I fear you and OG have missed the point on that particular gag (apologies if not ...

... but hear me out).

The Hamburger joke is obviously anti-humour: what you're laughing at is the way he's so inept at constructing a joke in a fashion that is commonly understood.

For example, everyone knows the joke, "Q. What do you get if you cross a kangaroo with a sheep? A. A woolly jumper."

Now, that's a s**t joke. All jokes of that ilk are s**t. However, stand-up comics were peddling them for years before alt comedy blew them away.

Hamburger derives his laugh from being a truly inept old-style stand-up comic. Thus the humour comes from the fact that he can't even structure the classic "What do you get if you cross X with Y" joke correctly. The cras offensiveness - not to mention preposterously outdated - nature of the reference - reinforces the absurdity and ineptitude of the joke.

That's what you laughing at. Not the fact that he's making a homophobic "gag" at the expense of Elton John.

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot on March 20th 2007 at 15:28:55

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