“3 people on an island”

 “3 people on an island”

?? Pacing. Also known as “the rule of three.” I am sure you have
frequently heard of the jokes involving 3 people of different
nationalities. And that is an instance of pacing. It works in this
way: the first 2 subjects are reasonable, albeit increasingly
unbelievable, but the third delivers an extreme conflict. You
probably have read jokes starting with “3 people on a train” or
“3 people on an island”…
Here’s another one which you might have seen before:
One day 3 people were stuck on an island with cannibals.
The cannibals said, "If you do what we say, we won’t kill
you". So the 3 people followed the orders from the
cannibals.
The cannibals said, "Go into the forest and pick 10 pieces
of the first kind of fruit you see".
So the first person came back out of the forest with 10
apples. The cannibals said, "Stick the apples up in your ass
without making a facial expression". The person then
frowned in pain after the second apple, so the cannibals
killed him.
The second person came back out of the forest with 10cherries. The cannibals said, "Put the cherries up your ass
without making a facial expression". The person then
started laughing on the tenth cherry, so they killed him.
In heaven, the person with apples asked the person with
cherries "why did you start laughing at the tenth cherry?
You were almost there". The person replied, "I saw the
third person come out with pineapples."
?? Stereotype and insider jokes. We laugh usually because we know
something is not true and sometimes we laugh because we
realize that the description is exactly right. We find it funny
because “it was not supposed to be like that, but it is indeed like
that!” (if you know what I’m talking about.) Again, conflict.
Such stereotyping jokes can be simply created by telling the
plain truth, as Mark Twain said, “Get the facts first. You can
distort them later.”
?? Superiority, stupidity, absurdity. These perhaps belong to an
altogether different category of reasons for laughter. Here we
laugh because we feel good about ourselves, such as when we
compare ourselves to stupid acts or absurd ideas. This is also
why we don’t tend to laugh (as hard) when stupidity befalls on
ourselves.