bar-joke-2
Original: bar-joke-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption over a priest, a rabbi, and a bald monk standing together): "A PRIEST, A RABBI, AND A LAMA WALK INTO A BAR."
Panel 2 (a smiling red-haired bartender): "THE BARTENDER SAYS, 'IS THIS A JOKE?'"
Panel 3 (caption over the three religious figures and the bartender at the bar): "IT IS NOT. THEY HAVE COME NOT TO LAUGH, BUT TO DRINK, FOR THEY HAVE ALL BEEN REPLACED BY PREACHERS WITH FEWER DEMANDS AND BETTER MARKETING."
In the background of panel 3, a televangelist-style preacher on a screen or stage exclaims: "THE HOLY SPIRIT GONNA MAKE YOU RICH TODAYUH!"
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "length of punchline." A red curve rises gently at first and then sharply upward, showing funniness increasing as the punchline gets longer.
Panel 2 (a smiling red-haired bartender): "THE BARTENDER SAYS, 'IS THIS A JOKE?'"
Panel 3 (caption over the three religious figures and the bartender at the bar): "IT IS NOT. THEY HAVE COME NOT TO LAUGH, BUT TO DRINK, FOR THEY HAVE ALL BEEN REPLACED BY PREACHERS WITH FEWER DEMANDS AND BETTER MARKETING."
In the background of panel 3, a televangelist-style preacher on a screen or stage exclaims: "THE HOLY SPIRIT GONNA MAKE YOU RICH TODAYUH!"
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The vertical axis is labeled "funniness" and the horizontal axis is labeled "length of punchline." A red curve rises gently at first and then sharply upward, showing funniness increasing as the punchline gets longer.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a priest (white collar), a rabbi (full gray beard, dark cap), and a bald monk in robes stand together, with a caption: "A priest, a rabbi, and a lama walk into a bar." Panel 2: a cheerful red-haired bartender, captioned: "The bartender says, 'Is this a joke?'" Panel 3: the three religious figures stand at the bar; caption: "It is not. They have come not to laugh, but to drink, for they have all been replaced by preachers with fewer demands and better marketing." In the background a televangelist on a screen shouts, "The Holy Spirit gonna make you rich todayuh!" Votey: a hand-drawn graph with "funniness" on the y-axis and "length of punchline" on the x-axis; a red curve rises slowly then steeply, joking that the longer the punchline, the funnier it gets.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.