#explaining jokes

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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.

Oh! A start to a classic joke.

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