genius even. Some might say that it is the bee's knees (they would subsequently be ignored as witty rhymes are no longer funny. I wish sometimes that they never had been; let's move on though - the past, as painful as it is, must be left in its place).

As with all humor, STO takes a certain element of presentation. It requires a delivery of complete commitment, and an absolutely oblivious lack of awareness when it comes to somethings obvious-ness.

For example: imagine a sports reporter at a half time analysis. "I do believe, that as the games going right now... the team with the most points will triumph."

(The reporter is not a golf reporter - shame on you for even asking.)

STO must be used sparingly and not by immature humorists. It takes a sophisticated mind to read the audience and to place it at exactly the right moment. Otherwise, it comes out as the three stooges minus the slapstick. That's like... negative funny man! NEGATIVE.

I think the fact that this is funny hails a return to simple humor. Remember when you could just say psyche at the end of a sentence and it would be an absolute killer? I miss those days.

This is a sentence.