Seeing a good clapback is always satisfying. It's witty, has an element of justice, and can defend against unnecessary insults. The funnier it is, though, the more effective. We don't only want justice, we want to make the comeback sting more with a joke.
There is an X (Twitter) page that collects this sort of humor. People online say all sorts of things. And there's no shortage of wannabe comedians or just people with a well-developed funny bone online as well. Clever Comebacks is the place where one can find some witty roasts. So we invite you to scroll through our selection from this X page and tell us your own stories of clapping back in style.
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Already done thanks to Obama. Seriously my roommate is diabetic and when he got on ACA his insulin went from $500 per month to $50 per month. He literally cried he was so happy.
How many of us would want to be able to come up with witty comebacks on the spot? How often do most of us wonder how to clap back in the moment? Not an hour, a day, or a week later. The secret to a great comeback, according to a theater artistic director, is focusing, really focusing, on what the other person is saying.
Abigail Paul, the artistic director at the Theatre Language Studio (TLS) in Frankfurt, told the BBC in 2016 that you can't really plan a good comeback. It's like improv on stage in that regard – you work with what the other person is giving you. Paul claims that people think faster than other people speak. That gives them time to come up with a witty answer.
Paul says good listening skills come in handy when coming up with a clever comeback. For those who want to hone their listening skills, she suggests a simple game of one-word volleyball. Two people build a story by quickly adding a word as a response to what the other person just said.
She uses the same technique when teaching improvisation theater. "The goal is that we let go of our own ego and our own ideas because a huge part of listening is that you really have to be willing to be changed by what's being said," Paul told the BBC.
People begin hearing insults thrown at them in childhood. Although at that age they might seem insignificant, a child should know how to react properly. Psychiatrist Suzanne Bender, M.D., writes for Psychology Today that ignoring the other person doesn't always work. "Rude remarks without any pushback may continue, or even escalate," she added.
Considering the amount of rage... it might've been a printer.
Agreeing with the offender might work. But children should do so with humor. If a kid tells another child "You look like a grape in this shirt", the kid might retort with "Well, I love grapes and couldn’t be prouder to represent this fruit." Yet the problem with this is that it requires verbal agility and to think on one's feet.
And after that Sodom, and Gomorrha, and someone for looking over their shoulder while walking away.
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I will always be amazed at the stunning lack of thinking(?) that goes in the attempt of someone of faith to use logic or examples to fortify their arguments that are explicitly stated should be taken on faith. Unfortunately twisted.
I mean, it's right there in their beliefs. You have to have "faith", because logic would mean you see it for the farce it is.
Load More Replies... They cancelled an aramaic preacher man for talking about one god and benevolence
Some people might say that the concept of God was an early attempt to be able to cancel people who had different beliefs and habits.
Well, I think it began as a way to explain things like where the sun goes at night and what happens when you die, but then things got out of hand when some people decided they could turn it to their own advantage.
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Why is it cancel culture protestors only stand up for predators and racists? Meanwhile they ban books, enforce dress codes, enact religious law...
If you believe in God, you must accept that he is busy cancelling / smiting people ALL THE TIME.
Depends on whether you take the position of the Evangelical Christians that the Bible is literal truth, or that of early, and past, Christians that they are fables and stories meant to teach and guide. I remember a Time Magazine article in the early aughts about a movement of young people distancing themselves from the term Christian, and embracing terms like Followers of Jesus, because they did not agree with the Evangelicals and those like them.
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Just because I'm a pedantic Ahole... Nowhere in the bible does it actually say it was an apple. In the original Hebrew text from the Book of Enoch, the tree is described as a species of Tamarind with a grape like fruit. I'd argue that as it was from The Tree of the Knowledge of Good an Evil, which was a unique tree, the fruit was also likely unique.
Nope -- didn't cancel them. He was still around. They just had to work for their living...
Coupla cities too... Turns out 'I don't like that, make it not happen any more' is a universal thing.
God has canceled whole cities full of people, multiple groups of people and individuals, and once he canceled the entire human race except for one guy and his immediate family! oh, and there are some Christians canceling people right now for not believing in him.
Nobody ever got cancelled all the way into a literal pillar of salt, guys, cmon.
If a person doesn't believe a single book is literal and absolute, don't the Christians cancel him?
The more I learn and understand about religion and scripts like the bible, the more ridiculous it gets. But ok, people kind of need to believe, whatever it is.
He promised not to do it again, but if he acts like us humans, watch out.
he then allowed let them die by keeping them away from the tree of life- pretty sure that it a cancel.
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And Polio, Ruebella, Measles, Pertussis, hell even Chicken Pox. Before a vaccine became available, approximately 100 US children, died each year from Chicken Pox.
However,children can practice and enhance their verbal agility. Bender suggests parents roleplay with their kids. That way, the child can take turns to be both the aggressor and the responder. Practicing these types of situations might increase the kid's confidence. Next time, they might have a clever comeback prepared, and that's incredibly empowering to a young child.
Also the left isn''t the one hoarding guns and ammo and preparing for a new civil war. We don't want war and bloodshed. That's kind of our thing.
What's interesting is that "the battle of wits" is not an invention of social media. Pamela Druckerman writes for The New York Times about the movie "Ridicule", which examines the social injustices of late 18th-century France. It portrays French aristocrats as having a never-ending battle of wits.
International alliance of nationalists? So …globalism ?
Living in California, the Swiss Cheese logic here is accurate.
The film is set on the eve of the French Revolution, and shows the corruption and callousness of the aristocrats. Those who were able to make their rivals look ridiculous, possessed 'esprit.' As Merriam Webster defines it, the term means 'vivacious cleverness or wit.' The movie’s tagline is this: "Wit opens every door."
Regardless of the man / woman context, this is the best response of all.
Druckerman likens this order of society to her daughter's playground. You and everyone around you is in a competition not to look ridiculous. "When my daughter complained that a boy had insulted her during recess, I counseled her to forget about it," Druckerman writes. "She said that just wouldn't do: To save face, she had to humiliate him."
Not to mention that just because two people of biologically opposite genders (male and female) have sex and conceive, that does NOT mean those people are or were “straight”. Bisexual people exist. Pansexual people exist. And non-binary people exist. And genderfluid people exist. Many people are capable of conceiving a child. Having sex that results in pregnancy does not automatically make the genetically-contributing parties “straight”.
So if we're doomed to always be on our toes and have witty comebacks ready on the go, how do we make them land? Belina Raffy, a business improvisation consultant, told the BBC that it's best to respond to an insult in a positive way. She says that toxic banter turns the environment sour for every employee.
Did they seriously just suggest daily prostitution as a retirement plan?
Europeans didn't colonize America, they conquered it by committing genocide on the people who were already here.
Instead of being mean, says Raffy, try to reveal the "ridiculousness of the situation" and don't make the antagonist the bad guy. It's best to turn them into the "victim" of the circumstances. What are some examples? "If a colleague says, 'This project is going nowhere fast,' you could say, 'At least it's going and I intend to steer it in the right direction,'" Raffy suggests.
Maybe if you cover your face with a mask you might get some action to
I think the OP is a functional something, but BoredPanda doesn't allow bad words ...
Kevin Sorbo is the guy famous for playing Hercules in the '90s TV series. He has since gone a little funny in the head and believes some very strange things.
Uh oh, you're trying to use sense or logic on a vaccine denier? It is astounding how ineffective that method is (although "I" think your example is brilliant). Well done.
Six pack abs are nice to look at, but dad bods are best for cuddling.
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We need less AITAs and more of these. It's actually entertainment
EVERY SINGLE ONE of the first 20 had been on BP at least a dozen times.
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I'm left wondering how many times Bored Pandas will see the exact same jokes repeated again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again before they stop up-voting while saying to themselves "Oooh! I love this joke because it reinforces my political opinions"
We need less AITAs and more of these. It's actually entertainment
EVERY SINGLE ONE of the first 20 had been on BP at least a dozen times.
Load More Replies... I'm left wondering how many times Bored Pandas will see the exact same jokes repeated again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again before they stop up-voting while saying to themselves "Oooh! I love this joke because it reinforces my political opinions"
