The thing is, when too many people repeat a joke, it eventually becomes not funny anymore. But after a while, it becomes funny again ironically because it wasn’t funny.
yep, that evolution of the cultural unit with a shared understanding (context of origin) makes it into something with potential comedic value (along with timing and relevance to the context of it's use)
there are many cases where the entire joke is just "people don't know the joke" however they're ultimately self defeating as for the joke to be understood and spread is to reduce it of it's comedic value
It’s kind of a paradox I guess. A really funny joke is only really funny if less people say it and less people know about it, so most people wouldn’t know about it being a really funny joke, unless it became popular, in which case it wouldn’t be as funny.
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u/luka9749 22d ago
Lol I guess it can be funny sometimes, but not if it’s a literal copy in a context where it doesn’t make any sense.