Justin Ohms
1 min readApr 14, 2024

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Satire is much funnier when it’s subtle. This is heavy handed and is veers absurdist but for absurdist humor it’s written too dryly and without any of the of the wackiness you would expect. It also really goes on about twice as long as it needs to the point where I feel like I’m being beat over the head over and over again with forced lame political jokes just because the writer had lots of ideas but couldn’t whittle them down to just a few gems. In the end most of these jokes just fall flat and don’t really hit as particularly funny and fall more in the “wtf did I just read?” genre rather than having an actual hook or punch line. And that’s fine as a genre, it can work and can be funny but one after another of that same thing just ends up sounding like a bunch of drunks trying to one up each other. Not all jokes need to be good but here the ratio is way off and the bad ones bring down the actual funny ones in a drivel of forgettable meh. Remember writing and humor are as much about what you don’t say and leave off the page as what you do.

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