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You're telling me the guy who thought this was hilarious, isn't funny?
Yeah, that tracks.
Edit: For anyone OOTL he walked into Twitter HQ with a sink and tweeted "Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!"
Keep in mind this is the absolute funniest he has ever been. A pun with a punchline and no setup.
The best he has ever done is get 50% of the way to a mildly funny joke. With his trademark inability to read the room on top !
(and don’t tell me that’s because he’s autistic. I’m autistic, we’re disadvantaged in this domain but we can learn to do it all the same. He either doesn’t know or doesn’t care, most likely the latter.)
I'm autistic, which results in me deconstructing and analysing jokes instead of laughing (often to the displeasure of the people who think I didn't find their joke funny – I promise, if I'm taking the time to disassemble your joke that means I found it funny and want to understand why).
The flipside is that I occasionally crack out carefully engineered bangers, because I understand the importance of a setup, building expectations and putting the brain on one track of thought, then capping it off with the "derailing" of those expectations. The shorter you can get it, the less time the brain has to get off track on its own, diminishing that derailing effect.
Of course, getting the inspiration and figuring out a way to put that into practice is it's own unpredictable beast, and some jokes just fall flat despite my effort. Sometimes I misread the room or the audience too. I'm not a particularly talented comedian.
But at least I'm not a setup without a punchline.
Fellow autist here,, here's my funniest Elon moment:
The cybertruck reveal, softball pitch into the window.
Musk audibly gasps and says 'O-oh myfuckinggod.'
Comedy gold.
That moment, right there, that was the high water mark.
Then, the window cracks, and shortly afterward, his entire general public facade and reputation begin to crack and shattet as well.
I do appreciate a visual metaphor.
I don't know.
He did just recently get bullied off a livestream because he bought an account, claimed to be a world class PoE 2 player, and then died to a tutorial boss.
All that money and still no respect lmao
I've never seen anybody put that much effort into a pun.
Puns are never very funny. The best you can normally hope for is a small chuckle. And yet he went with a full, big, heavy prop for a tired pun.
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.
Someone posted a scene from Galaxy quest where the cast is experiencing turbulence.
Everyone except Sam Rockwell. He is at a muuuch lower intensity level than the whole cast. Someone points it out.
Someone dunks on the layup and says, "I guess Sam doesn't rock well."
Also made me wonder if Sam did it on purpose. To set up a pun with his name.
Never go full Carrot Top.
Even Carrot Top knew that prop comedy only works if you have a lot of small, light props that you go through quickly. Walking around with a heavy sink might get you as jacked as Carrot Top, but you're not going to get the laughs.
True. Say what you will about prop comedy but Carrot Top didn't get famous because he was bad at it.
I'm still amazed he became a Vegas resident comic. Like, he wasn't that unfunny but he was never anybody's favorite comic.
I once saw some clip of a carrot top show and he did admittedly make me laugh. I do like puns though
Yeah I laughed when I first saw him too. I didn't know we were supposed to dislike prop comedy at the time. I don't hate the guy, I wish him continued success.
I remember seeing him for the first time a couple decades after having seen him during his '80s heyday. I was laughing my ass off at these hilarious Incredible Hulk fake arms he was wearing - and then I gradually started realizing that those were his real arms.
Hey, I like puns! I think this one could have been very funny if the thing we were letting sink in was harmless, and not his acquisition of the world's largest microblogging platform for the purpose of controlling public discourse.
Some people, a very very very very small subsection of the populace, have a talent for puns. The problem is, they make it look easy, and that makes EVERYONE think they can do it...
It's not even a thing he thought of spontaneously. I remember around that time or a half year i. Advance a lot of his tweets were: contained let that sink in. He just couldn't wait
The article's hero image is him wearing a cheese shaped hat. I'm afraid to even ask the context behind that one...
Cheese for brains, especially with the holes
They were in Wisconsin and he was pandering to the locals by wearing a cheese hat and giving away millions of dollars to bribe voters. It didn't work - the candidate he was supporting lost.
Captain soft hands almost dropped that thing. It’s hilarious how weak he is for such an alpha
What is he doing there?
He's on a bender
Carrying a sink into Twitter headquarters after he bought it. I honestly don’t even understand the joke. I assume he’s saying he was going to cut everything including the kitchen sink, or let this sink in, but neither is very funny.
The joke was "I just bought twitter, let that sink in."
But it wasn't even his joke, people on then-twitter were repeatedly sending that joke to him
He’s just the worst.
Wasn't he carrying it out? Like after he fired a bunch of people so he could make the joke: "Throwing everything out, even the kitchen sink."
That's how I remember it. I don't really want to look it up since I am already sick of knowing so much about this guy.
He walked in with it.
I'll take your word on it.
The fact that we are having to discuss the brain dead mechanics to even understand his "joke" tells you how fucking stupid and unfunny he is, jokes have a certain flow of logic even "lol so random" jokes function on subvertting ones expectations and breaking the logical followup.
Now story time, when I was 3 or 4 I was trying to figure out how jokes worked because I am just that autistic. As a result of this I was given the overly simple answer of set up and punchline, this resulted in me creating the oh so glorious "What's a ponytail in a dress? A joke" which only makes sense to my younger self. That is still funnier than any joke Musk has ever made.
Also on a vaguely related note when I was trying to figure out slapstick I apparently slammed a metal folding chair into my uncle's back and then poured a bottle of water onto his face, I do not remember this unlike the verbal "joke" all the male boomers that were present at said event remember it though. The wonders of alcohol and heatstroke, which I was suffering from the effects of cause I thought a bottle of hard cider was apple juice.
Oh, wow, that's really not funny.
If it was funny, would space Karen have done it?
I'm a simple person. Let this sink in would be a good enough dad joke for me.
I mean that's kind of funny though
Okay Elon.
No I'm actually funny
I’m sure you believe that dear. Now shoo.
Why so mean?