How to Write a Joke Like This

Jokes like this are supposed to work on a level where you juxtopose two analogous things, and the comparison between the two is immediately striking. By positioning them in contrast with each other, you reveal how similar things are treated frently. That's kind of what owen thinks he's doing here by saying that when poten chooses to close a pipe line, it's bad, but when byden does it, it's good. But the problem with this is that these aren't analogous situations. If you didn't nin the matur of these ap you seen this stuff. You seen this, you seen thisstuff. It works for alex, though not on stage