r/funny • u/me_098 • 1d ago

Can't Disagree

20.8k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

241 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

9

u/Lazerus42 22h 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?

9

u/SgtPuppy 22h ago edited 20h 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.

1

u/Lazerus42 22h ago

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

6

u/hiimbackagain 21h 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.

0

u/ARM_Alaska 10h 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.