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How did the class do?
When I do this exercise I’m fascinated by the sheer range of jokes that I get back
from just offering my class a few sentences. I’m actually convinced that I could
give  a  group  any  sentence  and  tell  them  there  is  a  joke  there  and  they  would
come up with something, because they trust that a joke is there. Also, how often
do  you  spend  time  staring  at  one  sentence,  looking  at  every  connotation?  As  I
usually  put  people  in  groups  of  four  so  there’s  all  that  brain  power  going  over
just a few words. It’s not surprising that for the one sentence I get three or four
jokes back.
Here’s  what  I  got  back  from  my  class,  and  underneath  is  the  joke  that  was
originally broadcast. The point of the exercise is not to get it ‘right,’ it’s just to
get you into that way of thinking, and show you how professional programmes
work.