Why did the chicken cross the road?
It was startled by a loud noise and crossed the road to get away from what it thought was a predator.
It was startled by a loud noise and crossed the road to get away from what it thought was a predator.
Anti-humor is a type of indirect humor that involves the joke-teller delivering something which is deliberately not funny, or lacking in intrinsic meaning. The practice relies on the expectation on the part of the audience of something humorous, and when this does not happen, the irony itself is of comedic value.