Humor is context driven!

Just finished reading - Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar..by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klien. It is about understanding Philosophy through jokes - one hilarious book. A good read on a cross country plane ride. An interesting thing I noticed is that almost all the jokes are not that funny on a stand alone basis - like you would not get a great laugh from your friends if you tell the jokes in a bar - however because the authors build up a context and commentary around every joke before they tell the joke, it sounds very funny. Humor is so much context driven!