An old Jew eventually dies of old age and goes to heaven. He meets God and tells him a holocaust joke. And God says “That’s not funny”. And he says: “I guess you had to be there.”
(I like how philosophical the joke is, heard it from Ricky Gervais.)
An old Jew eventually dies of old age and goes to heaven. He meets God and tells him a holocaust joke. And God says “That’s not funny”. And he says: “I guess you had to be there.”
(I like how philosophical the joke is, heard it from Ricky Gervais.)
It’s sort of a lose/lose situation for God, really. Either he wasn’t there, as the protagonist of the joke is suggesting, or he was there, didn’t find it funny, but also didn’t care to stop it. So by telling a holocaust joke, the protagonist is in essence calling out his creator as being a shit god. Either derelict in his supposed duties (Jews are the chosen people, after all), or shitty in some other way (evil, apathetic, powerless, etc).
Yes, this nuance you added is what makes the joke really funny to me.