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When reality forgets its own punchline and just keeps talking.
means So wildly unreasonable or out of place that it defies common sense, often comically.
from From Latin absurdus, literally out of tune — surdus meaning deaf or harsh-sounding, so absurd started as noise that grated the ear before it grated the mind.
Philosophy stampCamus made it the universe's deadpan silence to human meaning.
Theater genreAbsurdist drama starred Beckett's two men awaiting nobody.
Buried surdusSame root gives math its surd, an irrational root.