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What do you call the equivalent of a joke that's meant to

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What do you call the equivalent of a joke that's meant to be sad instead of funny? i.e. a short thing you say with a punchline except its just sad, not funny.

Surely this is a thing?
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Your life
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>>9255607
I think it's still called a joke.
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>>9255608

Fugg >:DD

>>9255607

In English we just have the term 'anti-joke'. Here is an opportunity to coin something really new.
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>>9255612

Anti-jokes are usually still funny: the formula is to take a well-known joke and instead of delivering the punchline, you end it with the opposite of what the audience expects, for example

>your moma's so fat... she will likely suffer with heart disease

Contrast this with a joke that is actually structured like a joke, that is, it has a punchline that people can laugh at, but there's also something sad about it.

>My boyfriend is into some really strange roleplay when we have sex. He always insists on pretending to be 14 years old.
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>>9255641
>>My boyfriend is into some really strange roleplay when we have sex. He always insists on pretending to be 14 years old.
Still a joke, basically it's making fun of dudes with weird fetishes (reality) by exaggeration
??
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>>9255641
That's neither sad nor joke-structured. It's just two factual sentences.
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A downer
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a Schumer.
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>She wasn't clear on what "club sody" was, but it was clear from his tone that this was a joke. Not the laugh-out-loud sort, but the commiserating sort.
I'd just call it a joke.
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>>9255646

i think it's supposed to mean the girl is underage and naive
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>>9255607
That's actually the meaning of Comedy
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Is standup /lit/?
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>>9255899
only this guy
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>>9255607
RARE
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>Have you ever seen the movie "Carrie?" Where the high school elects a nerdy girl prom queen and then they dump a bucket of pig's blood on her? Similar thing happened at my high school, but instead of getting her revenge by killing all the bullies with telekinetic powers she just killed herself.

Made up this joke on the spot and told it to my friends. None of them thought it was funny.
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>>9256991
this is unironically hilarious
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>>9255607
an Amy Schumer joke
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>>9256991
Suicide is touchy. You really gotta know your audience with jokes like that. Generally, I wait until I have some sort of precedent for that kind of humor before I start using it in whatever company I'm in.

FWIW I thought it was good.
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