Given that “Why did the chicken cross the road?” is considered the prototypical joke, anti-humour is pretty popular. You may say that a man with an orange for a head is more inherently funny than a chicken, but I would refer you to D Zongker 2006
I really have to wonder if most people actually understand that “why did the chicken cross the road?” is supposed to be anti-humor, rather than being just a well-known “joke” that clearly must be a joke since everyone says it is one, even if they don’t understand why. I really doubt that most people understand the notion of anti-humor when they learn it...
Given that “Why did the chicken cross the road?” is considered the prototypical joke, anti-humour is pretty popular. You may say that a man with an orange for a head is more inherently funny than a chicken, but I would refer you to D Zongker 2006
Oh, a paper written in chicken. (PLIF was a great comic, incidentally.)
That specific comic isn’t available there anymore for some strange reason, but you can find it here instead.
I really have to wonder if most people actually understand that “why did the chicken cross the road?” is supposed to be anti-humor, rather than being just a well-known “joke” that clearly must be a joke since everyone says it is one, even if they don’t understand why. I really doubt that most people understand the notion of anti-humor when they learn it...
I always thought of the chicken joke as more a case of giving a Mathematician’s Answer then anti-humor.