2025-04-22

Set 10 · Episode 715

Ari Matti

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Career avg·2.08 bits/set·4.28 beats/set·0.56 punch density·1.00 tag density·25 sets

This set·1 bit·3 beats·0.29 punch density·0.67 tag density

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[Bit 1]

I was walking home last night, and guys will notice feeling.

You know when you're walking late at night, and you're like behind a woman you don't know,

and you're walking the same direction,

and there's that tension.

She turns left, you turn left.

She turns right, you turn right.

And you're kind of in a rush.

But you also don't wanna seem like an assailant.

It gets really strange.

You know when you notice that she knows

you're there as well?

The body language changes a little bit.

They start clutching the bag.

Warming up the hamstrings.

And then there's a really tense moment.

You know like when they finally look.

And now you like gotta try really hard to not walk like a rapist.

Would a rapist do this?

Then you take an alternate route,

and then you reappear from another street.

You gotta be like, "Don't worry, I just live where you live."

Bit 1 · Beat 1

Beat Details

Beat Premise

“Fear response becomes so extreme that she warms up hamstrings.”

Joke Type

hyperbole

Lines

setupI was walking home last night, and guys will notice feeling.

setupYou know when you're walking late at night, and you're like behind a woman you don't know,

setupand you're walking the same direction,

setupand there's that tension.

setupShe turns left, you turn left.

setupShe turns right, you turn right.

setupAnd you're kind of in a rush.

setupBut you also don't wanna seem like an assailant.

setupIt gets really strange.

setupYou know when you notice that she knows

setupyou're there as well?

setupThe body language changes a little bit.

setupThey start clutching the bag.

punchlineWarming up the hamstrings.