Hilarious old joke about Newfoundland never winning Tony for Best Director suddenly obsolete
ST. JOHN'S, NL—We're going to have to come up with a new one.
After last night, when director Chris Ashley won Best Director for Come From Away, the hit musical sensation set in Gander, Newfoundland, Canadians across the country are going to have to put away one of the most classic of Newfoundland jokes, and come up with something new.
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"It's such a good one, too," says Gregg Tollington of Brandon, Manitoba. "Oh you don't know it? Okay here, I'll tell it one last time."
"Okay, why has no one from Newfoundland ever won the Tony for Best Director?" he said, already stifling a giggle. "Because they don't — sorry, I mean because he doesn't… oh what was it, what is it. It's so good. I'm so mad it doesn't work anymore, though!"
Toronto-based standup comic Rebecca Graham says that it's up to comedians to come up with something new when times change.
"Everybody loves that joke, it's true," explains Graham. "But if we can't come up with a funny Newfoundland joke that's not based around them never having won a Tony, honourary or otherwise, for direction of a musical, we're just not good enough at our job. There's lots of other material available. Maybe something about the Daytime Emmys, for instance."
At press time, Tollington was still trying to remember the joke. "OHHH, it's, okay, a guy walks into a bar and — wait, no. Knock kn — say 'knock knock' to me. You're going to love this, honestly."
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