I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family.

If this joke emitted radiation, it would be measured in kiloDads per second.

Shared pain is half the pain, thank you all for putting in the effort.
Not great, not terrible

They don't even need to be male or live in the US or even work in film. Anyone with a job title that says "director" would qualify.

Yeah but in practice it's only going to be middle-aged men with kids who would say such a thing.
Source: am middle-aged man with kids who says things.
Yes, but you go ahead and construct a description of that scene where the word "director" and "cut" do not show up twice. The chuckle the reader hopefully has comes from completing the reverse construction they have to do. We can enhance their success rate by starting that reverse construction from a known common base, such as a well known cultural reference.
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Yes. I specifically engineered it to be easily digestable while eliciting at least 2 GPT (groans per teenager) if delivered over an average dinner table.

Why would they need to be male and/or middle aged? Couldn't anyone who is a director and carving a turkey make this dumb joke?

I think dad-jokes are by their nature unfortunately limited to the group I have described. Every other kind of person makes them, they're just common bad jokes.
EDIT: ...also I just went upstairs, threw some logs into the stove and stared at the flames for a good five minutes. What is it, that makes some people on feddit take something, strip away everything obviously core about it until some side aspect remains which they then get furiously angry about? Rest assured, I did not get up this morning and spent my morning cuppa devilishly plotting on how to enforce the patriarchy one more day. I do however love the awkward dynamics behind dad-jokes and imagining one requires the one setting I know them in which is one overconfident dad (who is accomplished at his job but refuses to accept, that doesn't make him a master of everything), an arbitrary number of teenaged children and maybe a wife that loves the guy despite his attempts at humour. That's where that thing thrives. If in your head it's better to play the whole thing out with two deeply in love but very differently aged café owners who admire each other secretly across the street but dare not meet each other because, of course, dog person and cat person, you do that, however, I can't quite get it to work for myself with that.
- I think dad-jokes are by their nature unfortunately limited to the group I have described. Every other kind of person makes them, they're just common bad jokes.
  I am going to have to disagree with you there. Dad jokes is an entire genre of jokes in and of itself. It transcends age and gender; it’s all about the attitude.
  Check out Mom’s Dad Jokes on Instagram to see what I mean.
  Also, my 10-year-old son loves telling dad jokes. He hates when I tell dad jokes, but he loves telling them.
- furiously angry
  I see people asking why male + middle aged is relevant. I don't see anyone furiously angry.
- They are dad jokes, not bad jokes!
[explaining a joke is like] dissecting a frog
- The real meat of the joke is on the inside?
Have you never watched TV and movies?! Only a man can carve a Thanksgiving turkey. Had they not specified middle aged men, I might have thought about a young woman cutting a turkey, and that would be such a ridiculous concept that I would have TOTALLY missed the directors cut punchline! No, no, the joke is FAR more effective when it reinforces a stereotype that pretty much only exists in fiction.
EDIT: Guess the sarcasm wasn't thick enough.

I've never thought of this, even though I make the turkey every year.

Thank you for the inspiration

Are you a director? That may be why. You’re not a writer. A writer probably calls it a writer’s strike.
You are very welcome. Cherish the eye-rolling.

Idk whether or not this is stolen, it's the first time I'm reading it and it made me lol out loud.

I was lazily scrolling through my Jellyfin library and thought "heh, Director's Cut. Everything that guy does in the kitchen is a Director's Cut." So, while that's certainly not a new thought, it was new to me.