A Facebook user has beaten off stiff competition to pick up the coveted, Best Joke Ever Award for Comedic Innovation, after his hilarious actions saw him “throw out the rule book” when he switched the first letters of his forename and surname in what humans have described as “the funniest thing to have ever happened to anyone anywhere”.
Experts have said that it’s the “stark simplicity of the joke” and its “commentary on the nature of identity itself” which makes switching the first letters from your first name and surname so revolutionary and that it’s obviously the work of a genius comedy mind like “your man that makes Mrs. Brown’s Boys”.
“Like most hilarious things,” offered winner Kurt Bryan, “it’s inspired by something that actually happened to me in my real life.”
“I was introducing myself to a girl that I’d been stalking on Facebook, when I began nervously stuttering,” he continued. “The next thing I know instead of saying my name was Kurt Bryan, I’m saying my name is Burt Kryan, which is like my name is Burt and I’m crying,” he laughed, wiping tears from his eyes.
“You’ll have to excuse me I’m laughing just remembering it,” continued Kurt. “Thankfully the girl who I was speaking to knows groundbreaking comedy when she sees or smells it, so she burst into laughter too. That’s when I knew, if she, who on her Facebook profile has listed the Tim Allen classic, Wild Hogs, as her favourite film, thinks it’s funny – then it’s pretty much totes jokes.”
Kurt claims he decided to show the world his unbridled genius by switching the first letters of both his first and last name on his Facebook profile which was met with immediate praise from friends and acquaintances causing it to become something of an internet craze like the brilliant planking or bullying women.
“It’s right up there with some of the best jokes or comedic ideas of all time,” offered Kurt’s now girlfriend and manager, Carrol Bunt. “Funnier even than rape jokes or people falling over.”
“It was the funniest thing I’d seen all minute,” claimed Kurt’s friend, Bobby Barlow, whose name is unfortunately alliterative and therefore is incapable of hilariously switching the first letters of both his fore and surname. “I was online flitting between girls I know on Facebook and porn at the time I saw what Kurt had done. When I laughed so much that my penis went instantly from hard to flaccid, which is how all true comedy is actually judged.”
Kurt concluded our brief few moments with him before he embarked on a life that will surely include comedy superstardom by informing us that he’s hard at work breaking new comedy ground by “making fart noises with [his] armpit”, something called a “whoopee cushion” and developing a highly secretive comedy project he simply calls “knock knock”.
