cloud dreamer wrote:
> Tim McDaniel wrote:
>> The second episode of _New Amsterdam_ had a scene with John Amsterdam,
>> his partner, and a medical person (doctor, I'd guess, but maybe
>> someone else) walking into a morgue and up to a corpse. The dialog
>> was
>>
>> Medical Person: Just humor me. Al Sharpton and Billy Graham
>> decide they really gotta see the Pope. They take the Space
>> Shuttle an...
>>
>> John Amsterdam: Just *looks* like a parachute.
>>
>> MP: OK. A doctor, a lawyer, and a veterinarian --
>>
>> JA: Sue the duck.
>>
>> MP: Hank Aaron *dies* --
>>
>> JA: That's God. He just *thinks* he's Barry Bonds.
>>
>> MP: I hate you.
>>
>> Medical Person was starting to tell jokes and Johann was telling the
>> punch lines. (The lead-in, not shown, had to be MP starting to tell a
>> joke, JA spoiling the punch line and saying "Don't bother. I've heard
>> them all".)
>>
>> But it took me a little bit to realize that fact, partially because
>> they were speaking fast but also because I didn't recognize the jokes
>> (except by their structure). I got the dialog above by repeated
>> reviewing of the tape.
>>
>> So what *are* the jokes?
>>
>> (1) I suspect that's more usually told as <three famous people> and
>> <another person> take a plane, the engine develops problems,
>> they're told there's only one parachute, the first two <famous
>> people> explain why they should have it, third <famous person>
>> says he's the most im****tant person in the world, grabs the pack
>> off of <another person>'s back, and jumps out, with the punch line
>>
>> The most im****tant person in the world just stole my backpack.
>>
>> (2) No idea.
>>
>> (3) Not sure. I think I've heard a few jokes about God "just thinks
>> he's X", but I don't remember details.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>
> Doubtful they really are known jokes. They just made up the punchlines
> to...well...drive some people crazy trying to figure out the jokes.
>
> :)
No, I've heard them before, #1 is pretty much as he said, #2 I don't
remember anything but the duck and #3 is a variation about a Doctor...
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