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What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?!

2009-05-11 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · comedy performance

Having won an Edgar Award for Paper Towns, John runs through comic answers to 'What could you do with a Poe bust?' before deciding to keep it on the mantel.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting (Sunday); Paper Towns won an Edgar Award, so John owns a bust of Edgar Allan Poe

  • ★★ John tells Hank that last week Paper Towns won an Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America to the year's best mystery novels, so he owns a bust of Poe. — 00:00:01 · Paper Towns

00:00:13 — 'What could you do with a Poe bust?': comic list of uses (head, Wii, sunglasses, 'nevermore', waterboarding, fitness, garden gnome), ending on the mantel

  • ★★ John answers 'What could you do with a Poe bust?' with a run of comic uses: on his head, playing Wii, sunglasses, a talking 'nevermore', waterboarding, fitness equipment, a garden gnome. (playful) — 00:00:13
  • ★ In the end John decides he will just keep the Poe bust on the mantel. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:28

00:01:30 — P.S. in the bust's voice: Australian Nerdfighters, see the sidebar for upcoming events with John

  • ★★ In a P.S. voiced as the Poe bust, John tells Australian Nerdfighters to look in the sidebar for information about his upcoming events. (playful) — 00:01:30 · Nerdfighteria, Australia

Humor (dominant)

  • John plays Wii with the Poe bust and beats him. — 00:00:31 > «Oh! You just got Edgar Allan Pwned!»
  • Suggesting you could waterboard the bust, John interrogates Poe as if he were a suspect. — 00:01:08 > «I'm gonna ask you one last time, Edgar. What does the raven symbolize?»

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