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I understand it's a joke, but it's a poorly-formed joke that exposes its writer not understanding the thing they're riffing on, lol.
Would be kind of like making a joke based on a stereotype of NBA players mostly being redheads, with no such stereotype existing, lol.
Jokes necessarily often leave behind details to work.
Here the whole joke is pointing out similarities we see are forced.
And besides, it's obvious the author was intentionally being "wrong", otherwise we'd be suggesting the author assumed the thought-experiment was monkeys who knew language, intentionally typing out great works. That's a pretty useless situation to make up, it doesn't suggest anything interesting.
The joke is that the writer is intentionally misunderstanding.
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