Despite my general disregard for Twitter and its adherents, I very much enjoy AntiJokeCat's brand of humour. His/her gags are funny because they seem to subvert the notion of what a joke is and confound our expectations of what the punchline is going to be, usually in a dark way. Sometimes a genre joke e.g. a racist or sexist one is subverted at the last moment.
- Yo momma's so stupid, she took an IQ test and scored pretty low on it.
- Two muffins are in an oven. After ten minutes at 325 degrees, they were pulled out, allowed to cool, and then eaten.
- What did the homeless man get for Christmas? Hypothermia.
- What's yellow and good at Math? A yellow calculator.
More examples may be found at AntiJokeCat's Twitter page.
Can anyone provide a
better more academic classification of this type of humour aside from 'anti-joke'? I am detecting some
bathos there at the very least.
And where did this deconstructionist humour originate?