# Funniest thing said without an audience to appreciate it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-thing-said-without-an-audience-to-appreciate-it/584623 "2011-06-07T14:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-thing-said-without-an-audience-to-appreciate-it/584623/1 "2011-06-07T14:43:12Z")
Just now I was playing with my daughter before bedtime, and for some reason she grabbed my finger and put it on her nose. I immediately said in my best Yakoff Smirnoff voice, “In Soviet Russia, nose gets _you_!” As my only audience at the time was five years old, I was rewarded with nothing but a quizzical look. Sigh. A good line wasted. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-thing-said-without-an-audience-to-appreciate-it/584623/2 "2011-06-07T17:50:28Z")
It’s a good job I wasn’t in the audience, it would’ve been wasted on me too! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-thing-said-without-an-audience-to-appreciate-it/584623/3 "2011-06-07T18:16:35Z")
My wife was telling my daughter about someone she knew who got her daughter a can of Mace as a Christmas present. I said “[The family that sprays together stays together](http://www.answers.com/topic/the-family-that-prays-together-stays-together)”, but they didn’t hear me.