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I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off me, you two!"
— Emo Philips
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a classic misdirection joke: the setup sounds like heartbreak over infidelity, but the punchline reveals 'crushed' meant something purely physical, being squashed under two people's weight. The comedy relies entirely on that last-second twist upending the sympathetic reading the first half invites.
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