You probably have heard the age old adage, “God made man in His image. Man returned the favor.” That would be a quote from Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain. It has nothing to do with this post.
I love it when folks say, “You’re funny,” to me because it makes me feel like they find me funny. But its all a lie. I’m not funny. If you walk up to me and say, “Randy, give me all of your money.” you are more likely to get money than if you were to walk up to me and say, “Be funny” and get a joke. I think you’d have a much higher chance of walking up to George Bush and getting the correct spelling for ‘strategery’ than you would me whipping out a funny quip. But I do try.
What really gets me going is a funny scenario where my mind can just go off into the never-never land of imagination and put people in very, very strange situations that could never happen. For example putting me in a fast food employee scenario. That would be weird because I could riff on the concepts given me. The problem with that scenario is that its been done too many times. However, what if a person worked fast food and truly excelled at there job? What then? Imagine the annoyed customers when an employee actually gave a rip! I would be really ticked off if an employee actually asked me if I liked my food while I’m trying to reconstruct the elements that could potentially make up a hamburger.
And that, in short, is why there is not a Sit-Com based on the comedy material of Randy Peterman. Because there really isn’t comedy material… its just a bunch of pops and clicks that happen to coincide with very strange thoughts that come out as a tumultuous blech of weirdness. And there’s already a show called Southpark that does that.
Don’t give up on the idea. Jerry Seinfeld made millions that way. (Except his pops and clicks were querky base guitar riffs.)