Uncle= Right wing teabagger Fox news watcher
Aunt= Lesbian Dogcatcher who goes to musicals
Grandma= Folk Singing taxidermist wrestling fan
Cousin= Incestuous inbred Weather Channel obsessive
Stepmother= Really a sweet person
If you don’t know these things you are culturally illiterate, and have no business watching awards shows.
Man, you just don’t get it…
I didn’t get it either. But then I’ve never considered Andy Samberg to be very funny. Or a comedian. Or an actor. I do consider him to be “a little funny”, as in maybe he needs professional help.
His Emmy joke doesn’t appear to be much of a joke, if that’s what is was. I assume Samberg wrote it himself.
I thought it was a pretty funny line. Like others have said, everyone has that uncle that ruins thanksgiving. this is the kind of guy that would support Trump.
Other typical things attributed to this uncle:
“…and if wasn’t for those god-damned fill in ethnic group here”
“they should just round 'em all up and fill in capital punishment method here”
Usually, these lines are then followed by a few moments of silence were you hear nothing but silverware clinking against plates.
Has there ever been a joke that was funny once it was explained?
This joke doesn’t even need the payoff line, Donald Trump running for President is intrinsically funny, especially to a Hollywood crowd. But let’s go through the exercise.
Set up: Donald Trump is running for President (as I said, intrinsically funny)
Premise: Fans of Donald Trump are likely to be older than Andy Samberg’s demographic
Truth: Your uncle, being a sibling of one of your parents, is likely to be older than you.
Pay off: Uncles love Donald Trump.
Add in the long history of “crazy uncle” jokes (viz. every episode of Welcome Back Kotter ever) and the joke is revealed.
I think the problem in this thread is that some of those uncles are posting in it.
If you didn’t understand it, it’s fine. It’s based on popular culture. If you don’t follow popular culture that’s fine. But it was pretty funny if you do.
And if Samberg didn’t do another thing so long as he lived, he’d be worthy of the history books for this: Jizz In My Pants - YouTube <–NSFW (language) video