SHOW NOTES

What is Regicide? Here’s what Google said.

There. We fixed Google. Some definitions also state that it has to be the intentional killing of the reigning monarch.

Anyway.

In this episode Liam & Ben are charged with delivering 5 minutes of Star Wars Puns. No, of course they couldn’t do it, but they raised an interesting point about whether or not something is a joke or a pun. So, what is the difference?

According to the tiny amount of research we did, a “pun” is any form of wordplay where a word is replaced with a similar word to add new meaning. A “joke” usually follows the format of setup; punchline with some deviation here and there. Punchlines can be puns. Not all punchlines are jokes but if a punchline is a pun then it is both a pun and a joke. Liam was right.

Here’s a video from 7 years ago where Arin Hanson did exactly the same thing but much funnier and with a developed character, voice acted and everything. Skip to 5:10.

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Music by Liam Taylor.

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