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IIRC that was all there was to the post. Anyways this joke is similar to the joke OP shared.
It combines a joke and a well known logical contradiction.
The original joke referenced is "the great clown Pagliacci". It goes
And the logical contradiction referenced is "the barber paradox". It goes
Thus the punchline of that joke is that the troubled man is the barber. Furthermore it also explained why the barber is troubled as he is a paradox.
No I got that it ending like that was intentional, I was just wondering if "shaving off the ending" was the joke because the person was a barber. I hadn't heard of that barber paradox. It's pretty funny now that I get it