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This is exclusively the most primitive joke category base on double meanings. The jokes listed are boring and maybe suited for fillers in a standup routine. Du

This is exclusively the most primitive joke category base on double meanings. The jokes listed are boring and maybe suited for fillers in a standup routine. Due to the title I presume that this is another pro-"AI" article that devalues human ingenuity. Well, enjoy the non-funny jokes. I'll stick to pre-2022 material.

seanhunter 2y ago
The jokes in the article are just there to demonstrate the pattern. There are lots of more sophisticated jokes which clearly follow the same pattern. For example Milton Jones' classic (which won "best joke" at the edinburgh comedy festival I believe) I come from a long line of police marksmen. Apart from my grandfather, who was a bank robber. But he died recently..... surrounded by his family. More Milton Jones "grandfather" jokes which all clearly demonstrate this pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUfbSrpsHk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUfbSrpsHk
- badjoak 2y ago
  I came from a long line of police marksmen. They serve good coffee next to the shooting range.
  - badjoak 2y ago
    I came from a long line of police marksmen. We just won the precinct charity cancan dance competition.
    - lyu07282 2y ago
      the actually funny part is where you decided to create a throwaway account to make the joke
      - mewpmewp2 2y ago
        And that they even knew the jokes were bad since their name is "badjoak".
- Freak_NL 2y ago
  The ten best-voted one-liners from this year's Fringe are listed here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/19/mark-simmons-ship-joke-named-funniest-of-edinburgh-fringe https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/19/mark-s... A couple follow that pattern exactly, but some also bank on taking words literally for comic effect. > I love the Olympics. My friend and I invented a new type of relay baton. Well, he came up with the idea, I ran with it. (Mark Simmons)
  - mewpmewp2 2y ago
    But these are really not that funny. Specifically because you imagine that this is what you get if you bruteforce those combinations. If someone comes up on the spot with this and wants to share, sure it might be funny and clever, but if a professional comedian does jokes likes this, it seems plain and irrelevant. Just something that was bruteforced together.
- mewpmewp2 2y ago
  But this is not truly funny comedy. These seem quite clearly made up and depend on this very specific scenario. I think truly funny jokes are ones that are plausible real life scenarios, that spot some sort of unexpected social circumstance or a phenomena with a clever take or perspective that people do not frequently consider and that many in the audience can relate with. Usually you would expect it to be something that actually happened or could have happened to the comedy teller, and you want to imagine them actually be in that situation. Or it can also be a common real life scenario, but an original, yet clever insightful take on it combined with the character of the teller.
  - seanhunter 2y ago
    Well as E.B. White put it, explaining a joke is a like disecting a frog. You learn a lot but the thing dies in the process. People do find Milton Jones funny - he won the Perrier "Best Newcomer" Award which is a pretty big deal in UK comedy.
akoboldfrying 2y ago
Words with two meanings are just one type of shared aspect in their system. The "hunting cakes" joke was an example of using a shared aspect that isn't a word. (And while it didn't wow me on the page, I think it's the type of joke that a talented comic could make much funnier through their delivery.) I agree that most of the jokes were weak, but they basically have to use one-liners in order to give many quick examples, and nearly all one-liners I meet are bad. That said, I genuinely enjoyed the "step ladder" one.

seanhunter 2y ago

The jokes in the article are just there to demonstrate the pattern. There are lots of more sophisticated jokes which clearly follow the same pattern. For example Milton Jones' classic (which won "best joke" at the edinburgh comedy festival I believe) I come from a long line of police marksmen. Apart from my grandfather, who was a bank robber. But he died recently..... surrounded by his family. More Milton Jones "grandfather" jokes which all clearly demonstrate this pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUfbSrpsHk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUfbSrpsHk

badjoak 2y ago
I came from a long line of police marksmen. They serve good coffee next to the shooting range.
- badjoak 2y ago
  I came from a long line of police marksmen. We just won the precinct charity cancan dance competition.
  - lyu07282 2y ago
    the actually funny part is where you decided to create a throwaway account to make the joke
    - mewpmewp2 2y ago
      And that they even knew the jokes were bad since their name is "badjoak".
Freak_NL 2y ago
The ten best-voted one-liners from this year's Fringe are listed here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/19/mark-simmons-ship-joke-named-funniest-of-edinburgh-fringe https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/19/mark-s... A couple follow that pattern exactly, but some also bank on taking words literally for comic effect. > I love the Olympics. My friend and I invented a new type of relay baton. Well, he came up with the idea, I ran with it. (Mark Simmons)
- mewpmewp2 2y ago
  But these are really not that funny. Specifically because you imagine that this is what you get if you bruteforce those combinations. If someone comes up on the spot with this and wants to share, sure it might be funny and clever, but if a professional comedian does jokes likes this, it seems plain and irrelevant. Just something that was bruteforced together.
mewpmewp2 2y ago
But this is not truly funny comedy. These seem quite clearly made up and depend on this very specific scenario. I think truly funny jokes are ones that are plausible real life scenarios, that spot some sort of unexpected social circumstance or a phenomena with a clever take or perspective that people do not frequently consider and that many in the audience can relate with. Usually you would expect it to be something that actually happened or could have happened to the comedy teller, and you want to imagine them actually be in that situation. Or it can also be a common real life scenario, but an original, yet clever insightful take on it combined with the character of the teller.
- seanhunter 2y ago
  Well as E.B. White put it, explaining a joke is a like disecting a frog. You learn a lot but the thing dies in the process. People do find Milton Jones funny - he won the Perrier "Best Newcomer" Award which is a pretty big deal in UK comedy.

akoboldfrying 2y ago

Words with two meanings are just one type of shared aspect in their system. The "hunting cakes" joke was an example of using a shared aspect that isn't a word. (And while it didn't wow me on the page, I think it's the type of joke that a talented comic could make much funnier through their delivery.) I agree that most of the jokes were weak, but they basically have to use one-liners in order to give many quick examples, and nearly all one-liners I meet are bad. That said, I genuinely enjoyed the "step ladder" one.