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I'm not high enough to understand this. Can someone ELI5 this for me please?
It seems absolutely unfunny to me, and I'm a big Monty Python fan.
Edit: Just to prevent snarky replies, I understand what the humor is supposed to be, a word play, but it just seems so incredibly unfunny, and that's coming from someone who says dad jokes all the time.
More power to you if you find it funny, truly, but what I'm asking for is somebody to explain where the humor is in the word play.
Perhaps it's a regional cultural type of humor?
Well the dodos seem to think that "the time" is a relic of some sort that one can possess. But you understood that.
I don't think there's anything I can explain that will make it funny for you. I suppose it's a matter of taste.
Do you know offhand what culture this joke was created for?
Fair enough.
The creator is a big fan of absurdism from North America, and he does lots of various creative projects. Other than that I couldn't say.
https://wondermark.com/
Ty.
https://wondermark.com/c/1543/
This is funny!
Exactly this. I enjoyed it, but I was high enough. If I was sober I probably would’ve thought it was ok.
Clearly you don't have the time
Or the drugs.
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=vRcfgKbF3RY
Are you a fan of who’s on first?
I'm more of a fan of what's on second.
On a more serious note, the context of the environment the wordplay joke is being done at, and how it's expressed/delivered, is what makes the difference in elevating the level of humor.
That it's not just the literal words themselves, but how they're said, and where, that makes a wordplay joke successful or not.