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July 27, 2014
The New Yorker Publishes What Looks Like an Original Form of Joke
A guy named Simon Rich tells a joke (a long one) that seems sorta original in form.
I think it's probably inspired by the age-old anti-joke (where you start with a jokey premise, but the punchline is just something normal and unfunny: A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Preacher walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't normally get a Rabbi, a Priest, and a Preacher in here." The Rabbi says, "We're an interfaith committee for the prevention of alcoholism." The bartender nods, with a quiet shame.) and an absurd sequence in the recent Paul Rudd/Amy Poehler romcom parody They Came Together, also set in a bar.*
But it's kinda original. I don't think many people have taken an anti-joke this far before, at least.
Eh, give it a read, see what you think. It'll take ya five minutes.
Thanks to @comradearthur.
* Oh, it's also a Brick Joke.
Hm. I guess it's not really that original (in basic format) after all.