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minus-squareAmphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·11 months agoYou’re not wrong, but what was posted here was a “joke,” and it would have been weakened by making it unnecessarily realistic.
minus-squareJerkface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoNo fewer than 23 people were like “Yeah, no, Gary. There’s no way you could stretch that out into 100 minutes.”
minus-squarethefartographer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI want to listen to your 10-minute TedTalk about how explaining jokes or taking them too seriously makes them not funny anymore
You’re not wrong, but what was posted here was a “joke,” and it would have been weakened by making it unnecessarily realistic.
No fewer than 23 people were like “Yeah, no, Gary. There’s no way you could stretch that out into 100 minutes.”
I want to listen to your 10-minute TedTalk about how explaining jokes or taking them too seriously makes them not funny anymore