I found this article [1] to be much more enlightening [2]. The problem is not so much that puns are bad, but that so many puns are just bad puns. As described

I found this article [1] to be much more enlightening [2]. The problem is not so much that puns are bad, but that so many puns are just bad puns. As described here [3], > "It's not enough to just substitute a word that sounds the same (aka a 'homophone'); for example, which is funnier, 'Be kind to your dentist because he has fillings too' or 'She ate my breakfast role'? You probably said the first pun, because the meaning of the substitute word also makes sense in the context of the sentence, and it’s this second meaning that actually makes the joke funny." [1] https://slifty.com/2016/03/a-puntitled-framework-for-evaluating-the-quality-of-puns/ https://slifty.com/2016/03/a-puntitled-framework-for-evaluat... [2] Heh. [3] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2014/06/17/computational-model-measure-good-bad-puns-really/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2014/06/1...