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I think about this a lot in humor contexts. Many jokes rely on passing cultural contexts that isn't documented and isn't made explicit. Example: In my experien
by joshmarlow 4y ago
I think about this a lot in humor contexts. Many jokes rely on passing cultural contexts that isn't documented and isn't made explicit.
Example: In my experience "The chad was good" and various jokes around "hanging chads" and "pregnant chads" still sometimes land with people who remember the 2000 election and Charlie's Angles, but anyone a little younger misses it.
Now I'm curious how many jokes in an episode of "John Oliver" or Southpark land even a year or two after the episode airs.
- autoexec 4y agoA lot of the jokes in last week tonight don't exactly land when they originally air either, but that has more to do with the writers than available context. I run into this problem not just when watching old shows, but also when watching contemporary TV developed in other countries. Usually it's references to proper nouns I've never heard of, and I do often look those up, but even once you know what or who something was sometimes you'd have to be willing to go deep into various rabbit holes to really understand it.
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- Cyphase 4y agoThank you. You've just helped ensure that knowledge of the "chad" reference's links to the 2000 election and Charlie's Angels will live on, in this case via the various archives of HN content out there in the world. Hello future people!
- joshmarlow 4y agoGlad I finally made my mark on civilization :D