when somebody makes a cracker of a joke, creating a glory moment similar to the epic feeling of stopping a motorbike on the edge of a cliff, then 'falls off' in the process of making another, this time lame, joke, as they go for too much glory.
Person #1: "You're so gay you make a circle look straight"
Crowd: "HA HA HA"
Person #1 (Feeling cocky): you're so gay you make a gay man look straight
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)