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I've never seen anybody put that much effort into a pun.
Puns are never very funny. The best you can normally hope for is a small chuckle. And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
Someone posted a scene from Galaxy quest where the cast is experiencing turbulence.
Everyone except Sam Rockwell. He is at a muuuch lower intensity level than the whole cast. Someone points it out.
Someone dunks on the layup and says, "I guess Sam doesn't rock well."
Also made me wonder if Sam did it on purpose. To set up a pun with his name.
Never go full Carrot Top.
Even Carrot Top knew that prop comedy only works if you have a lot of small, light props that you go through quickly. Walking around with a heavy sink might get you as jacked as Carrot Top, but you're not going to get the laughs.
True. Say what you will about prop comedy but Carrot Top didn't get famous because he was bad at it.
I'm still amazed he became a Vegas resident comic. Like, he wasn't that unfunny but he was never anybody's favorite comic.
I once saw some clip of a carrot top show and he did admittedly make me laugh. I do like puns though
Yeah I laughed when I first saw him too. I didn't know we were supposed to dislike prop comedy at the time. I don't hate the guy, I wish him continued success.
I remember seeing him for the first time a couple decades after having seen him during his '80s heyday. I was laughing my ass off at these hilarious Incredible Hulk fake arms he was wearing - and then I gradually started realizing that those were his real arms.
Hey, I like puns! I think this one could have been very funny if the thing we were letting sink in was harmless, and not his acquisition of the world's largest microblogging platform for the purpose of controlling public discourse.
Some people, a very very very very small subsection of the populace, have a talent for puns. The problem is, they make it look easy, and that makes EVERYONE think they can do it...
It's not even a thing he thought of spontaneously. I remember around that time or a half year i. Advance a lot of his tweets were: contained let that sink in. He just couldn't wait