wackyshenanigans reblogged your quote “So a dog walks into the forest and he sees a whale and says “aren’t you supposed to be in the ocean?” and the whale says...”
It could be “why did the chicken cross the road” type humour though. Like, the punchline is just a fact.
I never found that joke funny either (it exist in Hebrew). So a quick experiment: “A man walked, walked, walked, walked, walked, fell into a hole. His dad came and scattered sesame all over him”. This is the funniest joke I ever heard. Do you, as an non-Israeli person, find this joke funny?
I’ll take a guess. No.
There’s no pun, no pre-knowledge you have to be aware of to understand this joke, absolutely nothing. So why isn’t it funny to you? If the Russian joke doesn’t have a pun or anything special in it, but he still laughs over it, there must be something. I think the rhythm, the way it sounds in the original language is important and the culture’s kind of humur. My friend once brought her friend from Bulgaria to see Israel. We decided to show him the most believed performance in Israel, Asi and Guri. We couldn’t stop laughing even though we watched it hundreds of times (I’m not fucking with you, everyone watched it at least 10 times) and he didn’t understand why it was funny. When I showed it to an American, she said it was really funny. Maybe the culture’s humur does play a part here..
