• butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Right, but a lot of those aren’t layers of the joke, they’re just unrelated aspects of the joke. It’s funny, but layer 1 = beards getting grey as they get older, layer 2 = he’s gay and his beard is more white now. All the other things you mentioned are just additional strands of spaghetti sticking to the wall.

    This has big:

    "[mediocre post].

    Let that sink in."

    energy.

    • theneverfox@pawb.social
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, because when you explain the joke it’s not funny… It’s how jokes work

      I tried to preserve whatever humor is left to be had, not actually be funny. The joke was far funnier than it could ever be deconstructed as