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Yeah, actually a fundamental rule of comedy: always get the audience on your side. If they don't know you, aren't rooting for you, or think you're on the "wrong side", they will misinterpret your joke as a real insult. Comedians directly insult people all the time and get laughs, but only because the audience believes they're on the same side as the comedian.


True, but that's assuming my audience is the people I'm replying to!


Did nobody read the entire copypasta? What comedian jokes using death threats?


To quote Achmed, the dead terrorist: "Silence, I kill you!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKlehf_4rRg

It's not only a death threat, it appears to be said by a committed terrorist. ;)

On a more serious note: humor, satire and sarcasm are typically super hard to categorize, especially at scale. It's an unsolved problem.


I didn’t expect such a constructive reply, thanks!




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