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https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/te...90znb1for8k&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink A Groan-Up Daughter Makes a Lot of Cents Telling Dad Jokes 19-year-old Neve Pratt has legions of fans and a steady income from videos of her cornball humor; ‘And the crowd goes mild!’ By Simon J. Levien Sept. 10, 2023 at 7:00 am ET Neve Pratt thought of a popcorn pun but said she’d rather keep it to herself. “It’s a bit too…corny.” The king of Dad jokes is a 19-year-old sophomore at Utah State University. From her social-media stage, Pratt has aired hundreds of original and recycled jokes with a cringey delivery that has drawn more than 650,000 TikTok followers and millions of eye rolls. Punchlines are followed by awkward, fumbling silences that, to great effect, last a couple of beats too long. “So what if I can’t spell Armageddon?” she says in one video. “It’s not like it’s the end of the world.” Tick. Tick. Fans leave her such comments as, “Horrific watch, as always,” or the Dad-joke inflected, “And the crowd goes mild.” Helen Blodgett, Pratt’s freshman roommate, said she recalled one of Pratt’s first jokes at the university dining hall last year: How do I take my coffee? Seriously. Very seriously. “My friends were, like, getting a kick out of it one night. I was just doing Dad jokes,” Pratt said. “They’re, like, ‘Your delivery is something else.’ I was, like, ‘Yeah, it’s pretty awkward, isn’t it?’ “ Pratt’s first videos were intended to entertain friends and family. “Then we got back from Christmas vacation,” her friend Blodgett said. “People started recognizing her on campus.” Videos went viral, and Pratt was soon recording as many as four a day for @wisewordsfromneve. “They never have the candy I like at the movie theater,” Pratt says. “That’s why I always got a couple of Twix up my sleeve!” Tick. Tick. Pratt is a pickleballer, skier and snowboarder. On a ski lift last winter, she was making wise with fellow passengers heading up the slopes, Blodgett said. “You can’t buy happiness,” Pratt says on a video, “but you can buy a ski pass.” Tick. Tick. Neve’s father, Bill Pratt, said he and his wife, Jenna Pratt, were always joking around at home in Holladay, Utah, outside of Salt Lake City. “It’s definitely rubbed off on all our kids…Neve especially,” said Pratt, 53, who works in sales for a tech company. “Jenna and I, we think we’re pretty funny. Our other kids may not.” Jenna Pratt, the mother of four, said, “Dad jokes? I jokingly take offense to that. I’m just as funny.” Everybody is now pitching in—the elder Pratts and Blodgett—either helping behind the camera to record TikTok segments or workshopping gags. Neve Pratt has landed gigs with the NBA’s Utah Jazz and the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, telling knee-slappers with Buoy, the Kraken mascot. “The fact that I’m making a salary off of Dad jokes is wild,” said Pratt, who revealed only that her returns were enough to make a living. From a scholarly perspective, Dad jokes are a form of fatherly teasing that can teach children to lighten up, said Marc Hye-Knudsen, a humor researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark. They are a way of “showing your kids that it’s OK to be lame,” he said. “Embarrassment is not the worst thing in the world.” Generally, the worse the Dad jokes, the more people laugh. “You can be so lame or so stupid or so unfunny that that, paradoxically, makes it funny,” Hye-Knudsen said. “Have you ever tried eating a clock?” Pratt asks. “It’s really time-consuming…especially if you go for seconds.” Tick. Tick. Celebrity has followed Pratt to the real world. Her father said she has been hailed by fans during family vacations. Many butcher her first name, Neve, which rhymes with Bev. During a restaurant outing, “the server stopped midsentence and said, ‘Are you Neve?’ I’m fan-girling right now,” Bill Pratt recalled. “Jenna and I looked up,” he said, and they wondered, “What in the world is happening right now?” “Me and websites are very similar,” Pratt says in a video. “We both use cookies to enhance our performance.” Tick. Tick. Neve Pratt is studying to be a nurse but feels the tug of stand-up comedy. She dreams of appearing on the TV show “Saturday Night Live,” where a live audience could groan in appreciation. When she first toured the Utah State campus, Pratt joked with the guide about her career aspirations. “I was, like, ‘Oh yeah, my major is comedy,’ ”she said. “And I ran with it.” more incl. photos at the link
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