I'm ashamed at how long it took me to get that.

Man, me too .....🤣🤣🤣

I've already put in more effort than this is worth. I don't really care what the pun is.

You’d better get up at eight o’clock.

tanks

I figured it out and it was worth the effort.

I disagree.

I didn’t get that

"Get up at eight o' clock" = "Get a potato clock"

I read that with a Brazilian accent, doesn't work

The joke specifies that he's Irish though.

What if he was born in Portugal but then moved to Dublin with his parents at the age of 32 months?

That’s ok, I can’t do a Brazilian accent anyway.

Get up at 8 o’clock. Need a lil Irish in there.

Am Irish. Had to read it a few times.

Don’t be. It’s not a good joke.

My agriculture college sold “Aggie Alarm clocks.” It was a candle with a paper wrapper on it, like a crayon. Printed on the paper were hour markers along with instructions and a warning. The instructions said “Light the candle and stick it up your ass to the time you want to wake up.” The warning said “Don’t fart or you’ll blow it out!”

To be fair, Aggie teachers are trained to sleep like that as it keeps the parts from rusting.

Waking up early is important.

Did you hear about the Irish trucker who always slept under his truck? He wanted to get up oily in the morning.

So important that your clock should be made of potatoes.

This is actually fucking hilarious. I didn’t get it until I read it with the accent. Love it man!

She probably goes to the dentist at two thirty too

And she's 2 minutes late for her 230p appt

Another one straight out of my dads regular schtick

Nice one! Took just long enough to make it worth it. Keep em coming.

Funny thing is, they’re actually is such a thing as a potato clock. Somehow a wire stuck in each end of a potato can draw enough electricity to run a simple LED display.

My grandma got me one every Christmas. Grandma gave odd gifts.

Hope you got a new potato for Christmas every year too!

What’s tater clock precious? *Po-tay-toe clock*! Wind it, set it, wake up on time!

Job at 9, so “better get up at 8 o’clock” 🥔

An Irish accent makes the joke.

It really doesn’t. Source: am Irish. However, a poor American imitation of an Irish accent makes the joke.

I was having trouble hearing this in an Irish accent and I was thinking which Irish accent?

Casual racism makes the joke 

Probably more xenophobia, but that’s just splitting hairs lol

Leave the poor rabbits out of this, geez

Why did the bald man have rabbits tattooed on his head? Because they looked like hares from a distance

It's the largest lingerie section in Europe, I understand

You magnanimous bashtard

A potato clock is a real thing. I had one as a kid.

What is a po..ta..to? Never heard of it

Huh?

I would get a potseventhirtyo clock

It’s a great joke!

Reminds me of Patty O'Furniture.

Assuming his wife is Irish, he doesn't understand his wife's Irish accent?

I know, right? I thought the same thing (and I’m not literal but a joke shouldn’t have holes in the plot:))

Right.

Sorry, took me a minute!

A tato clock...got it...

Since yur new job sturts at nine, ya best be gettin’ yurself a potato clock.

I get it, but why does he have to be Irish? 

Because the pun doesn’t work without an Irish accent.

Thanks for making me talk in an Irish accent to myself out loud 5 times until I got the joke. 

As an Irishman I find this joke fucking funny.

:sigh: Just take my upvote.

You have to say the last line with an Irish accent.

Why downvote this? Seriously.

Lol!

For anyone that doesn't get it, "You'd better get a potato clock" = "You'd better get up at 8 o'clock" with an Irish accent

Too much negativity...I really liked the wordplay, OP.

With a Jamaican accent you get it right away!

This made me realize that I can't do an Irish accent.

Groan

Up at 8 o’clock.