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.

posted by Ace at 07:20 PM

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