# So- How About a Place to Try and Critique Jokes. Adult Humor **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [May 1, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989 "2024-05-01T00:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/1 "2024-05-01T00:29:36Z")
So I am not a comedian. I don’t think I’m very funny. But sometimes I have an idea for a joke that I think could be funny in the hands of someone who’s actually funny. An example would be y (posted in another thread) joke that I know there’s a joke about Sisyphus and BJs, but nothing is coming. So this occurred to me: I’m sitting on the nude beach in Greece and this chick walks up to me and seems to be checking me out. Suddenly she grabs my junk, rips it clean off, and throws it into the ocean. Naturally I’m stunned, until the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen walks out of the surf, totally naked, and straight towards me. And at that moment I realize, I have no genitals. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/2 "2024-05-01T00:47:11Z")
It may be adult, but I’m completely missing the humor aspect of it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/3 "2024-05-01T00:58:14Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I’m sitting on the nude beach in Greece and this chick walks up to me and seems to be checking me out. Suddenly she grabs my junk, rips it clean off, and throws it into the ocean. Naturally I’m stunned, until the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen walks out of the surf, totally naked, and straight towards me. _“I will grant you three wishes,”_ she says. _“What is your third?”_ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/4 "2024-05-01T01:16:25Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > It may be adult, but I’m completely missing the humor aspect of it. Do you mind explaining the joke? Is the last line a pun? Or a reference to something? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/5 "2024-05-01T01:40:00Z")
Aphrodite? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/6 "2024-05-01T01:50:52Z")
You told it well, but the punch line should be something , an unexpected turn. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/7 "2024-05-01T10:10:33Z")
That’s not a joke, it’s a David Lynch movie. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/8 "2024-05-01T10:22:43Z")
“The Aristocrats!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/9 "2024-05-01T12:44:45Z")
I’m a big David Lynch fan, and I endorse this post. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/10 "2024-05-01T12:48:20Z")
I don’t get it. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a David Lynch movie. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/11 "2024-05-01T13:13:14Z")
Keep your day job. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/12 "2024-05-01T13:15:56Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Aphrodite? Then his son should have been the one to rip off his junk and throw it into the sea. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/13 "2024-05-01T13:19:03Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I don’t get it. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a David Lynch movie. **Mulholland Drive**. Watch it five or six times. Then we can talk. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/14 "2024-05-01T13:20:55Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Then his son should have been the one to rip off his junk and throw it into the sea. fair, but this seems extra creepy. By the way, I’m happy for the feedback. Enjoying it very much, in fact. But I also meant this as an invite for people to share their own ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/15 "2024-05-01T13:23:15Z")
You gotta explain: how is that funny? Is the punchline that this guy–victim of a horrific and probably fatal attack–is worried not about his impending death but about whether he can fuck a random stranger? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/16 "2024-05-01T13:23:49Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > I’m sitting on the nude beach in Greece and this chick walks up to me and seems to be checking me out. Suddenly she grabs my junk, rips it clean off, and throws it into the ocean. Naturally I’m stunned, until the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen walks out of the surf, totally naked, and straight towards me. > > And at that moment I realize, I have no genitals. OK, one critique- jokes involving genital mutilation are going to be a tough sell, even if you somehow give it a funny punchline, which you have not. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > _“I will grant you three wishes,”_ she says. _“What is your third?”_ Just to try for a punch-up, TOWP’s post has given me an idea: A man is walking along the beach and finds a lamp buried in the sand. He picks it up, rubs it, and a genie appears, offering the usual three wishes. The man says “I want to be a billionaire, meet the woman of my dreams and be free from worry”. The genie says “as you wish, but that is three wishes. First, check your bank account”. The man gets out his phone and opens his banking app. Sure enough, there is a billion dollars in his account. “For your second wish…” the genie says, and the most beautiful woman the man has ever seen walks up and says “I want you”. Then the genie says “for your last wish, most sources of worry and strife arise from desire, so I’ve cured that”. The man realizes he suddenly has absolutely no libido. He takes a peek down below and sees he’s as smooth as a Ken doll. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/17 "2024-05-01T13:24:43Z")
Well, yeah. Also, in my imagining it was less a horrific injury and more a magical “poof” its gone and he’s now a smoothy. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/18 "2024-05-01T13:28:10Z")
Oh. I was imagining blood everywhere, something straight out of _Midsommar_. Is he gonna rape the random stranger, or is there some indication that she’d even want to have sex with him in the first place? Is the woman magically created by his genitals thrown in the ocean, in a twist on Adam’s rib? This really comes across as surreal horror to me: the events aren’t connected to one another. A joke doesn’t need to be realistic, but there needs to be a clear throughline from one event to the other, unless you’re going for nightmare logic. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/19 "2024-05-01T13:28:17Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > fair, but this seems extra creepy. Take that up with Hesiod: > [@](#): > > The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. If you were _not_ trying to reference that story, I am genuinely surprised. ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989/20 "2024-05-01T13:29:22Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > If you were _not_ trying to reference that story, I am genuinely surprised. I totally was. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-about-a-place-to-try-and-critique-jokes-adult-humor/1000989.md?page=2)