Comment on 🎶I keep dancing on my own🎶

• brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Normally when someone asks “would you like to dance” it’s an invitation to dance with that person. In the comic, the lady did not invite the little guy to dance with her, as he and the reader expected.

  People often find subversion of expectations like that to be funny.

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• Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Your inability to find humor in something does not mean that there is no humor.

  The issue isn’t the comic, it’s you.

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, I guess I’m a weirdo if I don’t find the theme “misleading people for my own benefit” to be funny either.

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    • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I cried when the clown beckoned for the student clown to come closer, expertly keeping the pie hidden behind his back. I tore my clothes and threw ash over my head when the student clown crafted a second pie unbeknownst to the head clown. Woe humanity, will this cycle of violence never end?

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    • frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I feel it’s funny precisely because of how it betrays your expectations with the setup. If it happened to you, outside of the comic, it’d leave a sour taste but probably laughing a bit in a ‘did that just happen?’ kind of way.

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    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That isn’t the part that’s supposed to be funny, though. The joke is fundamentally about the linguistic ambiguity of “would you like to dance” typically implying “with me”. It’s something most people take for granted. So like, presented in a standup format the joke would be something like:

      “Have you ever noticed that if someone asks you if you’d like to dance… They’re not saying anything about dancing together? (Audience chuckles)”

      You could even structure the joke in such a way that it doesn’t involve someone being a jerk, maybe you’d find that more palatable. E.g:

      “So anyways, one time at the club this gorgeous lady asks me if I’d like to dance. And I’m thinking, well, sure I guess. So I went up to the floor and started… (Comedian dances ridiculously, audience laughs). And when I look back at her she looks at me like I just killed her dog or something! (Audience in shambles) and that’s when I realized… Oh! You meant like… (Comedian points back and forth between himself and audience)…together? Well why didn’t you just say so?! (Audience collectively dies from laughter)”

      If you couldn’t tell I don’t really like standup, lol. But the point is that the joke isn’t about misleading someone or being a jerk. Its fundamentally a language joke.

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    • jafra@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks. I came to the fediverse hoping to find a less toxic environment and was already thinking i made an error. Yeah, having fun at other peoples expense isn’t very funny.

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Look in a mirror.

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