Funny / Jack Stauber

Jack Stauber's work can get really disturbing or depressing, but whenever he isn't making you cry or scaring you, he's great at making you laugh.

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Animated Shorts & Un-Extended songs

• "peenids" features a girl going to the library and asking the librarian for a book on swear words. When asked what swear words she already knew, she quietly says sucks, crap, and peenids
• "easter" as a whole is this, but especially the Wham Shot of the old guy eating the poor kid's chocolate.
• In one scene of "Trent The Baby's Christmas", Trent asks his dad how Santa uses the bathroom if he's so busy visiting houses, and Trent's dad says this absolute gem of a line:
  Trent's Dad: Now that's a great question Trent, you see Santa has a magic digestive tract, which allows him to make toys out of food!
• Trent's Dad threatening to ship him out to Fresno is he doesn't stop using a pacifier in "Trent the Baby".
• "PBJ" has a girl named Katie argue with her dad about having peanut butter on her sandwich. At one point, her dad tells her that he knows she misses her mom, implying that she's dead or out of their lives... then she comes into the house after her daytrip to Wisconsin.
  Dad: Katie, I know you miss your mom, I know it's been hard without her, but we really need to start working together as a team if we want to tackle these larger issues—
  Mom: I'm back, from my daytrip from Wisconsin!
  Katie: Mom!
  Dad: Did you get cheese hats?
  Mom: You bet your sweet ass I got cheese hats.
  Katie: Dope Mom!
• There's a darkly humourous bit in "Lima Bean Man" where the titular man is going through a Madness Mantra about how he hopes his wife isn't dead, and it cuts to Sabrina happily dancing like it's a whimsical little song.
• Richard's grandpa tries to teach Richard how to wash his hands in "Five", but right before they get started, Richard eats the soap.
  Grandpa: Well Richard, I hope you're well and proud, you just bought yourself two dirty hands.
  • Then after thinking about what he should do with Richard, he suggests that they go outside and pick up bugs.
• "How Tall Are You?" has the guy in the video go back and forth between being the tall one and the short one. Eventually, he decides that his height is medium. How does he show this? By turning into a medium sized drink cup and getting drunk by a fat kid for the remaining half of the video.
• A kid asks his mom why he misses people who hurt him in "hey mom". Her response?
  Mom: ...That's because you're a dummy, okay? Dumb little— stupid little dum-dum.
• Benny Worm is treated like a celebrity by everyone in his music video, despite the fact that he's just a small worm that speaks in screams (although captions are provided)
• "Seltzer" focuses on an old lady trying to figure out where her seltzer went. After failing to find it, she steals her husband Dale's root beer.
  Dale: What are you yelling about? Hey! That's my root beer!
  Wife: I'm just as upset as you are! I don't wanna drink this!
  Dale: Huh?
  Wife: Where's my SELT-ZER DALE?
  Dale: Huh?
  Wife: SELT-ZER!
  Dale: I'll show you whe—
  Wife: My Seltzer water!
  Dale: Huh? I'll show you where your seltzer water went when you show me where my root beer went!
  Wife: I don't drink your root beer Dale!
  Dale: You're drinking it right now!
  Wife: Because my seltzer's gone!
  Dale: Huh?
  Wife: Dale!
  Dale: What?
  Wife: I don't drink your root beer!
  Dale: What's that then?
  Wife: (Beat) Your root beer!
  Dale: (while his wife is talking over him) OH IT'S MY ROOT BEER NOW?!
  Wife: (While her husband is saying the above line)B-but I couldn't find my seltzer Dale!
  Dale: Huh?
• "Dining In" is about a man whose wife is asking him to make dinner. When he offers to have spaghetti for dinner, she points out that they had spaghetti two nights ago. So in his frustration, he makes a new meal for dinner. But then it turns out that he just altered the spaghetti from the other night. His response?
  Husband: I added salt!
  • Some people in the comments pointed out that the spaghetti was audibly crunchy, which makes you wonder How much salt did he put in the spaghetti?!
• "Picnic" Has a couple feeding a bird a piece of gum. And while an old lady chews them out for it, the bird chews the gum rapidly in the background.
• While "Goldie (2020)" is mostly a Tear Jerker song, there's one point during the song where the old man's daughter interrupts him to say that dinner's almost ready. His response?
  The Old Man: Oh, dope!
• There's one scene in "Good Morning Blondie" where Jack's (fictional) girlfriend/wife has gaping eyes, and Jack simply looks at her with a mildly confused face.

Albums and Extended Songs

• "Gettin' My Mom On" mostly focuses on Jack doing motherly things like going to JC Penny's and eating Special K, but at the beginning, there's a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment involving selling a knife to a bee with the promise that it won't sting him, complete with the video showing a live action bee paying Jack for said knife.
  • Then during the next verse we hear Jack yell "Ow!", implying that the bee did not keep it's promise.
• In the Hilo Trailer, a caption that appears on the TV says "CRAZY DUDE EATS A GRAPE TWICE".
• The singer in "Two Time" confesses his feelings to someone he likes at one point, but then he rejects her because of the way she licks her envelopes.
• This one part of Those Eggs Aren't Dippy Extended
  Semen and sine waves
  • And this too
  Who terrified my tenants and evacuated love without a netting in the setting?
• Oh and speaking of extended Micropop songs, there is also a funny part in There's Something Happening
  You're a poster child and I'm like Thomas Edison
• The sheer fact that Hamantha's name is a Punny Name.

Live Shows

• Everytime Jack said the title for his live exclusive song "The Song Of Love", for example...:

Jack: This song is called "Love Is A Great This Big Thing That Is The Biggest Thing You Ever Did See And It Is Bigger Than The World And Bigger Than Stars It's Called The World It's The Song Of Love"

• There's also the fact that the full song title always changes at every show, meaning that the joke always stays fresh.
• Not funny enough? Before he even sings it, he funnily interacts with audience, like helping audience think about love by guiding through a meditation.

• Speaking of Live Shows, a Running Gag at his shows is that he'll carry around a gallon of water to drink and label it "CLEAR MILK".
  • Adds another layer of humor when Forrest Kos from Spish took a swig of "CLEAR MILK" and he then jokingly realized that it was actually clear milk. This was seen in the improvisement live show.
• At one live show, Jack told a joke about how he was walking down the street and saw a guy with a really nice Primanti Bro's sandwich. When he told the guy that he had a nice Primanti Bro's sandwich, this was the response Jack got:
  Jack (as the sandwich guy): THAT'S NOT A PRIMANTI BROTHER'S SANDWICH! THAT'S MY MOTHER!
• At Rhythm & Brews Festival, Jack told a joke that doubled as a Call-Back to the Primanti joke, that told the story of how he was walking down the street and saw a guy with a huge pair of shoes. And when he asked the guy about his huge shoes, Jack then got this response from The Shoe Guy:

  Jack, who portrays as The Shoe Guy: THOSE ARE NO SHOES! THAT'S MY MOTHER!

• The time where Jack got rained out of a concert. Did he let it stop him from playing? Not at all. He ended up taking shelter at a local Burger King and performed a small concert for the people there. Overlaps with Heartwarming due to Burger King letting him make a concert regardless of the rain.
  • It was made even funnier when he was singing about how Burger Kind took him in, and suddenly a loud noise came from the kitchen. Jack's response?
  Jack: (Beat)... On the drums!
• This video of him in this basement transmissions might seem ordinary at first, until you see him sing "You Are My Sunshine" to his fans.
  • Also you noticed Jack covered his head with his shirt at the start? Cue the audience's laughter.
• "Existential Genius" is about a someone that overthinks things and gets worked up over it, but then it switches over to explaining how they spend time masturbating, watching ESPN, and eating Chex Mix.
  • There's also the fact that Jack encourages the audience to sing along only for that part.
• There's one point during The Matei Song where Jack says this gem of a line:
  Jack: Alright wait! Before we get too far... (music stops) What's this song about?
  • Also in the intro, when Jack counts, he ends up losing count. It's easy to feel a little sorry for him, but it's still funny.
• During his live improv show, he was singing "Death is Coming For You (Not Me)", and he asked a girl in the audience how she felt about death coming for her. Her response?
  Jack: What do you say?
  Girl: Dude I'm like 13!
• During the same show, he was performing "Love Bucket" while people jumped around him. Then he screams this line:
  Jack: IT'S BEEN, SO SO LONG! I MISS YOU SO MUCH! AHHH! I HATE THIISS!
• In the same live show again, he told another joke about going on a date, and when he was told to go to Primanti Brothers, he said:
  Jack: Primanti Brothers? I barely know it!

Joose, Zaki, and other miscellaneous work

• "The Big One" is a surf rock-esque song about surfing on the beach.Then we get this line:
  There's a shark!
  I'm the shark.
  Get off my sand!
• "Depression is Cool" is basically a little funny song, until this line shows:
  DEPRESSION IS COOL, LET'S FUCK IN MY MOM'S CAR!
• In one live performance of Kickback from Joose, Jack ends up hugging a guy and the audience finds it to be very touching… and then Jack proceeds to flash his chest to the guy (it happens around the 30 second mark).
  • The real kicker is that Alex (the guitarist of Joose,) imitates a catcall whistle on his guitar in response to what went down.
• In another live performance of Joose, he ends up saying this:
  Jack: We're all going to, all sing together tonight, into a special place I like to call AAAAEEEUUUOOO!

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