Some times one post is all you need. You magically conjured meaning from my words that was never there.
And no, comic book stores, like most retail places, have you pay once when done shopping. I suppose you could do the gag in such a situation - pulling out pre-made $1, $5, and $10 ‘bills’ - but then the gag’s done in one shot, with no escalating perplexity.
And thank you. You have it exactly right.
The thing is…it’s not funny.
Dealing with checks is a pain in the ass.
Multiple checks, multiple pains in the ass…no “humor”, no “sustained joke”, no “escalating perplexity.” (seriously…“escalating perplexity”??)
BTW, I worked for years in a comic book store. While a lot of my customers were average people, most of the regulars were some seriously dorky dudes. No offense, I like dorky dudes…why else would I have been working there?
Sure, it’s funny. You’re just caught up analyzing it from the wrong perspective. The funny part isn’t, “Look at the stripper having to deal with all these checks!” The funny part is, “Look at the moron who thinks its okay to pass out checks in a strip club!”
Er, not that I’m trying to call the OP a moron, of course.
You have to pay extra for that, anyway.
Clearly not the angle outlined in the OP:
He and his buddies thought it would be hilarious for they themselves to walk into a strip club with pre-written checks to hand out as tips until they got thrown out.
The “joke” is based on the idea of purposefully being annoying by making someone’s job harder simply for their own amusement. That kind if thing is rarely “hilarious” to anyone over the age of 15.
There’s no accounting for taste.
And yet Candid Camera type shows continue to do just this around the world…
OK, I would like to ask…who would be the intended audience for this joke?
Are you expecting that the stripper would be the one who is first escalatingly perplexed, then doubled over with laughter and telling future patrons about the hilarious joke perpetrated on her while giving them a lap dance?
Or is it the other bar patrons who will find the angry check receiving stripper so side-splittingly comical they cant wait to get home and post about the awesome check giving dude on their favorite message board?
Even better, do you see the whole bar wiping the tears from their eyes as they laugh uncontrollably at the absurdness of you giving a stripper a series of 1$ checks?
Or is it just you, the 2 people on this thread who said it was funny, and your dorky comic book friends who will be laughing at your dumb prank?
Well, yeah. If a customer I was serving at the bar left me a $2 check to cash, or $2 in pennies, I’d consider it damn disrespectful. You expect me to go to all the way the bank on Monday to get my tip, or count out 200 pennies? Way to make my job much harder and more thankless at the end of 12 hours on my feet, jerkoff.
It’s almost as funny as throwing pennies at hookers, as in, it’s not funny at all.
You’re only bolstering my point.
Which is that you’re out of touch with popular styles of humor?
Do me a favor - take a look at the Google ads that appear for you below the thread - do you see any for rectal splinter removal, by any chance? 
Presumably you will be depositing a good amount of the cash you get in the bank anyway, to pay bills and such. Yes, it’s a bit of a dickish move, but it’s not actually making you do anything you wouldn’t have to do anyway.
Mild inconvenience or confusion - which is about the most you can do legally with a prank. I understand some people don’t think it’s funny to mess with people just doing their jobs, in any capacity. I obviously disagree. As long as it’s legal, doesn’t cause a panic, and doesn’t get the employee fired, of course.
How sad that people still think that way.
Hey, look how funny!
I just gave my personal information, including routing and checking account numbers, to someone who likely has a substance abuse problem (sorry girls).
I hope they get the joke, and don’t do anything silly in return…
I was in a strip club when some yahoo actually tried this. the bouncers at this club took “their” girls very very seriously. I don’t know what happened to the guy outside the door but I did see him bounce off the door frame at least once on his way to the parking lot, AFTER the girls took him on stage and had their way with him (forget the term they used but it wasn’t fun to watch)
I get that it’s just a thought experiment that won’t be followed through on and, as such, it could be simultaneously thought of as both funny and an offensively shitty thing to do, like that idea with the chimp and the tricycle. In real life it would be massively dickish, in the same category as paying the pizza guy with a sack of change, or asking the cashier to ring up a cart full of items separately. But this:
is fucked up. If you are serious and not just engaging in stubborn defense of a point in an internet discussion, don’t be surprised if you get blacklisted from wherever you try that sort of thing.
I think you are seeing things in my statement which are not there.