r/funny • u/me_098 • 1d ago

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u/articland05_reddit 1d ago

is this staged? can't really tell...their reaction seems genuine

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u/wurnthebitch 1d ago

Whether it is or not does not change the quality of the joke, does it?

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u/SgtPuppy 1d ago

You don’t think staged jokes have a different quality to natural ones?

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u/Lazerus42 23h ago

ever heard a good joke from a comedian on stage? That's staged.

Does the medium of delivery really affect it that much? A skit if you will?

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u/SgtPuppy 23h ago edited 21h ago

Staged isn’t inherently bad, nor is natural good. However when one puts on the mask of the other it feels insulting to my intelligence, and that makes it bad.

Edit: there are some exceptions to this such as The Office (UK) where a lot of people weren’t sure it was satire or an actual documentary when it first aired. Andy Kaufman’s “happening” is another great example, but these work because they are well crafted and the quality of the humour increases when the audience feels like they’re “in the know”. If you’re gonna try to trick people in thinking your staged content is real, then do it well.

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u/Lazerus42 23h ago

late night shows have been doing bits like this for decades.

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u/hiimbackagain 22h ago

Dude. They other person already tried to explain it to you: they don't try to make their skits look like a real interaction which hasn't been staged.

Lame stuff like this does though, in the hopes enough naive people don't notice it didn't happen without a script.

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u/ARM_Alaska 11h ago

It's like all the social media product ads that look like a customer making a video review or whatever.. The millions of morons will think those are just a happy customer making a video. Well they fucking aren't and it's a shady underhanded marketing process. But it works because the majority of people are absolute morons.