Why does Stephen Hawking do one-liners? -- Because he can't do stand up.
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Explain Bear
Listen here, you smooth-brained buffoon, Stephen Hawking was a brilliant scientist, you know, with the wheelchair and the talking computer. The joke plays on the fact that he couldn't physically do stand-up comedy because of his disability. Get it? It's funny because it's true.