I majored in nursing. I had to drop it. I ran out of milk.

Tenuta’s joke hinges on a deliberate misunderstanding of “nursing” as both a college major (the medical profession) and the act of breastfeeding. By treating the academic program as if it literally required milk, she performs a classic one-liner misdirection: a plausible setup (“I majored in nursing”) followed by an absurd, literalized punchline (“I ran out of milk”). The humor also plays into her stage persona—cheerfully skewering earnest self-improvement narratives and the seriousness of career talk by collapsing it into bodily, domestic imagery. The line exemplifies stand-up’s economy: a compact pun that satirizes education, professionalism, and expectations about women’s roles.