Sniffnoy comments on The Orange Head Joke - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Anatoly_Vorobey 25 January 2011 08:33PM

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Comment author: Broggly 26 January 2011 09:16:27PM 3 points [-]

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

Comment author: Sniffnoy 27 January 2011 03:07:27AM 2 points [-]

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...