Comedy = Music?

I've been thinking about this one for a little while and figured I'd go ahead and throw it out there.

I think stand up comedy is a lot like music.

A good joke, like a good song, progresses from an introduction, through the rising action/setup (verse/chorus/verse), to a punchline (climax), while periodically being punctuated by tangents/rants (bridge/breakdowns). And just like in music, there can be really really bad jokes whose structures are nonsensical or maybe some that just plain don't make sense. Trying to make a connection between these kind of "bad" jokes/comedians, I wonder if the fact that bands like The Dillinger Escape Plan, August Burns Red, and Norma Jean (old-good NJ, not new-bad NJ) can make discordant, caustic music sound good, there is some sort of unseen brilliance behind comedians that make these bad-according-to-the-definition-of-popular-comedy type jokes. Maybe it's a little more deliberate than I would initially think.

I'll tell you what, I'll give this some good hard thinking and get back to you on this one. Unfortunately, that's all I've really got for you this week.

Soooo...here's to a poor excuse for a posting! More later.