How I Got Banned From One of the Most Popular Subreddits

Without even trying to!

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I’m a comedian. Some of my jokes are “normal,” but a lot of them are what people would describe as weird.

There’s a subreddit called r/standupshots and I tried to translate my humor into that format. It worked in my opinion, but the response I got was quite mixed. People either thought I was an idiot who did not even understand comedy, or they thought I was a genius.

Really I am somewhere in between, in my opinion.

This was one of my favorites. A physical bit written out so you just have to use your imagination. (I think the format can be part of the joke.)

And that was just one of dozens I posted, thought not all of them were that silly or experimental.

Sometimes they would miraculously do quite well. I could never guess which ones would burst out. They…