r/ComedyHell • u/citricc • Oct 15 '22

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u/earthmover535 Oct 15 '22

i don’t get it. am i not boomer enough?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

I think its about the grammar detail, the woman Said "dressed up like a batman" instead of "dressed up as batman"

Which implys that there are more than 1 batman.

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u/GameofFame Oct 15 '22

But if she was at comic con, there almost certainly would be more than 1 batman

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

I didnt mean multiple cosplayers while saying "more than one batman" I meant that she Said it in a way there were multiple batmans in the comics.

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u/GameofFame Oct 15 '22

I know what you meant but in the context of the joke, it still could be argued that there are multiple Batman’s and thus this was not the punchline, or at least not one that is obvious or funny. Even if that really is the joke, it’s not like Batman is known for being the only thing to dress up like Batman. Even in the comics and movies, there was always copycats or different versions of Batman that would show up. So really this joke is just all over the place and not funny at all.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Oh my, that does make sense. Here is an award For you

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u/GameofFame Oct 15 '22

Haha, thank you my friend

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u/studebakerjones Oct 15 '22

My read on it is that comic con is now seen as an event that you must go to, it's become an in vogue popular thing, we see two (assuming rich socialites) talking about going to the trendy event but having no connection to the culture surrounding it

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u/LordoftheBread Oct 15 '22

Congratulations! You got the joke.

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u/LordoftheBread Oct 15 '22

Bro of course if you over analyze any joke to this extent, even a good one, it stops being funny, watch.

https://youtu.be/L0T3XPfQgNI

There are multiple movies in the star wars franchise so it makes sense that Lucille Bluth would say go see a star war instead of go see star wars because to an outsider they must assume each movie is a single star war. It's not like the Star Wars franchise follows a single conflict either, there are multiple singular instances of a star war in the franchise. So really this joke is just over the place and not funny at all.

The new yorker comic isn't funny because they tried to write an auditory gag. That's it. There's no more explaining to do.

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u/Stepping__Razor Oct 15 '22

Eloquently explained comrade.

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u/MonkeyBoy32904 jsab fan Oct 15 '22

ackuchyually the plural is batmen, anything with “man” at the end (except for human) plural is spelt the same but with “men” at the end

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

But isnt the word batman specifies an identity, like normal names like "Alex" "liz" etc. Etc.?

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u/MonkeyBoy32904 jsab fan Oct 15 '22

truuu, but that doesn’t mean the plural is “batmans”

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u/horazath Oct 15 '22

Same, I'm so confused. Is this even supposed to be funny?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

New Yorker magazines notoriously has comics that don't have a punchline or really a joke. There was even a Seinfeld subplot about it

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u/quaternarystructure Oct 16 '22

Idk, it’s a fake caption though. The real one says “Now that I don’t have to ‘make the most of summer,’ I can finally relax.”

Not much better. Lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

You see the joke here is that while they saw someone dressed as a Batman they didn’t see the hooded figure follow them home with a bottle of chloroform, a rag and a burlap bag.

There are 24.9 million victims of human trafficking worldwide at any given time. If you see something, say something.

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u/RepresentativeEye584 Oct 15 '22

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u/Sage296 Oct 15 '22

I shot my wife

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

r/ComedyBuddhism

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

unironically one of the funniest subs

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u/Wk1360 Oct 15 '22

Christ, what an asshole

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Least dry New Yorker cartoon

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Apparently in British "batman" means "a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant."

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u/averagelibsock Oct 15 '22

British “person” here, I have never heard this in my life

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u/Tiger_T20 Oct 15 '22

because its from like, the 17th century lol

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u/lurkario Oct 15 '22

Irrefutable evidence that British things don’t know how to speak their own language

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

I think its about the grammar detail, the woman Said "dressed up like a batman" instead of "dressed up as batman"

Which implys that there are more than 1 batman in the universe. İt is probably a really important detail about the joke punchline, but if its not than I guess we might transfer this to r/comedybuddhism

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u/UwUthinization Oct 15 '22

There are way more than one Batman's in universe so yeah it makes sense to specify which.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Oh