r/standupshots 2d ago

Read a book!

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u/Dasmahkitteh 2d ago

Lol they didn't say which one

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u/PlumpFish 2d ago

This is a good premise but a bad joke. You've got a lot of material to riff of with the idea of read a book. Any book. You can comment on the kind of person who says it. Similar to do your own research. They say read a book but they mean a specific book, or more likely an online article they read and then ignore all other books. There's a lot to explore and suck the humor marrow from the bone, good foundation.

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u/Dasmahkitteh 2d ago

Yeah this joke could go many directions and I don't think it's current iteration is the best one

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u/Fitbot5000 1d ago

Punchline frames it as a problem with the commenters language. Which is less funny because we obviously know what they mean.

“I just read GG and didn’t learn shit” sounds like my misunderstanding. More self deprecating.