The Tour of the Absurd

While many of the jokes that have found their way to this archive could be rationalized (i.e. we could even if heavy-handedly, explicate why they are funny), the focus of our jokes this week will be those that are completely absurd and whose humor defies logic. I begin with one that I heard years ago from my wife:

 Boy: Daddy, I want a cookie!

 Father: No hands, no cookie.

Animal Farm...

From one of my favorite comics, Mitch Hedburg, on the differences between frogs and bears: "I like to talk about the differences between frogs and bears. When there’s a frog around I don’t have to hang my sandwiches from a branch. A frog knows they are for me. He’d rather have a fly, ‘cause a fly zigzags and my sandwiches do not. Unless I go like this. When I want some honey on some toast I don’t have to squeeze a plastic frog.” -Mitch Hedberg

Week II: Let the zaniness begin...

Courtesy of Cara B.: Two nuns are riding their bicycles over a bumpy path back to their secluded convent. One nun exclaims to the other, "I've never come this way before," to which the other replies, "I have--it's the cobblestone."

And we're off...

Three men are standing on the rooftop of a skyscraper. The first man says to the second, "There is an invisible trampoline at the bottom of this building, and if you jump off, you won't die but will simply bounce back up," to which the second man replies, "Fine, prove it." The first man darts off the rooftop, plummets down quickly, but sure enough, bounces back up over the ledge joining the other two on the rooftop. The second man exclaims, "That was awesome," and promptly dashes over the edge to his death, splattering across the pavement. The third man turns to the first and says, "Superman, you are such a dick when you're drunk."