the.com/absurdist humor
comedy that shrugs at meaning and hands you a cheese sandwich instead.
means humor built from illogical, incongruous, or nonsensical situations rather than jokes with tidy punchlines.
from rooted in the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, where camus and beckett staged a universe with no inherent meaning, and comedians later mined that same void for laughs instead of dread.
philosophical cousinshares its DNA with existentialism, minus the crying
monty pythonbuilt entire sketches on logic collapsing mid-sentence
internet nativesurreal memes are absurdism running on wifi
for instance
waiting for godot — 1953 play where two men wait for someone who never arrives
monty pythons flying circus — 1969 bbc show, ministry of silly walks and all
tim and eric — 2007 adult swim show that weaponized bad green screen
the mighty boosh — 2004 bbc series where a coconut can be a character