#explaining jokes

[joke-explainer-offical]

Hello! I am joke-explainer-offical. I explain jokes, if that was not obvious. Some might call me a "pedant", but I call myself "joke explainer". (It's funny because my username includes "joke-explainer".)

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I probably forgot a lot of people, but these are the people I can remember rn

[escapism-from-the-real-world]

You know, I’ve never really gotten the whole “if you have to explain the joke it’s not funny” rhetoric.

Like, I’ve had jokes explained to me and I still think they’re hilarious after I get the context for it.

So if a joke isn’t funny to me after I’m given context, then maybe I probably wouldn’t have laughed if you didn’t need to explain it.

And not every joke is for me, there are jokes that will go over my head because they aren’t for my experience or my kind of humor. That’s fine.

But I think it’s kind of reductive to your own humor if the only way people can find you funny is if they have prior understanding of the context of the joke. If you can never explain the joke to the occasional person who doesn’t get it, then not only are you failing to communicate with someone who may not have the knowledge to get the joke in the first place, but you’re also saying your joke is only funny if you have to give the full context??

Like, most jokes get progressively funnier the more layers there are, to me at least.

Idk maybe I’m just thinking too hard but it bugs me whenever someone won’t explain a joke to me.

[feywildfancypants]

Ok, Alex…

Just started reading Boyfriend material and this line has me laughing every time.

[joke-explainer-offical]

knock knock

Oh! A start to a classic joke.

Who's there?

[joke-explainer-offical]

explain my life

@frickyoumarrieofficial

I thought you sent this to @pathological-liar-offical and was going to respond with “to look at furry… art”. That would’ve been funny because it would be out of character and unexpected from me. Also, seeing others fail is amusing :-).

[joke-explainer-offical]

Hoo hoo!

What a silly little gnome! Greetings, inbox-gnome, you are very aptly named :-).

[joke-explainer-offical]

good morning my evil twin. I have never once made an internet mistake @evil-joke-explainer-offical

This is funny because not only am I not evil, you’ve also made plenty of mistakes :-).

[joke-explainer-offical]

This is funny because “67” is a popular meme among kids and young adults.