That doesn't make it any funnier. In fact, that little tactic is used so much it's even less funny than it used to be -- which wasn' very.
A groaner to me is something that's really stretching it, but still funny. This just isn't funny.
I'll liken it to the movie The Terror of Tiny Town, which is "the world's first and only all-midget musical western." You see that description and say, "That sounds so awful it will be hilarious to watch it!" But when you do, in fact, watch it, you find out it's really just bad, and not in a fun way.
That's your comic.
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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002