50 Of The Most Brilliant Comebacks Ever Screenshotted, As Shared On The ‘Clever Comebacks’ Twitter Page (New Pics)
Comeback refers to a quick reply to a critical remark which basically shuts down the critic immediately. The best comebacks are always a step ahead in restoring karma, defending the accused ones, and making that snap which is entertaining to anyone who witnesses it.
And since experiencing a real-life clapback which is both fun and witty is somewhat rare, we turn to the internet, or this Twitter page, to be precise, to give ourselves a masterclass in savage comebacks.
Named “Clever Comebacks,” the page is busy sharing exactly what it promises in the title and from 75.5k followers, it seems like it’s doing a pretty good job. More masterclass comebacks from the same account can be found in our previous feature right here!
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Call the fire department, thats is not a burn, thats a frikking forest fire....
In a previous interview, Bored Panda spoke with Abigail Paul, an actress, standup comedian and improviser who has been giving seminars on incorporating theatre techniques for purposes beyond the stage to schools, businesses and organizations.
Abigail argues that the secret to any comeback is connection. “If you are really listening to (and connecting with) another person, you are taking them in fully, aware of who they are, the context in which you are dealing with this person,” she said.
if the shoes are long enough that takes care of social distancing
Moreover, according to the comedian, people do this assessment unconsciously. In fact, we aren't even always aware that we are always sizing up other people. “This is too often because we are so focused on ourselves.” A great comeback feels great because it was earned, Abigail argues. “It was spontaneous. The commenter was probably really listening. It was unique to that moment, set of people, situation,” she told us some time ago.
Yeah, that’s because we’re so.... I can’t be bothered to finish that sentence 🥱😴
One of the biggest challenges in saying a comeback is making sure it doesn’t sound mean. But Abigail reminds us that a comeback is not a clapback. The latter one “is generally sarcastic, but a clapback might be fun among friends.”
At the same time, the context of a situation always matters. “In working on status exercises in improv, we try to get people to see that the easiest way to raise another person's status is to lower their own. We see that in standup comedy too. Usually it works best if the comic is the butt of the joke, not the audience. (There are plenty of exceptions.)”
And also, expecting them to be happy is first of all sexist, and also dumb because how would they be happy when so many problems plague femalekind, like pink tax, groping, jerks like this guy, etc. Today in my bus some guy apparently pulled up the shirt of & touched this girl in her private parts. That girl is a 4th grader, and that guy is that age or younger! (my school goes from Nursery to 12th grade).
Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna potate. Karens gonna talk to a lawyer about suing an underage child. Something tells me there's more than just hairstyle why kids call that karen, karen.
While you don’t need to be too self-effacing for a good comeback, if it can lift other people up, the job is done. “When it works well and gains the speaker a laugh and cements the bond that says, we are in this together,” Abigail explained.
While comebacks can be used as an excellent communication tool, listening skills are the most important thing. “Paying attention, making accurate observations about the people in the room, and how they feel—these are the tools that will make a comeback really shine,” Abigail explained.
My granddad died of Parkinson’s so it would be a slap in the face for me if a cure is discovered now
certainly played a part in my communism love story comrade
Well, to be fair, it wasn’t “literally” an apple. Artists just chose to make it an an apple, same as them making Jesus white.
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Wasn’t the story of Noah literally the about the god cancelling the planet’s population?
To be fair, they were warned from the beginning, did they not read the terms and conditions of the garden of eden? :/
They could not read those untill after they ate the apple. God is sneaky in that way. That story makes you wonder though. If the apple of knowlegde was forbidden for humans, who was it for, and what was Gods original plans for us? Just hopping along naked in a garden and happily not knowing about anything for all eternity? Seems like kind of a waste of a big brain and not very fun in the long run.
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Canceled Sodom and Gomorrah. Canceled Job's entire family over a $5 bet with Satan. Old Testament God is a Boomer cancel king. His kid was pretty much a Gen Z can't we all just be friends and be at peace with each other kind of guy. Yo dude you hungry, have some bread, fish, and some wine. This dude is blind this other guy has leprosy let me help you out. You dead, nah get up you're just tired. I always wondered if Jesus was embarrassed by his dad? Last words on the cross were pretty much asking dad not to cancel the human race again. And that's why I was the only one in my family not allowed to go to Catholic school.
And all the first borns of Egypt. Sorry - you got cancelled.
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Also, in religions defense it wasn’t.” Oh nO yOu AtE aN APpLe!!??” It was “you did teh one thing I literally told you not to do? Seriously?” Plz don’t downvote me I’m just providing some clarification , not saying Christianity is perfect
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Yeah... It is not like there has been any attemt to cancel anyone in the name of the Abraham God. Except one or two pagans in Europe.. a few native cultures here and there... Religios by the book people are known for their tolerance with LGTB. And I remember how happy they where during the 80s when Twisted Sister, WASP etc. became popular. It wasnt like there was any attempt to cancel that kind of music or anything, right? And the Pearly gates are not realy gates since Heaven is not at all a gated community no one at all is cancelled from entering based on anything they said or done.
vice president al gores' wife tipper gore got the senate to hold hearings on the music you mention to get them banned. Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister testified quite Eloquently
Load More Replies... Jesue cancelled and fig tree for not having figs even though, as per the text, "IT WASN'T THE SEASON FOR BEARING FIGS"
I may be a little clueless here, so help me out rather than downvote or cancel me. I’m open to better suggestions & learning. Here’s how I explained “cancel culture” to my 8yo: people have established a presence of themselves online as they want strangers, friends & family to see them. Sometimes its who they actually are & often it’s an image of how they want to be seen. When they say or do something offensive or abusive, the strangers (or friends/family) hold them accountable. They “call them out” for this. Often times it’s done aggressively or it’s abusive itself. These people then have to delete or silence their online presence or they have to apologize & show they’ve learned from their mistakes. That is cancelling and the prominence of this on social media makes it a culture.
I believe it started by calling out people that were trying to hide the things they did in the past and were getting away with it like it never happened. The problem started when people were getting their lives destroyed even after they apologized and have changed their ways.
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I think 'apple' is an allegory in this story. The human backside is sometimes compared to an apple. I think this god figure caught them eating eachothers 'apple' and was grossed out by it.
I don’t know why you were downvoted. I upvoted you cos this was funny!!!
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God sent two bears to cancel (aka rip apart) 42 children because they laughed at a bald guy.
I thought it was the 'sacred fruit you will not touch', not an apple?? I coula been anything. A lemon. A tree onion. Who knows?
Or cancelling a whole culture and language because they figured out how to unite and build something amazing to save themselves and their children. I have tried to interpret the story of the Tower of Babel over the years and come to the same conclusion as when I was five: Petty jealous being destroys own children's accomplishment in order to feel needed.
and another story details how he cancelled pretty much the entire human race
and lets not even talk about "the flood". Canceled the whole f*cking planet.
There is also a story about said god cancelling not only entire human race, but also most animals that can't fly or swim, just because of a hissy fit.
Like how people sit in front of buildings yelling at people that they will go to hell.
Have any of you actually read and understood that incident in the Bible. Heavenly Father used their choice to help them be independent, and actually do what He asked them to do, and take care of the Creation. They couldn't do that, confined to the Garden of Eden.
Cancelled all life on the entire planet save for one family of humans and some breeding pairs of every other species (seven pairs of each 'clean' animal, two each 'unclean') because his not-so omniscient a*s failed in his initial design and he didn't like how his pet humans turned out.
When exactly did the downvote button stop being used to hide hate and start being a tool to punish people for daring to have the wrong opinion? I see this all the time and it pisses me off but it's especially offensive when it's disrespecting my religion. The post itself is a fine joke, I try not to let things like this get under my skin, but it's ridiculous the way people are being downvoted to hell for expressing completely reasonable points about how, yeah, this is lacking context and a genuine understanding of theology. But they're the ones being offensive, obviously.
I read a little bit of the bible and I didn't understand what happened there until you said it. Also, a F*****G APPLE?!!
According to the absurd stories in the Bible, this person's god has cancelled many, many people!
a) Plenty of 'canceled' people showing up on TV, radio , and print getting paid to say they were canceled. b) Liberal professors shown the door for upsetting conservatives would say "Welcome to our world" but for the lack of sponsors. c) Adam's first job according to the Bible was to name all the creatures and plants and was given dominion over all. He also had free room, board and health care. He lost all of that after the fruit incident.
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True beauty comes from the inside. This new gf must be a better person than the ex.
and PASSPORTS! EVERY COUNTRY YOU'VE BEEN TO HAD THOSE!! THE HORRORR
well it involves a time machine, some ballpoint pens and a whole lot of dumplings. Who's with me?
I get so mad at this, if the rest of the clothes turned back, why didn’t the shoe? And also if the shoe didn’t turn back when it fell off, why didn’t she take off other things so they would stay?
do. not. put. the. salmon. in. the. wet. towels. and. then. the. microwave.
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Frank Zappa once said when you reduce a concept to a bumper sticker mentality you are in deep s**t. Lots of snappy comebacks though.
Yeah I feel like I saw all these before. Here. On BP.
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Lol once in class my teacher said the name of some show that I forgot it’s name, and one kid was like,” lemme guess, an old person show,” and the teacher just stopped in her tracks but she is a nice teacher so she didn’t take it too seriously and later she was talking about discounts, and said that there are discounts for people like senior discounts and she said specifically to the one kid that no, she isn’t old enough for it not expecting anything, and he said “really?” It was hilarious lol
Including all the religious posts, seems you just wanted to start a thread on bulling 😂 man, this comment section was harsh! edit: why the down votes? I never said I didn't agree with it, only stated the bullying.
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Likely because, sadly, they are presenting themselves often as the most ridiculous figures in our modern society today. When you spout fully ignorant rhetoric about atheists or women or groups of people in general, why would you be surprised you're going to get owned?
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Frank Zappa once said when you reduce a concept to a bumper sticker mentality you are in deep s**t. Lots of snappy comebacks though.
Yeah I feel like I saw all these before. Here. On BP.
Load More Replies... Lol once in class my teacher said the name of some show that I forgot it’s name, and one kid was like,” lemme guess, an old person show,” and the teacher just stopped in her tracks but she is a nice teacher so she didn’t take it too seriously and later she was talking about discounts, and said that there are discounts for people like senior discounts and she said specifically to the one kid that no, she isn’t old enough for it not expecting anything, and he said “really?” It was hilarious lol
Including all the religious posts, seems you just wanted to start a thread on bulling 😂 man, this comment section was harsh! edit: why the down votes? I never said I didn't agree with it, only stated the bullying.
Your consideration is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Load More Replies... Likely because, sadly, they are presenting themselves often as the most ridiculous figures in our modern society today. When you spout fully ignorant rhetoric about atheists or women or groups of people in general, why would you be surprised you're going to get owned?
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