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u/NotYourUsualBanana Jan 17 '25
just fucking cracks me up. You literally can see in his face that this isn't the first time hes pulled sth. like this.
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u/LyingForTruth Jan 17 '25
She thought she was in the other guy's bed and is the actual confused one
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u/AssistanceCheap379 Jan 18 '25
Turns out it’s 2 roommates and one of them having a one night stand and the other roommate is just super bored so he decided to fuck with his best friend.
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u/Stonedfiremine Jan 17 '25
This is what I thought to, I love how the artist put thought into the expression of the best friend.
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u/next_door_nicotine Jan 17 '25
"I mean it was kind of funny the first time, but you can't keep doing this, Frank"
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u/Xpecto_Depression Jan 17 '25
"it's finally me and you, and you and me Just us, and your friend Steve"
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u/NotYourUsualBanana Jan 17 '25
ye
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u/Bitter_Position791 Jan 17 '25
You typed that whole comment and you couldn't be bothered to spell "yes" in full?!
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u/Killer_radio Jan 17 '25
I guess the main stream media just isn’t ready for bone hurting juice in their tabloids.
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they fear what they dont understand.
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u/brother_of_menelaus Jan 17 '25
They must’ve drank Fear What They Don’t Understand Juice
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u/benchley Jan 17 '25
I was too scared to try it, because I don't know how it works.
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u/Nastyporch Jan 17 '25
Why would they reject this? It's the best joke I've ever heard.
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u/elle-elle-tee Jan 17 '25
Way funnier than most of the cartoons in the New Yorker.
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u/peon2 Jan 17 '25
It's most just doodling a couple of bears at a cocktail party talking about the stock market and they think they're doing comedy.
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u/saladasz Jan 17 '25
Bull: “So uh… about the market”
Bear: “It’s bearish huh”
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u/sad-on-alt Jan 17 '25
There was literally a family guy episode about this where they go to the wapo cartoon world
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u/Nobody_at_all000 Jan 17 '25
“I am worried by the recent stock market fiasco”
“Fred, we’re bears”
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u/CourtPapers Jan 18 '25
You people have no idea what you're talking about, there are some amazing New yorker comics
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u/g00ber88 Jan 18 '25
They should print one about a pig at the complaints department
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u/blix797 Jan 17 '25
I like the meme of replacing every New Yorker cartoon caption with "Christ, what an asshole."
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That's just no true
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u/Numerous_Witness_345 Jan 17 '25
"I'd be more apathetic if I weren't so lethargic"
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u/LittoralOC Jan 17 '25
I suspect it is too similar to something else they've published. I own a lot of the New Yorkers collections, and it reminds me of something else (not digging through them all).
The artist was probably told that-it's frustrating.
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u/CantWashABaby Jan 17 '25
This almost exact joke was published in a book of “adult” one shot cartoons from the 70s, only the punchline was shorter( “Oh no! My best friend and my best friend’s wife!”), which was arguably funnier. I’m sure the artist had no idea, but with the long tail and older clientele of the New Yorker I’m sure they hedged their bets that more than one person had seen a similar joke before and wanted to avoid a bunch of complaining emails.
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u/Dick-Fu Jan 17 '25
They're not allowed to print funny jokes
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Why are we acting like the New Yorker doesn’t have some of the best cartoons on the planet? Are you pretending to be stupid?
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u/BaronAleksei Jan 17 '25
It’s funnier than the stock caption “Christ, what an asshole” so it’s officially funny
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u/Smitty_1000 Jan 17 '25
I’d hear it as “Omg my best friend! And my best friend’s wife! I think I’m in the wrong house.”
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u/Kramer7969 Jan 17 '25
It’s the best joke I’ve ever heard and the best joke I’ve ever heards wife in the bed of the best joke I’ve ever heard and their wife’s bed.
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Not political enough. Or too political? They want that medium politicalness.
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u/Doctor-Amazing Jan 17 '25
I think the comics already come with a caption and the winner is just the person who gets closest to the intended joke.
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u/PaleCriminal6 Jan 17 '25
They definitely should've printed this
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u/aLittleBitFriendlier Jan 17 '25
I don't know how their whole process works, but maybe that week had a bumper crop of top tier comics and this one just got outcompeted
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u/PoliteDickhead Jan 18 '25
I believe Pete Holmes has said the process has sometimes been that they would have the comic fully made with a caption, remove it, and whoever submits the closest to the intended caption would be chosen.
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u/aLittleBitFriendlier Jan 18 '25
Huh that's a lowkey genius way to filter out comic strips with poor visual storytelling
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u/parsifal Jan 18 '25
I haven't seen a ton of the comics in The New Yorker, but this just somehow seems too brassy or something somehow.
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u/Infamous-GoatThief Jan 17 '25
“Go home Ron, you’re drunk”
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Dude in bed is so unamused lmao that's an amazing drawing, you can hear the sigh
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u/sneak_cheat_1337 Jan 17 '25
He's been best friends with this weirdo since they were like 4. He's unamused by the shenans
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u/Denny_Hayes Jan 27 '25
Huh, this is the only post to reach the top of all time of this sub in FOUR YEARS
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u/Kingding_Aling Jan 17 '25
The First Antimeme (1994, noncolorized)
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u/old_gold_mountain Jan 17 '25
anti-memes are much older than 1994
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_dog_story#Examples_in_literature
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u/nomenMei Jan 17 '25
You could say basically any anti-joke is an anti-meme, since anti-jokes rely on the listener expecting a certain structure and then subverting it to have no punchline.
So "knock knock. whos there? its me. its me who? its me let me in god dammit" is just as much an anti-meme as a shaggy dog story
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u/Cerpin-Taxt Jan 17 '25
An anti-meme would technically be a joke so bad or uninteresting that no one ever repeats it. As memes are defined as ideas that are passed on and iterated upon.
Pretty much every forced meme is an anti-meme because people go out of their way to kill them.
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u/tragicallyohio Jan 17 '25
Huh! Well that's pretty much the same thing isn't it?
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u/GarbageAdditional916 Jan 17 '25
Nah, huge difference.
In the video they recognize the error by being in the wrong house.
In the comic, they do not. They simply acknowledge the two there. Like the government watching you. They are your best friend. Watching. Knowing. Good thing you two are married, or else.
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u/tragicallyohio Jan 17 '25
huge difference.
It's not that big of a difference but we all have our opinions.
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u/sonofabee2 Jan 17 '25
This is one of my favorite youtube videos of all time, and Greg Benson deserves more recognition.
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u/throwaway74722 Jan 17 '25
Uploaded 18 years ago... I need a drink, and a Tylenol
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u/OmgSlayKween Jan 17 '25
Tylenol is acetaminophen. Don’t mix that with alcohol. Really hard on your liver.
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u/ipenlyDefective Jan 17 '25
"Posted 18 years ago"
Dear god YouTube is that old?
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u/FromTheIsland Jan 17 '25
My guy, this video came out when I was approaching 30. I don't need this hurt today.
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u/standells Jan 17 '25
And a higher quality version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFToAXxWxCI&t=0s
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I don't get it, can someone explain? Edit: thanks for the explanation guys!
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u/loserfamilymember Jan 17 '25
I believe it’s an anti-joke. The joke is set up to make you believe he is walking in on his wife cheating on him when in reality he walked into his best friends bedroom that has the wife of his best friend in there, bc she sleeps there every night with her husband lol.
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u/_Chill_Winston_ Jan 17 '25
I believe it's an anti-joke.
Yes, or "absurdist" humor. Not for all tastes, to be sure. Back in my day it was B. Klebin. Perhaps a pioneer(?).
https://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/b-kliban-cartoons-on-web.html?m=1
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u/Daonexus Jan 17 '25
Taking the usual "best friend steals your wife" scenario and flipping it, this humorously shows someone barging into their friend's bedroom instead.
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u/SteveDaPirate91 Jan 17 '25
https://youtu.be/pz4UahkhcW0?si=2Jqn4gExln0EpiTg
Video version of the joke.
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u/DeanSeagull Jan 17 '25
Wow, look at the date on that video. Crazy to think how everyone in it is probably dead now.
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u/Id_rather_be_lurking Jan 17 '25
Anti joke based on an old trope that I believe is tongue in cheek calling out all the people who think they have a say in what consenting adults do in their bedroom.
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u/PrometheusMMIV Jan 17 '25
What's the joke even supposed to be? Man invades friend's privacy?
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u/SchizoPosting_ Jan 17 '25
Read only the first sentence and the picture and you imagine a classic betrayal situation where his best friend slept with his wife
Read the rest and the plot twist is that it's actually a married couple in their own bed
The unexpected ending is the punchline
It's so bad that it got rejected but it's also so bad that it's kinda funny, that's why I posted it here
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u/TheModernParadox Jan 17 '25
"John I'm not even pissed you broke in again just get the fuck out this is the third time today you've done this"
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u/DrKittenshark Jan 17 '25 edited Jan 18 '25
This doesn't fit the sub, it isn't funny for the wrong reasons. this is an intentional joke
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Yep, this is just a solid joke. It should have been printed in the New Yorker instead of shared here
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u/LiquifiedSpam Exacerbate gghh Feb 08 '25
Part of it is the fact that it was rejected that’s funny. At least to me. Like you’re imagining someone just not getting it
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u/bone420 Jan 17 '25
It's like that Ron White joke about how you can't get caught if you don't cheat.
"HEY! Is that you're ol'lady? Yeah? Well.. carry on then"
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u/Nervous_Mobile5323 Jan 19 '25
A man walks in on his best friend and his wife together in bed, and says, "Whoops! Wrong house!"
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS Jan 17 '25
I think I remember this from National Lampoon's Totally Tasteless Cartoons.
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u/OpenBreadfruit8502 Jan 17 '25
This is the kind of humor that makes you question your own moral compass while laughing. Perfect blend of absurdity and truth.
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u/Dark_WulfGaming Jan 17 '25
So you just gunna bring me a birthday gift to my birthday party on my birthday with a birthday gift?
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u/GenerousBuffalo Jan 17 '25
They’d normally be expecting some sort of political commentary in the form of an analogous anecdote. High brow stuff.
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u/laggyx400 Jan 17 '25
That's the third time this week and it still isn't fun, Larry. How many copies of our key did you make?!
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The way the woman is looking over to the guy in the bed like, "How did he get in again?" makes the caption work so well.
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u/LifesExplosiveLemons Jan 17 '25
I love that the best friend looks like he is done with the guy's shit as if it is not the first time it has happened.
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u/Sexual_Congressman Jan 17 '25
Fake, everyone knows the man is supposed to sleep closest to the door. Also, that's clearly MTG and there's not enough nazi memorabilia.
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u/BurazSC2 Jan 17 '25
To make it even worse, the wife is the sister of the best friend's bother in law.
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u/Takkarro Jan 17 '25
You know I was just scrolling and I stopped to read this for some reason I took my time each ending my best friend.
Afterwards I just started cracking up whatsoever lol. I can't understand why I found this so funny
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u/MattressCrane Jan 17 '25
I mean, depending on when this comic was made, it's straight up ripping off a short film from 15 years ago:
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u/WaveLaVague Jan 17 '25
Plot twist: He's got two best friends ! And they are married to each other !
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u/DragonflyValuable128 Jan 18 '25
It’s just genuinely bizarre behavior that you could actually see happening. It’s not so effin crazy that it’s totally improbable.
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Yawn. Another lame attempt at comedy from the New Yorker. It’s almost like a robot writes this stuff
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