Monday, October 20, 2008

You have to be a storyteller......

to truly appreciate this joke!


A professional storyteller comes home to a burned down house.

His sobbing and slightly-singed wife is standing outside.

"What happened, honey?" the man asks.

"Oh, John, it was terrible," she weeps. "I was cooking, the phone rang.
It was a booking agent wanting to hire you for an event.
Because I was on the phone, I didn't notice the stove was on fire.
It went up in second. Everything is gone.
I nearly didn't make it out of the house. Poor Fluffy is..."

"Wait! Back up a minute," The man says.
"A booking agent wants to hire me?"


When I read this I thought, "Yep, that's just what I'd be thinking!"
My next thought would be "OMG! My books!"



As you can see, fluffy was found but she was never quite the same.


I got this joke from Mike Miller, Full Contact Storyteller and Professional Silly Person

1 comments:

Dianne de Las Casas said...

Hi Lauren!

Glad to find you here! You should join Professional Storyteller, a social network site designed just for storytellers. http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com. It's a great site that connects storytellers from around the world. Great blog. Hope to see you around!

Warmly,
Dianne de Las Casas
Founder of Professional Storyteller
Author of The Story Biz Handbook: How to Manage Your Storytelling Career from the Desk to the Stage (Libraries Unlimited 2008)
http://www.storyconnection.net