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> lowest form of humour, including a close friend's mother

Now that is some excellent wordplay, whether or not intentional :)



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Excellent wordplay

The wordplay in this article is absolute genius

> ... and retained in its last sentence.

That's called a punchline.


It's a very nuanced form of humor.

>eschewing jargon

This is humorous


A parenthetical '(Humor)' might be warranted.

> Looking back, I think this idea was somehow rooted in the idea that jokes have delivery and that if you use that delivery (rythmn, emphasis, body language) maybe you could say anything and be funny.

This is “Friends” summed up. We are only laughing because they tell something like it was funny, and the canned laughter tells our brain to laugh.


Humour, with a 'u'.

10/10 on wordplay

> John Mulaney had a great one about Bill Clinton remembering his mother's name decades after meeting her once in college.

I just want you to know it took me several minutes to parse this correctly.


>[citation needed]

Hilarious...


What's funny about his use of the word?

> Funny

Can you extrapolate on what you mean by this?


> It would sound funny

It could be made to sound _hilarious_! :-)


The sentence was constructed in a facility where humour is processed.

FTA: "He loved puns, palindromes, limericks and wordplays."

When my friend was shooting part of Dirty Pictures, he texted me to say "I just exchanged dirty limericks with Shulgin!"


It's intended as endearing self-deprecating humour.

> It's like the Monkey's Paw from the Simpsons

This is really, really funny in the context of age and perspective. But not in the way you meant.


> Haha! Brilliant.

Real "Haha" or faked?

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