I think the joke I came up with is inoffensive enough (provided you're not Vladimir Putin), but I figured I could use a sanity check by more socially astute people before posting it anywhere else.
Q. Why does Putin support jailing LGBT people?
A. Because he secretly participates in drag queen contests in Moscow's gay bars but he always comes in last place. One day Putin thinks "Aha! If I have all the gays jailed then I will have no competition in the contests! Drag queen of the year here I come!"
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Joke sanity check
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Re: Joke sanity check
Eh, it'll probably offend some people, but it's tame compared to what South Park and Family Guy put in a typical episode. My only criticism would be that the punch line is too wordy and cumbersome.
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Re: Joke sanity check
On a scale of 1 to 10, it's lamer than a horse with 3 broken legs.
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Re: Joke sanity check
Well I did think of this when I was half-asleep so... probably.
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Re: Joke sanity check
So it still has a leg to stand on?
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Re: Joke sanity check
Yes, but it's not going anywhere, and will soon be euthanized to end the suffering.
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I like Celine Dion myself. Her ballads alone....they make me go all teary-eyed and shit.
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Re: Joke sanity check
Still, one has to wonder how bad Putin must be to get last place at EVERY gay bar in a major city...
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Re: Joke sanity check
He likes going around bare-chested, so...
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Re: Joke sanity check
I think the better joke would be:
Why did Putin start jailing the gays in Russia?
Because he once wrestled the wrong kind of bear.
Why did Putin start jailing the gays in Russia?
Because he once wrestled the wrong kind of bear.
Re: Joke sanity check
I think just as a general rule if your punchline is 6-7 times longer than your setup, your joke needs work.
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Re: Joke sanity check
Yeah. The punchline's too clunky.
Jub beat me to improving it though.
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Re: Joke sanity check
Or maybe this as a punchline?
A. As Putin said: "drag queen of the year, here I come!"
Maybe that changes the three broken legs to three merely paralyzed legs?
A. As Putin said: "drag queen of the year, here I come!"
Maybe that changes the three broken legs to three merely paralyzed legs?
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Re: Joke sanity check
No.SolarpunkFan wrote: ↑2019-04-04 08:39am Or maybe this as a punchline?
A. As Putin said: "drag queen of the year, here I come!"
Maybe that changes the three broken legs to three merely paralyzed legs?
Jub's version combines something that is "Putinesque" behavior "guy wrestles a bear" with the "some gay people are called bears" to create a plausible narrative.
Yours tries to establish that Putin is an avid cross dresser/drag queen, which is not related to anything people would readily attribute to him.
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Re: Joke sanity check
It's like saying
Why is Trumps' golf swing exceptionally stable? - Retractable bone spurs.
The same would not work for "Why is Trump a great sprinter?" - because the assumption that Trump moves faster than a waddle is disrupting the cognitive acceptance of your joke. People would be so preoccupied by the impossible prerequisite that the joke falls flat.
Why is Trumps' golf swing exceptionally stable? - Retractable bone spurs.
The same would not work for "Why is Trump a great sprinter?" - because the assumption that Trump moves faster than a waddle is disrupting the cognitive acceptance of your joke. People would be so preoccupied by the impossible prerequisite that the joke falls flat.
A minute's thought suggests that the very idea of this is stupid. A more detailed examination raises the possibility that it might be an answer to the question "how could the Germans win the war after the US gets involved?" - Captain Seafort, in a thread proposing a 1942 'D-Day' in Quiberon Bay
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Re: Joke sanity check
If you really wanted to make a joke about Putin as a drag queen you could go with:
Why is Putin so obsessed with staying in power? Because he's always wanted to be a queen.
Even that's a pretty so-so joke that needs context to work. Using drag queen is also too long a term for a good punchline unless you can relate it back to the setup better.
As an - offensive - example you could go with:
What do you call a cross-dresser being towed behind a truck? A drag queen.
That joke works because it plays off of the word drag though it's a shitty joke for being bigoted as hell and thus still isn't funny.
Why is Putin so obsessed with staying in power? Because he's always wanted to be a queen.
Even that's a pretty so-so joke that needs context to work. Using drag queen is also too long a term for a good punchline unless you can relate it back to the setup better.
As an - offensive - example you could go with:
What do you call a cross-dresser being towed behind a truck? A drag queen.
That joke works because it plays off of the word drag though it's a shitty joke for being bigoted as hell and thus still isn't funny.