Lots of people think it's a Jeopardy reference, but actually I was thinking of that time Watson and I were cellmates in prison, and it kept raping me.
After I read that response I scrolled right back up and checked his proof that it's him. I knew Ken Jennings has a sense of humor, but I clearly underestimated him.
I was a little jarred that he explicitly mentioned rape. Don't get me wrong, nothing is off-limits for a joke, provided it is funny enough, but this joke is just as funny without the last clause. Including it is just redundant, not to mention it pulls the punchline slightly. To me it reads like he's trying to be offensive.
I guess this version of the punchline could hit through a language barrier though?
Ehhh, it depends on your expectations (or how you "mentally deliver" it, for a text joke). To me just a prison rape reference is kind of tired, so spelling it out contradicted my expectations and was much funnier.
Ah, I hadn't considered that reading of it. For what it's worth, I'd want a full stop period or even line break before the second punchline before I'd read it that way. In that way the joke is perhaps much more funny to people who read it that way and only slightly less funny to others.
"My Sunday school teacher, when I was a Mormon teen, once memorably advised us that "There's nothing more overrated than sex, and nothing more underrated than a good bowel movement." It totally worked...I don't remember a single other sermon from when I was a kid, but I think about this guy exactly once a day, and then again once a week."
After I read that response I scrolled right back up and checked his proof that it's him. I knew Ken Jennings has a sense of humor, but I clearly underestimated him.