THREE REASONS WHY irony is funny

1. Irony is when something ends in a way that is not what is expected, yet entirely related to what comes prior to it. While this is a specific type of humor, it is also the basic structure of most jokes. “Knock! Knock!/Who’s there?/Boo./Boo who?/Oh, don’t cry!” What is being set up is that someone is knocking at the door, and that person is named Boo, and when the person answering to door inquires as to the details of who this particular Boo is the joke reaches the turning point. It turns from a situation where someone is knocking at the door into a situation where one person is comforting the other. Granted, this is a false situation based on a misunderstanding, but it is still a situation that comes out of the ironic turn. Where the joke ends is far from where it begins, but at the same time it is not simply non sequitur.  Listen to as many jokes as you can. You’ll find many have the ironic turn of the situation’s perception right before the punch line.
2. Irony is a test of logic, and people are essentially babies. In order for irony to be understood people need a firm grasp on both the state of something and the state that something should be in. I am going to cite another classic joke. “Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.” The irony is that everyone knows jokes have a set-up and a punch line in which the punch line is relevant to the set-up, but in this joke it is neither. A person needs to both recognize how the team of set-up and punch line work usually and in the instance of this joke to grasp why it is ironic. Once they do this they will laugh, because they have achieved the task inherent in the joke. It is very similar to a baby putting the round peg in the round hole and then smiling. The smile is celebrating the completion of the task, similar to laughing at irony. Granted, my example was poor. Only 8 people have laughed at the chicken crossing the road joke in the history of time.
3. I am not going to end this with an ironic joke.

THREE REASONS WHY being overly specific is funny

1. People like to feel experienced. When you reference a very detailed social situation in life it makes someone feel as if they have gone through a lot. This specifically applies to the hip audience, which is mostly people in their early 20s. Those in this age range are reluctant to admit it, but are desperately trying to run away from their childhood and view themselves as adult. They enjoy jokes that are direct citations to things that can only be related to through living years of a grown-up life. By finding this funny you are not only enjoying yourself but reaffirming that you have experience and are not a child.
2. There is a certain level of absurdity that comes along with going into such extreme detail with something. Like all absurdist humor, it makes people ask, “Why?” In this case it is, “Why is this joke still going on?” It uses the tool of repetition. First a joke is told and is funny. Then it goes on for too long.  And then, when the joke is still going on, it is finally funny again. The length is where the humor is.
3. It reminds people of that time Eric got totally wasted and kept telling everyone about when he went to the strip club and paid for the lap dance where at the end the stripper let him cup her boob. Dude, he just WOULD NOT stop talking about it even though we were all asking him to. Like, who cares if she let him touch her boob. It isn’t like he fucked her. Whatever. Nobody likes Eric anyway.