The World’s Longest Joke Taught Me How to Write

It pays to be patient

Asher "Zach" Neuman
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readMar 13, 2021

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Photo by Malcolm Lightbody on Unsplash

I’ve never laughed so much at a 45-minute joke.

I must have looked like an idiot, sitting at my desk for such a long time, glued to my phone and scrolling down with intense movements. It felt like time slowed down, and my mind started trying to dart my eyes away from the same text about some guy and a snake. But, I had…

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