This is your tree. This is your tree on drugs. Any questions?

It's really not funny though; there's maybe about a 20% hit rate there that's actually creatively amusing. People tend not to know funny anymore - it's like everything else, you have to have seen the greats new and old to appreciate it. There's certainly formulas that work with traditional jokes, but it's practically impossible to explain why it makes you laugh, or what laughing actually is. Yeah? - we understand what crying is; your emotions overload, and salty water comes out of your eyes - there's some science going on there. Salty water = disinfectant, emotions = blatantly linked to all parts of biochemistry and balance of neurotransmitters etc.
But what the hell is laughing doing - why do combinations of words (concepts, ideas), and types of images, cause the sound that is laughter and the facial and energetic changes that go along with that. Nobody knows, or if they do they ain't saying.

Mushrooms - they make everything fucking hilarious. If you try to stop and think why, then that's funny too, and that sets you off of a separate tangent of concepts-that-trigger-laughing-fits.
I have found, through others, than some people consider humour to be based on enjoying some aspect of others misfortunes - nothing could be further away from what funny is all about though. They've somehow managed to get humor mixed up with sadism; I have no idea why. I think they look at psychotic glee perhaps, and due to similar facial expressions and noises made, conclude that is the same as laughter.

Moreover, humor tends to rely on previously known things - the audience of the humor have to be aware of a whole bunch of other stuff before they hear the jokes or see the skits; topical news, given social assumptions, behaviour patterns shared amoung disparate peoples, things people do but they clearly haven't thought them through.

But at the end of the day, it's really hard to explain why something is funny, just as it is when it's not. The funniest things of all, you haven't a hope of ever explaining why they are so funny - there's too many juxtapositions and way too many other things you'd have to know about previously, and have followed continuously for oh-so-long a time.

Also worth noting - things that make you feel cosy, warm, gooey, smiley - that is NOT the same as funny! They are two distinct types of laughter, as different as each of them are to the psychotic glee of a sadist.

yeah except the part about unfunny, i totally agree.

Just as unfunny as when psycho-droidy posted it at their non-existant-Belgian blog.