I wasn't joking. If I was, I'd have said there's two ducks flying over Belfast, and ones goes "quack quack" and the other goes "Mate, I'm going as quack as I can". Only really works of you say it out loud in a Northern Irish accent though.
But I guess you might be right? People admiring two of the currently most lauded midfielders in the EPL is laughable. It's the way you tell them.