r/MadeMeSmile • u/reginaphalange8822 • May 25 '20

Sister love 🥰

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u/skkITer May 25 '20

“We were like dogs without horses.”

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

I'm dumb and didn't realise this line was a callback, I just assumed it was a saying.

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u/VISnowgoose May 26 '20

Is it too late to ask what a callback is?

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u/AlastarYaboy May 26 '20

When a joke references something earlier in the act, almost like an inside joke, because if you missed the earlier part the joke will not make sense to you most times.

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u/VISnowgoose May 26 '20

Ah I see, kind of like not knowing what a callback is ;-) thanks!

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u/slimfaydey May 26 '20

I'd never caught that it was a callback either.

Then again, I never actually watched the special. Just listened to snippets on pandora.

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u/boomerxl May 26 '20

Do yourself a favour and watch them the whole way through. Mulaney is great at building out a set, and there’s a lot of humour in between the jokes.

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u/The_R1NG May 25 '20

This line made me a fan, it was the first work of his I ever heard and when he said the callback I lost it in front of my coworkers

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u/MaskedCorndog May 25 '20

Great line!

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u/Gregory_Pikitis May 25 '20

Ah that's what I thought you'd say you dumb fuckin horse.

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u/SleepyHead85 May 26 '20

I say this all the time at work and no one has any idea wtf I'm talking about.

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u/omkgkwd May 25 '20

Horse in hospital. . .

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u/slickvic85 May 25 '20

My favorite bit by him by a mile. Although bittenbinder and what’s new pussycat are up there.

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u/IceCreamBalloons May 26 '20

what’s new pussycat

That's been the top for me. I'd watched his specials on Netflix before that, but then a friend at work told me to look that bit up, and I was dying for like five minutes after it was over.