#I’m told that my comedy has a very… niche audience even in my L1 with no language barrier or translation involved so what can I say?

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Me telling a story that happened in a different language: okay, now this next bit is really funny but doesn’t translate well, so let’s take a brief interlude for me to explain to you the sociocultural context behind this idiom. Just give me five minutes and you’ll be laughing, I swear.

Narrator: they did not, in fact, laugh.