How the hell is this funny?
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Found a variant of this on a local comedian's web site yesterday, and I'm still pissed off - and I don't get pissed off outside of coding, ever - that anyone find it funny: Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside. He looked up and said weakly, "I have something I must confess." "There's no need to, " his wife replied. "No," he insisted, "I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!" "I know," she replied, "now just rest and let the poison work." So, an angry wife poisons her husband because of his adultery, and he only finds out while he is dying. This reads like a gossip column. It lacks any of the humorous elements found in jokes, like sarcasm, irony, wordplay, surprise. It is straight out of Idiocracy, "Ow, my balls are sore", but less funny.
Sense of humour bypass much? Most humour is distasteful to some people, for one reason or another. How many dead baby jokes are there, yet I assure you that if you watch a baby still-born you find those just a tad less funny. How about Blonde/Irish jokes? Think they're as funny of you're blonde or Irish (or god forbid, a blonde Irish woman)
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Found a variant of this on a local comedian's web site yesterday, and I'm still pissed off - and I don't get pissed off outside of coding, ever - that anyone find it funny: Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside. He looked up and said weakly, "I have something I must confess." "There's no need to, " his wife replied. "No," he insisted, "I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!" "I know," she replied, "now just rest and let the poison work." So, an angry wife poisons her husband because of his adultery, and he only finds out while he is dying. This reads like a gossip column. It lacks any of the humorous elements found in jokes, like sarcasm, irony, wordplay, surprise. It is straight out of Idiocracy, "Ow, my balls are sore", but less funny.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside.
Oh dear, sad story.
Brady Kelly wrote:
He looked up and said weakly, "I have something I must confess."
"There's no need to, " his wife replied.Ooh, interesting.
Brady Kelly wrote:
"No," he insisted, "I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!"
Oh my, that is sure to be a shock for the old girl, and a little selfish of him wanting absolution at the end like that.
Brady Kelly wrote:
"I know," she replied, "now just rest and let the poison work."
Ha ha ha, the joke is on him. He wasn't expecting that was he. Your thought process is supposed to go something like that. I think it is a reasonable joke (if a little old) that conforms to the standard switch in thought direction punchline at the end.
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ChrisElston wrote:
Ha ha ha, the joke is on him
Now I get it!
Peter Wasser Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa
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I don't deal with PC. I make and laugh at all sorts of jokes, but there must be some wit involved.
Fair enough, some people find this funny, others (like you) do not. What's the big deal?
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Found a variant of this on a local comedian's web site yesterday, and I'm still pissed off - and I don't get pissed off outside of coding, ever - that anyone find it funny: Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside. He looked up and said weakly, "I have something I must confess." "There's no need to, " his wife replied. "No," he insisted, "I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!" "I know," she replied, "now just rest and let the poison work." So, an angry wife poisons her husband because of his adultery, and he only finds out while he is dying. This reads like a gossip column. It lacks any of the humorous elements found in jokes, like sarcasm, irony, wordplay, surprise. It is straight out of Idiocracy, "Ow, my balls are sore", but less funny.
The joke is that the wife knew all along, reversing her role from widow victim to black widow. Presentation lacks the buildup to a revealing deathbed-confession, and probably nowadays the cultural background that cheating on your spouse is something deathbed-confession-worthy. It's old, back then, there was no need to "make it more hilarious by listing about half a dozen women". Now, no, it won't get funnier for you. If you can't laugh the first time, explaining a joke doesn't usually make it better. Just so you know.
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The joke is that the wife knew all along, reversing her role from widow victim to black widow. Presentation lacks the buildup to a revealing deathbed-confession, and probably nowadays the cultural background that cheating on your spouse is something deathbed-confession-worthy. It's old, back then, there was no need to "make it more hilarious by listing about half a dozen women". Now, no, it won't get funnier for you. If you can't laugh the first time, explaining a joke doesn't usually make it better. Just so you know.
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The joke is that the wife knew all along, reversing her role from widow victim to black widow.
I'm slowly starting to see how others find that funny, but for me it's sort of one of the expected outcomes.
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Hey..... everything in South Africa is just one big joke :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
No matter how long he who laughs last laughs, he who laughs first has a head start!
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Ouch! +5 Well, necklacing's not so funny - certainly not the kind of fun one has when necklacing one's significant other in the western world.
Yes, they do have a twisted version of necklacing.... But our best comedians run the country, there's this one joke they told where a guy spilt his drink on the President at a horse race and he got sentenced.... wait, that actually happened, or the one where an MP was pulled over by Metro Police for speeding so she had them suspended... wait, that also actually happend... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
No matter how long he who laughs last laughs, he who laughs first has a head start!
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Jokes are always funnier when you explain them. I'm always on hand to help out. :laugh:
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Please explain DD to me. ;P
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Please explain DD to me. ;P
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
DD is when a woman's breasts are 11 inches, from where breast tissue begins under one arm, across the nipple, to where breast tissue ends at the breast bone.
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Jokes are always funnier when you explain them. I'm always on hand to help out. :laugh:
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ChrisElston wrote:
Jokes are always funnier when you explain them.
No. Never explain them.
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Found a variant of this on a local comedian's web site yesterday, and I'm still pissed off - and I don't get pissed off outside of coding, ever - that anyone find it funny: Jake was dying. His wife sat at the bedside. He looked up and said weakly, "I have something I must confess." "There's no need to, " his wife replied. "No," he insisted, "I want to die in peace. I slept with your sister, your best friend, her best friend, and your mother!" "I know," she replied, "now just rest and let the poison work." So, an angry wife poisons her husband because of his adultery, and he only finds out while he is dying. This reads like a gossip column. It lacks any of the humorous elements found in jokes, like sarcasm, irony, wordplay, surprise. It is straight out of Idiocracy, "Ow, my balls are sore", but less funny.
I'm with you on that one, though without the anger - just a "that's a bit sad and lame". The interesting thing is that you couldn't tell that joke in reverse: the guy poisoning the wife. Then it becomes very dark.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Sense of humour bypass much? Most humour is distasteful to some people, for one reason or another. How many dead baby jokes are there, yet I assure you that if you watch a baby still-born you find those just a tad less funny. How about Blonde/Irish jokes? Think they're as funny of you're blonde or Irish (or god forbid, a blonde Irish woman)
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I'm with you on that one, though without the anger - just a "that's a bit sad and lame". The interesting thing is that you couldn't tell that joke in reverse: the guy poisoning the wife. Then it becomes very dark.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Yeah, I think the anger was juxtaposed from other simultaneous happenings with genuine human stupidity.
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Where is the crux of the joke, the punchline? Is it that he didn't know he was being poisoned, or that he didn't know his wife was aware of his adultery? Both seem plain everyday scenarios to me. Do you see what I mean?
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Are you saying that jokes can't be predictable? From what I see, they usually are. You did manage to find the irony in the joke though.
Yes, but in a real life kind of way. It could sort of be funnier as a real scenario than as a joke.
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Yes, but in a real life kind of way. It could sort of be funnier as a real scenario than as a joke.
