I really need to fine-tune my comedy writing skills. I’m embarrassed to say that earlier this week, I spent an hour and a half that involved reading a headline, researching the current event, and then actually writing a joke for it. If I want to write for CONAN, I obviously can not spend that much time on one joke. Then again I don’t have my own research team, but HEY, no excuses, amirite? So, this is the result of my embarrassingly-long journey. It went through many revisions, and I’m pretty proud of the end result…

*insert laughter here* I mean, you get it right? *nervous laughter* I had a hard time deciding whether to make fun of A&F or The Situation, but I ultimately went with A&F (I do work at AE Outfitters, after all). That joke went onto get a favorite on twitter and about 10 likes on Facebook. Pretty good! An average number of likes for me. At this point of my aspiring comedy writing career I’m trying less to cater to the audience and more just trying to post what I think is funny.

I was quite content with myself for finally writing a decent headline joke, until MY IDOL, CONAN MONOLOGUE WRITER ROB KUTNER, wrote this tweet several hours later…

WHY CAN’T I BE THIS FUNNY?! RRRRRROOOOOOBBBBBB!!!!!! *shakes fist at the sky*

Then again, the jokes are different in the idea that he decided to make fun of The Situation rather than A&F… but boy oh boy is his joke funnier.

One of my proudest achievements is becoming the 4th runner up out of 700 entires for the “SUBMIT A JOKE FOR CONAN TO TWEET” contest that happened right before the show started. You can read more about that on my very first post on tumblr here. In case you have a thing against clicking words that lead to other pages, below is the joke I wrote and submitted, as well as my response when I found out I was 4th in the list of honorable mentions that really made Conan O’Brien, Mike Sweeney, and Bley “really laugh!”

Ahhh. I am super proud of that one. That being said, I never thought I would see this…

OH MY GOSH. I MEAN… ANDRES DU BOUCHET! A CONAN WRITER. It feels like only recently that I wrote a blog post about how Andres tweeted a similar long-form joke that I did. HE PRETTY MUCH WROTE THE SAME JOKE I DID! Of course, the first thing that came to mind was, “Great minds think alike!” ;)

So naturally, I responded to Andres with my shock…

AND THEN, THIS HAPPENED:

RIP Jeffrey Vega.

Hahaha! But seriously! ISN’T THAT AWESOME?! I have the mindset of a CONAN writer, and I received a complement FROM a CONAN writer. Which is obviously fantastic, since CONAN will be my future workplace. And as I said mentioned earlier as a link, this isn’t the first time this has happened. MY CONFIDENCE IS THROUGH THE ROOF, EVERYBODY. :{D

P.S. I wonder if he knew “@nintendoboy” was ME, when we met back in June…?! Andres is on the far right! Also pictured: CONAN writer Todd Levin and my sister, Bridgett!

One of the people I follow on Twitter, is CONAN writer Andres du Bouchet, and this string of jokes showed up on my timeline tonight (read the following tweets from the bottom up)…

So, yeah, that’s hilarious! He’s “@” tweeting himself and correcting his own joke. Ah, so great. Yep… that’s only something a true and hilarious comedy writer would do… such… hilarity…! HEY WAIT A MINUTE- I DID THE EXACT SAME THING BACK IN DECEMBER 2010!

*jaw-dropped* You can imagine my shocked face when I saw Andres (A CONAN WRITER!) write something exactly the way I did. SO COOL! Basically, the reason why I posted this juxtaposition is because I just wanted to bring the idea that… “Great (Comedic) Minds Think Alike!” … Right? RIGHT?! *nervous smile + thumbs up*

Sometimes it’s really hard coming up with a good one-liner or just a joke in general, especially for twitter, but when I find out it’s not that funny, it feels like someone put out a cigarette in my eye. I write this short rant because I’ve been on such a good streak with witty tweets, and then I really get excited about a new joke that just comes to me that happens to be really good and BAM! I fall flat on my face. Okay my beautiful 14 followers, tell me if this is funny…

I paid $21.99 for Two-Day Shipping because I thought it would arrive TWO-DAY. UGH. This ended up being an expensive pair of socks.

*silence* WELL, I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY. I was so excited to post it, seeing as my last several tweets have been getting 10+ likes on Facebook, which is the best feeling to know someone enjoys what I write. I came up with this one out of nowhere, and I was so excited, and… *cue a kid-filled inflatable bouncy castle deflating* I get only a little feedback. I know, I sound like a whiny baby, and you’re probably thinking, “what’s the biggie fries?” Well, I KINDA WANT TO DO THIS FOR A LIVING. … woah, sorry for the all caps, I totally blew up, haha. It’s just that… I love making people laugh, and it’s always difficult to top your last great joke with an even better one, like this…

If AT&T received a text for every time I lost signal, then they- oh wait… they wouldn’t receive the text.

*huge studio audience laughter* This job is a hit or miss kind of thing. It reminds of what Conan says about his show and making people laugh… he says that they do their best to make people laugh, and if a joke doesn’t work out or something just really isn’t funny, they’ll try again tomorrow! Which, I guess in context he is talking about the format of his weeknightly (new word?!) show. I hope if I ever meet Conan (well, I did meet him, but we didn’t exactly talk… hahaha) I would definitely ask him his process for writing jokes. I mean, do some jokes just come to him, or does he spend time coming up with it? I believe it’s a mixture of both, but what do I know!?