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Lots of people think it's a Jeopardy reference, but actually I was thinking of that time Watson and I were cellmates in prison, and it kept raping me. After I

Lots of people think it's a Jeopardy reference, but actually I was thinking of that time Watson and I were cellmates in prison, and it kept raping me. After I read that response I scrolled right back up and checked his proof that it's him. I knew Ken Jennings has a sense of humor, but I clearly underestimated him.

joelhaus 16y ago
The retort wasn't bad either: How bad can a 3½-inch floppy be?
blahedo 16y ago
See also: "Bruce Vilanch is hiding under my desk right now. Unfortunately he's not writing jokes for me, if you know what I mean."
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sudont 16y ago
He said further down that he likes to turn the assumption of boring mormons on it's head. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/c1j6nyf http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeop...
- mattgreenrocks 16y ago
  How edgy.
- burgerbrain 16y ago
  What better way to clear up mormon stereotypes than by making prison rape jokes....
Benjo 16y ago
I was a little jarred that he explicitly mentioned rape. Don't get me wrong, nothing is off-limits for a joke, provided it is funny enough, but this joke is just as funny without the last clause. Including it is just redundant, not to mention it pulls the punchline slightly. To me it reads like he's trying to be offensive. I guess this version of the punchline could hit through a language barrier though?
- syllogism 16y ago
  Ehhh, it depends on your expectations (or how you "mentally deliver" it, for a text joke). To me just a prison rape reference is kind of tired, so spelling it out contradicted my expectations and was much funnier.
  - Benjo 16y ago
    Ah, I hadn't considered that reading of it. For what it's worth, I'd want a full stop period or even line break before the second punchline before I'd read it that way. In that way the joke is perhaps much more funny to people who read it that way and only slightly less funny to others.
edanm 16y ago
My favorite answer: "My Sunday school teacher, when I was a Mormon teen, once memorably advised us that "There's nothing more overrated than sex, and nothing more underrated than a good bowel movement." It totally worked...I don't remember a single other sermon from when I was a kid, but I think about this guy exactly once a day, and then again once a week."

joelhaus 16y ago

The retort wasn't bad either: How bad can a 3½-inch floppy be?

blahedo 16y ago

See also: "Bruce Vilanch is hiding under my desk right now. Unfortunately he's not writing jokes for me, if you know what I mean."

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sudont 16y ago

He said further down that he likes to turn the assumption of boring mormons on it's head. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/c1j6nyf http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeop...

mattgreenrocks 16y ago
How edgy.
burgerbrain 16y ago
What better way to clear up mormon stereotypes than by making prison rape jokes....

Benjo 16y ago

I was a little jarred that he explicitly mentioned rape. Don't get me wrong, nothing is off-limits for a joke, provided it is funny enough, but this joke is just as funny without the last clause. Including it is just redundant, not to mention it pulls the punchline slightly. To me it reads like he's trying to be offensive. I guess this version of the punchline could hit through a language barrier though?

syllogism 16y ago
Ehhh, it depends on your expectations (or how you "mentally deliver" it, for a text joke). To me just a prison rape reference is kind of tired, so spelling it out contradicted my expectations and was much funnier.
- Benjo 16y ago
  Ah, I hadn't considered that reading of it. For what it's worth, I'd want a full stop period or even line break before the second punchline before I'd read it that way. In that way the joke is perhaps much more funny to people who read it that way and only slightly less funny to others.

edanm 16y ago

My favorite answer: "My Sunday school teacher, when I was a Mormon teen, once memorably advised us that "There's nothing more overrated than sex, and nothing more underrated than a good bowel movement." It totally worked...I don't remember a single other sermon from when I was a kid, but I think about this guy exactly once a day, and then again once a week."