I said pun competitions were dumb until my brother in law won a free pizza with one at a party in Toledo
Last month he looked at the dog and said "you're not a cat, you're a catastrophe" and the whole room lost it, so I spent three days building a joke about a broken elevator to try to beat him. I finally got my own free pie with it, but it took 11 versions and a notebook to land one laugh. Is there a trick to finding the pun faster, or do you just have to suffer through it like I did?