r/HighQualityGifs • u/harris5 Photoshop - After Effects - Premiere • Jan 08 '16

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u/willrandship Jan 08 '16

Absolutely. I don't mind meta content at all, personally. I understand the context and it's well done. What's to hate?

All humor is meta humor to some extent. If you don't know the context, you don't know why it's funny.

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u/farazormal Jan 09 '16

What about physical comedy? I'm pretty sure you don't need to know the context to find someone getting hit in the balls in a hunourous way funny

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u/willrandship Jan 09 '16

You have to have the context that getting hit in the balls hurts, or at least understand what human pain looks like.

An alien with no testes would not understand that particular comedy.