Gene Krupa goes to heaven

[kesslari]

Apologies in advance if you don't get it, you have to know Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, 2 of the great swing Jazz drummers.

So Gene Krupa dies and goes to heaven.
St. Peter meets him and welcomes him warmly, says "up here we're all big fans of your music, Mr. Krupa, if there's anything we can do to make your stay more comfortable, please say so."
Gene looks at St. Peter and says "please, if I can ask for it, please don't have my room be near Buddy' Rich's room. Is that OK?"
St. Peter says "Sure, we'll put you in a completely different part of Heaven".
So Gene goes to his room, and gets his drums set up, and plays a bit, and it is all indeed quite heavenly. Then he decides it's time for a rest, so he goes over to his nice fleecy cloudy bed and lies down.
After a few minutes he hears that unmistakeable Buddy Rich double bass swing beat, quite close by.
And it ticks him off.

So he goes back to St. Peter and says "look, I didn't ask for much. All my life I've been compared to Buddy Rich, he's gotten more fame and glory and all that, I'd just like some space to myself up here, and you go an put me right next to him even though I asked you not to! What gives?"

St. Peter looks at him blankly, and says "No mate, Buddy Rich is clear across heaven from you".

Gene says "Can't be, I can hear him playing right next door!"

St. Peter thinks for a moment, brightens and says "Oh, that's just God! He just THINKS he's Buddy Rich..."

[lunarpollen]

If I could play drums like anyone in history it would be like Gene Krupa

[Beast]

hahaha classy.

[Valerus]

Nice joke! haha.

[mutedeity]

I like the irony.

Ever hear the story about Buddy Rich playing golf and hitting the ball into the water hazzard? Apparently, in typical form he lost his cool and threw his golf bag right in after it and stormed off to go home leaving his friends standing there stunned. Ten minutes later he comes back, wades into the water and pulls the golf bag out. Everyone thinks he has cooled off and thought better of it. The next thing he does is rummage through the bag for his car keys, finds them and throws the bag back into the water. This time he leaves for good.

Apparently a true story.