Comedy

[Taem]

The "correct" answer is never what you think. The humor is in showing the reader how ignorant he is because of how "obvious" the answer is. If the reader already knew the answers to these jokes, they would fail to amuse.

Many of these types of jokes (word play, or misdirection) are funny because the listener wouldn't know the right answer, or didn't think about it in the way the comic presents it. It's not an ignorance or buffoon thing.

Comic say, "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

Lets analyze this for a moment. This statement, while a truism, still implies that you wont receive the experience that could potentially be beneficial to you until after the objective has passed, meaning without this "experience", you didn't have what you "need[ed]". Why is it funny? Using your reference to AI in your other post, it's because the joke reminds us of times where we were inexperienced at something and failed in one way or another, and that everybody must "experience" situations to fully understand them. Again, the joke merely points to ones disabilities.

or, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

A clever play on words. In its most obvious and non-humorous state, this joke is not a joke at all, but merely a statement of fact. The joke takes aim at human logic, that being the readers assumption that being "part of the solution" implies action, not a substance. The joke is in the misunderstanding, or the way the brain processes information, because every time I read it, it brings a smile to my face, yet I know how and why the joke is mean to work. The "misfortune" I keep referring too is in the misunderstanding, and that is what makes the joke "funny".

Another example, "Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. "

We visualize the a poor individual being hugged extremely tightly, but what is funny is its use in describing success.

Yes, the visualization is funny of someone taking to another in a desperate love embrace and being compared to a boa constrictor in the process, but the comedy in it is seeing how desperately this individual is willing to go to score, and being able to relate to that desire from our own experiences. But is this misfortune? I'll have to give it more thought. You may be on to something.

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I don't have a lot of time to respond right now, but I would like to comment:

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EDIT: This comment is to your other post about robots, but it got combined with this one which would be alright if I had quoted you, but I didn't.
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Are you implying humor is an evolutionary, learned process? I suppose this could be proven scientifically when comparing us to animals, however I don't think its as easy to teach as you deem it too be (more on this later). Anyways, I'm intrigued by how the human brain can learn to adapt, and evolve, and your postulation that we simply "made-up" humor as we developed, but why? What purpose did it serve? Can you tell me in all sincerity that our evolved humor was not at the misfortune of others for our own benefit, an almost survival mechanism that perhaps turned into what it is today? Damn... times up (will add more later).