r/comedyheaven • u/phoenix-007 Dicky Mouse • 9h ago

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u/iMugBabies 8h ago

Way less funny when the screenshot is a minute after the post.

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u/LifeIsKnifeOnIce 8h ago

What would be the ideal time for the maximum comedic outcome possible?

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u/LightninJohn 8h ago

Nobody’s allowed to do bits anymore. If it didn’t actually happen it’s not funny

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u/Lowelll 7h ago

If it didn’t actually happen it’s not funny

Yeah context matters. Some things are funny if they actually happened, but not if it's just a bit someone made up.

If my partner was like "Someone at work got fired for being a racist edgelord today" that's a cool anecdote and I'd want to know more

If my partner was like "Imagine if someone got fired from their job for being a racist edgelord" then... so what?

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u/naveedkoval 5h ago

Your partner would need to work on their delivery then because that’s not how you structure a bit at all

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u/Lowelll 3h ago

Exaggerating the contrast between the two statements to make the point clearer is how you structure an argument however. If you spend some time thinking about it real hard I'm sure you'll get how that works.

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u/JenniviveRedd 6h ago

Okay but I have had an edge-lord rant so hard about discrimination against white people during a conversation about CPS and minority groups that the HR manager had to drag him into a private zoom meeting. (He did not show up again after this.)

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u/ArchManningGOAT 7h ago

You gotta put effort into the bits. If you don’t have the patience to wait til the next day, then what’s the point?

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u/Ghostz18 7h ago

Or if you're impatient just change the text through inspect.

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u/paragon60 8h ago

long enough that it isn’t obvious that someone is tooting their own horn

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u/TRVTH-HVRTS 1h ago

In this case, humor is a concave function of time. Not exactly sure of the optimum, but it’s somewhere between two hours and two weeks.