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Comparisons Joke Pattern

Humor from comparing two things in a surprising or exaggerated way. Put two ideas side by side and make the similarity or difference sharper than expected.

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Examples

My inbox is a garden of demands.
Coffee is a permission slip for speech.
Mondays are alarms with weather.
A toddler is a blender with opinions.
My budget is a sad spreadsheet.
Your face looks like a rotten mushroom ready to puff out spores.

Try it

Write jokes that compare the topic to something unexpected.