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actually I just understood what's wrong with bill maher.
all his sentences are scripted. But they're scripted in such a way that they seem funny and poetic when you're WRITING them, but when you're LISTENING to them they're so long and unnecessarily complex that you can't even process the meaning and humor by the time the sentence is over.
the sentences are so long, the analogies so random, that they can ONLY have any entertainment value after thinking/studying them. The audience doesn't have the time to do that--the writers do, and they've deluded themselves into thinking these lines are funny when you haven't spent 15 minutes poring over them.
Basically it's like applying Family Guy randomness to an SAT writing exercise, and expecting the audience to get all the meaning in a 2 second window
That's a huge gripe I have with these people but I'm gonna be enlightened centrist here and say that a statement that your audience agrees with told in a context you would expect jokes isn't in itself a fucking joke. Was/were aren't fucking pronouns and being pro trans right doesn't mean the joke isn't poorly thought through and shouldn't be an excuse. Be funny or stop trying to do jokes.
actually I just understood what's wrong with bill maher.
all his sentences are scripted. But they're scripted in such a way that they seem funny and poetic when you're WRITING them, but when you're LISTENING to them they're so long and unnecessarily complex that you can't even process the meaning and humor by the time the sentence is over.
the sentences are so long, the analogies so random, that they can ONLY have any entertainment value after thinking/studying them. The audience doesn't have the time to do that--the writers do, and they've deluded themselves into thinking these lines are funny when you haven't spent 15 minutes poring over them.
Basically it's like applying Family Guy randomness to an SAT writing exercise, and expecting the audience to get all the meaning in a 2 second window
That's a huge gripe I have with these people but I'm gonna be enlightened centrist here and say that a statement that your audience agrees with told in a context you would expect jokes isn't in itself a fucking joke. Was/were aren't fucking pronouns and being pro trans right doesn't mean the joke isn't poorly thought through and shouldn't be an excuse. Be funny or stop trying to do jokes.