Douglas Adams said he permanently got turned off standup comedy by the "Why don't they make the plane out of black boxes" joke
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That he got pissed the more he thought abt how often a comedic POV is constructed out of laziness and ignorance, refusing to think abt shit
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You know basic shit like "The indestructible black box is very dense and a plane made out of the same stuff would be too heavy"
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I don't wanna say that kind of lazy snark is some kind of social crisis but it is very annoying to be around
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I remember Gilbert Gottfried of all ppl owned Jerry Seinfeld's whole "I just don't get it" shtick pretty hard
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"I don't understand buses. People pay to get on them, then ten minutes later they get off again! What's the point?"
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So I mean it's not like Cinemasins made up this annoying genre of annoying joke they're just a high-density vein of it
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It's mostly jokes in the same vein as "Why is there Braille on drive-through ATMs ha ha ha"
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With each one answerable by some variant on "Keypads are mass produced not artisanally crafted Mr Funnyman"
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RESERVOIR DOGS, SIN #47: "Wait, didn't that guy just get shot by the other guy? How is he alive again and back in his apartment"
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this is if "my mom watches the middle third of the movie" had a youtube
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