Do you get this joke?

16 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube clip (spoken transcript) in which Hadar Shemesh defines a pun as wordplay that uses similar-sounding words or words with different meanings, and illustrates the concept with a peanut joke: 'Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was assaulted.' The speaker explains the double meaning of 'assaulted' (a peanut being salted vs. being attacked).

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A pun is a type of joke that plays with words. So it usually uses words that either sound similar or the same words that have different meanings. And then that what makes it funny. Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was assaulted. So assaulted. Peanut is a peanut that was salted, has salt around it. But someone who is assaulted means that the peanut was attacked, which is something that could happen at a bar. Assaulted, Assaulted. Get it?