Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
by beagle3 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:58AM
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Reminds me of “Coupling” - a brilliant British TV sitcom. It is incredibly funny.
The US version had the same text, with minor changes to account for e.g. the different way to call back to the last incoming call on a landline. The US version had reasonably good actors.
But … somehow, it was just not funny.
Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
by nkrisc on Saturday December 17, 2022 @11:23AM
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I think in this kind of thing the cultural context is important and provides necessary components of the humor that are critical to the jokes, but not part of the script. It’s why the American version of the Office couldn’t just be directly transplanted. It had to be re-rewritten for the American cultural context.
I think if you took the script for Peep Show, for example, and set it in the US with American actors it would probably be pretty bad.
Re:I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
by mewpmewp2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @03:08PM
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I think all jokes are explainable why they are funny to be honest. I find it odd when people say that explaining a joke removes the funny part. Sure, it can in some cases, but I think it's just a generic thing to say rather than what actually is the case. Sometimes a joke is so clever, that you don't get it at first, but then someone explains it and you appreciate how clever the joke was, which is still a positive feeling and in addition can make you laugh retroactively.
I think many comedians can tell you why a joke is funny. They know, many of them spend their entire career crafting jokes and refining them to be funny. It’s just not funny when they tell you why. Even so I think it still is more art than science.
A lot of what also makes a joke funny or not is the delivery and who’s telling it. I think a lot of Norm MacDonald’s long, rambling jokes, for instance, wouldn’t be funny at all if most other people told them (and some people will say they’re not funny even when he told them).