Ah jeez, I almost got away with not explaining this one. Alright, you got me, here goes:
A guy sees a kid playing with a welder’s mask on sitting by the side of the road trying to hitch a ride. He picks him up and, gradually - as if testing the waters - starts asking increasingly sexual questions, like “do you know what a blowjob is, do you know what a pedophile is”, et cetera. If you’re telling this joke right, then by the time you get to the punchline the mood in the room is tense and grim, nobody’s laughing - right? It sounds like something terrible is about to occur. Then the kid opens up the welder’s mask and delivers the punchline I quoted above as if to say why is this idiot asking a dumb kid all these technical welding questions? It gets laughs, but mostly due to the relief everyone feels when it’s over.
It’s one of those jokes that kind of torments the audience, which is why it popped into my head when she posted “be nice, tell good jokes”. If you get the reference, it’s laughably out of place. Definitely not so funny it’s worth explaining, but since the reddit posts that explain it have all been deleted I decided to give the rundown for general posterity.
… And the kid just says, “Look mister, I’m not a real welder.”
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Ah jeez, I almost got away with not explaining this one. Alright, you got me, here goes:
A guy sees a kid playing with a welder’s mask on sitting by the side of the road trying to hitch a ride. He picks him up and, gradually - as if testing the waters - starts asking increasingly sexual questions, like “do you know what a blowjob is, do you know what a pedophile is”, et cetera. If you’re telling this joke right, then by the time you get to the punchline the mood in the room is tense and grim, nobody’s laughing - right? It sounds like something terrible is about to occur. Then the kid opens up the welder’s mask and delivers the punchline I quoted above as if to say why is this idiot asking a dumb kid all these technical welding questions? It gets laughs, but mostly due to the relief everyone feels when it’s over.
It’s one of those jokes that kind of torments the audience, which is why it popped into my head when she posted “be nice, tell good jokes”. If you get the reference, it’s laughably out of place. Definitely not so funny it’s worth explaining, but since the reddit posts that explain it have all been deleted I decided to give the rundown for general posterity.