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[–] garfaagel@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

The there is also the electric piano

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

I just spit coffee everywhere

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not sure what type of humour this is called, but man I love this shit. It's like...almost a non-sequitor.

Gets me every time.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

The evolution of comedy in 75 years: if you made this now the guitar would work.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How did he expect that to work, when it doesn't even have an amp?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Cause the comic was made in 1949, most people only knew acoustic.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But that inevitably leads to the next question: How did he expect to make this joke in 1949? He should have known that Jimi Hendrix hadn't even started playing guitar by then.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Because people had heard of electric guitars

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

I think he's just expecting the player piano version of a guitar.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy needs a good boomer humor community.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That ain't Boomer Humor. The oldest of them would be...4 years old then. It's Greatest Generation humor. The ones whose work the Boomers killed.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fair enough, but stuff like this would fall under that umbrella.

IIRC, the boomer humor subs on reddit allowed stuff outside that era if it was properly labeled.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think Boomer Humor has to not just be from the era, but have some kind of "wife bad" energy to it. This one is just kind of cute.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Hence the term Good Boomer Humor.

Comics that are of the same time and style of those "wife bad" comics, but actually funny and acceptable by today's standards.