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For Supreme Court geeks, this is really funny.
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There are three times when you laugh at a joke:
Once, when you hear it.
Once, when it's explained to you.
And, once, when you understand it.
You are correct, it was funny.
If you can't explain the actual joke, can you tell me in what way it's funny? Is it, for example,
* funny because you're laughing at Goldstein for promoting himself while feigning humility?
* funny because you're laughing with Goldstein for being a hopeless Supreme Court geek by having an iPhone full of professional-looking photos of Supreme Court justices and Supreme Court bar types?
* funny because it's a takeoff on an actual iPhone commercial that I simply haven't seen?
* funny in a cute way?
* funny in a vomit-inducing way?
* funny in a geek porn way?
I'm more confused than anything, but if it's truly inexplicable then I'll let it rest.
Unless you have much more game than I, at some point you have sat around obsessing over whether a given person was going to return your call. So it's funny in the sense that, instead of "stalking" some hottie, he's tripping because Clement hasn't returned his call.
To me, that's hilarious. To you, it might not be.
Many things in life are like that.
I didn't think the skit was that funny, but the idea definitely had potential. If a few of the story lines were developed a bit more, some of the lines were adjusted, and the timing were slightly improved: GOLD. Perhaps Akin Gump would be interested in hiring a comedy writer to its staff.
All in all, it was a cute spoof.