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