Funny T-Shirts That Make Use Of The Absurd

The act of laughing is just as natural as snow falling on the mountains or a stream bubbling down its path to the ocean. Laughter is key for humans to vent out anxiety and refresh the mind. It is a natural social response that indicates commonality amongst a group and can show relief at the passing of danger. When you mix the absurd into the pot, the whole equation suddenly gets really weird. The laughter that absurdity induces is often laced with confusion, and I absolutely love it. This is why the funny t-shirts I wear are always extremely off-kilter and absurd.

Funny t-shirts are, if you’ll excuse the pun, a funny thing. When you usually want to share a joke, you know your audience and you know what joke may work on some friends and not on others. When you wear a funny t-shirt, you let that joke hang in the air indefinitely. You wait until someone snatches it from the air, examines it, and then you wait to see if they laugh. It is a system based on pure faith that your funny t-shirt is hilarious enough to make anyone laugh, regardless of their comedy preference.

This blind faith in the observer’s ability to find your funny t-shirts humorous is why I dig the obtuse and the absurd. Even if someone doesn’t laugh outright, I find that puzzled expression to be just as good as an outright laugh. The great thing about absurdist humor is that it makes the recipient’s brain change gears very suddenly. The result is just as fun for the joke giver as the one getting it. Telling someone the sky is purple, just to see them surge up with the response, “No it is not!” is gratifying to me.

There was a French playwright in the 1950′s named Eugene Ionesco who was labeled an author in the Theatre of the Absurd. His plays were insane gibberish that spoke on social issues and the lack of communication amongst people in everyday speech. Considered a great playwright by the theatre community, he did some great work that is still performed to this day. With plays full of such insanity that you can’t help but laugh in confusion, I wonder what Ionesco would have worn absurd, funny t-shirts today just like I do.

Absurdity is an art form. It is a mystery because of its irregularity to normal comedy. People have to actually work to understand the joke, and many people are simply too lazy to appreciate it these days. Can you imagine a world where anything could happen? Pioneers like Ionesco and the guys from Monty Python could, and they invited you to come and join them. Funny t-shirts are something simple that anyone can wear, but when you mix the truly absurd into the fray…well, then the hippos really will have won.

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