Everyone in the audience was asking us to stop.
Because they use fowl language!
Because the jokes are FOWL.
They seem very overrated.
It had in tents violins.
Too much cursing.
Because it had too much violins.
Too much purrfanity.
I guess you could say that the "Joker" without an R is just a joke.
Because it contained alot of violin
It was rated R
I said, "So there's this subreddit you would love, called /r/dadjokes, which is basically just full of a bunch of dad jokes."
Him: "Like what?"
Me: "Well, for example, one of the top-rated ones is this: How do you sell a deaf guy an orange?"
Him: "Sorry, can you repeat that?"
I had even started to repeat the joke before realizing that he had just made a dad joke about a dad joke.
As a big proponent of the dadjoke I want to argue that a dadjoke is not just a pun. I see lots of material submitted here that might be better suited for /r/punny.
Speaking as a dad, for me a classic dad joke is highly dependent on the context.
I can't whip out old standbys at any moment and call them proper dadjokes. If I'm driving my kid to school I can't just ask him "Hey, do you know why the kids couldn't see the pirate movie? It was rated aaarrrgh!". That's just a bad joke.
OTOH, if my kid says "are" kinda funny (which he has before), and I make a joke about him being the youngest pirate I know (I may or may not have done this before), then that's a dadjoke. A shitty one, but still a dadjoke. The best context ones are where a situation presents itself and the dad takes the opportunity to make the lame joke (as in a post from awhile back where the OP overheard three or four dads make almost the exact same joke at an aquarium).
Straight up puns should go to /r/punny. Context specific jokes which rely on vagaries of the language or the funny situation, should stay here.
Just my two cents worth.
Joke 1: why do pirates like corn so much?... ... Because it is a buccaneer.
Joke 2: have you seen the new pirate movie?... ... It was rated Arrrrrrr.
Joke 3: what's a pirates favorite letter?... (usual people guess "R") ... You would think so, but it is actually the sea.
Works really good as a joke routine.
When I was about 15, I asked my parents if I could see "The Matrix." At that time, if I asked to see an R-rated movie, the rule was we waited till it came to video (yes, at the time it was videotapes) and my parents would watch it first without me to decide if they were comfortable with me watching it.
They watched it, and the next day, my dad asked me what I thought The Matrix was- I said it was some kind of group of cops or something that could do cool aerial fighting moves.
He said, "Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is... You have to see it for yourself."
For those who are unfamiliar, this is exactly the line used by one of the main characters when he introduces the concept of The Matrix.
No one? Just me? I thought it was funny. Oh well.
