Larry Miller's Hippo Joke
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Ok to anyone still not thinking this is funny: I guess my HUMBLE explanation (even though such explanations often ruin jokes), is that this description of the swamp-which is meant to bring the listener into a time so long ago, when "time" was not only NOT measured but probably not even thought about because there were no creatures doing so..... and that the one hippo realizes that tuesdays creep up on you sometimes.
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Ok to anyone still not thinking this is funny: I guess my HUMBLE explanation (even though such explanations often ruin jokes), is that this description of the swamp-which is meant to bring the listener into a time so long ago, when "time" was not only NOT measured but probably not even thought about because there were no creatures doing so..... and that the one hippo realizes his personal calendar is "off". He has hippo things to do and is frustrated with his week...I think its a great joke.
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Okay, I just saw Johnny Carson tell the same joke, only it was "Thursday." Slightly funnier. Maybe it's because Johnny knew how to tell a joke. But it wasn't THAT much funnier.
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What's sad is not that this joke needed explaining, but that, after the explanation, it was even further from being funny.
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@senfdazu so its true what they say about germans?
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Ha ha ha ha ! That cracked me up!
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I love the part in The Aristocrats where they explain how we've become accustomed to sitcom humor - setup, punchline, setup, punchline. That's why this post has only 15 likes.
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Even though you explain the joke to me I don't get it. I understand it's about misdirection but I guess I don't have a great sense of humor.
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Fucking hell, that's brilliant. Who wrote it?
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It saddens me that this needed explaining.
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I soooo love that joke!
Thanks for posting it!
gstyle67 3 years ago 4
The humor is in misdirection. The buildup is spending all this time describing this fantastic, detailed, exotic scene and then it's brought completely around by making the punchline something completely mundane. It's called a "shock laugh" because you don't expect the type of punchline you get, but you laugh anyway from the sudden change.
ctapps 2 years ago 2