A physicist, an engineer, and a statistician go hunting. They see a stag and the physicist takes the first shot. He misses by three feet to the left. The engineer goes next. He misses by three feet to the right. The statistician shouts out, "Score!"

Three logicians are out for dinner. The waiter comes around and asks if everyone would like some water. The first logician says, "I don't know." The second logician says, "I don't know." And the third logician says, "Yes, thank you. We'd all like water."

我在你的Facebook主页上发布了这个，但它值得重复。
A Zen priest orders a hot dog: "Make me one with everything."
I like this joke (also simple with just 2 parts) because of the incongruous picture of a vegetarian man of the cloth ordering a hot dog, then the pun on Zen oneness with the universe and a loaded weenie. It takes about one-half a second to fully comprehend the punchline, but a sort of smug feeling overtakes you and you will laugh despite yourself.
顺便说一下，没有什么比忘记或吹掉笑话的笑点更糟糕的了。即使你后来记得，这也不好玩。

This presentation by Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of the New Yorker, is funny, and he gives an astute analysis of what is funny and why:
http://youtu.be/FKxaL8Iau8Q

There were two peanuts walking through Central Park, One was assaulted. =

I think you have invented a new and exciting literwawy genwe. JP

Nice joke, and you are absolutely right about forgetting punch lines. Sometimes I remember the punchlines but forget the set-up. That's no fun either. JP

好笑话。但你的分析是什么?练习:用同样的三个字写一个关于进酒吧的笑话。JP

This is a terrific talk! Thanks. Everyone should watch the video. Several theories of humor are brought up, which we should dissect.

我喜欢的那种幽默。

This is from Kant's Critique of Judgement. There are actually three jokes, which I have highlighted for those who might not want to wade through the theory..

§ 54.: Remark?
. . . . .所有变化的自由的感觉(没有设计的基础)令人满意，因为它促进了健康的感觉。在理性的判断中，我们对理性的对象，甚至对理性的满足，都可能得到满足，也可能得不到满足;而后者可以上升到爱的高度，虽然我们对客体不感兴趣，至少不感兴趣与爱的程度成正比。我们[222]可以把这种感觉的自由发挥细分为运气的发挥[运气的游戏]、音调的发挥[音乐的游戏]和思想的发挥[机智的游戏]。第一种需要一种兴趣，不管是出于虚荣还是自私;然而，这远不如我们如何努力获得它所引起的兴趣大。第二阶段只需要感觉的变化，所有的感觉虽然没有达到感情的程度，但都与感情有关，并能激发审美的思想。第三种说法仅仅来自于判断中表象的改变;的确，通过它，不会产生任何与它有关的思想，但头脑却因此而活跃起来。
. . . . In music this play proceeds from bodily sensations to aesthetical Ideas (the Objects of our affections), and then from these back again to the body with redoubled force. In the case of jokes (the art of which, just like music, should rather be reckoned as pleasant than beautiful) the play begins with the thoughts which together occupy the body, so far as they admit of sensible expression; and as the Understanding stops suddenly short at this presentment, in which it does not find what it expected, we feel the effect of this slackening in the body by the oscillation of the organs, which promotes the restoration of equilibrium and has a favourable influence upon health.
在任何事物中，凡是要引起一种活泼的、惊心动魄的笑声的，必定有一种荒谬的东西(因此，理智是无法满足于此的)。笑是一种感情，起因于紧张的期望突然化为乌有〔224〕这种转变对知性来说当然是不愉快的，但却间接地给予知性暂时非常积极的享受。因此，表象的原因必然在于表象对身体的影响，以及表象对精神的反射作用。事实上，并不是通过表象在客观上成为一种满足的对象(因为一个虚幻的期望怎么可能得到满足呢?)，而仅仅是通过表象作为一种单纯的游戏，使身体的重要力量达到平衡。
Suppose this story to be told: An Indian at the table of an Englishman in Surat, when he saw a bottle of ale opened and all the beer turned into froth and overflowing, testified his great astonishment with many exclamations. When the Englishman asked him, ?What is there in this to astonish you so much?? he answered, ?I am not at all astonished that it should flow out, but I do wonder how you ever got it in.? At this story we laugh, and it gives us hearty pleasure; not because we deem ourselves cleverer than this ignorant man, or because of anything else in it that we note as satisfactory to the Understanding, but because our expectation was strained [for a time] and then was suddenly dissipated into nothing. Again: The heir of a rich relative wished to arrange for an imposing funeral, but he lamented that he could not properly succeed; ?for? (said he) ?the more money I give my mourners to look sad, the more cheerful they look!?2 When we hear this story we laugh loud, and the reason is that an expectation is suddenly [225] transformed into nothing. We must note well that it does not transform itself into the positive opposite of an expected object?for then there would still be something, which might even be a cause of grief?but it must be transformed into nothing. For if a man arouses great expectations in us when telling a story, and at the end we see its falsehood immediately, it displeases us; e.g. the story of the people whose hair in consequence of great grief turned gray in one night. But if a wag, to repair the effect of this story, describes very circumstantially the grief of the merchant returning from India to Europe with all his wealth in merchandise who was forced to throw it overboard in a heavy storm, and who grieved thereat so much that his wig turned gray the same night?we laugh and it gives us gratification. For we treat our own mistake in the case of an object otherwise indifferent to us, or rather the Idea which we are following out, as we treat a ball which we knock to and fro for a time, though our only serious intention is to seize it and hold it fast. It is not the mere rebuff of a liar or a simpleton that arouses our gratification; for the latter story told with assumed seriousness would set a whole company in a roar of laughter, while the former would ordinarily not be regarded as worth attending to.
值得注意的是，在所有这些情况下，玩笑必须包含一些能够欺骗一时的东西。因此，当幻觉消散时，大脑会回过头来再试一次，因此通过快速交替的紧张和放松，它会被猛地拉回来，进入一种振荡的状态。因为绷紧的脐带似乎是突然(而不是逐渐)放松的，所以[226]必然会引起一种精神运动，以及与之相协调的身体内部运动，这种运动即使在鼓舞我们的同时，也会不由自主地持续下去，直至疲惫(这种运动的效果有利于健康)。
For if we admit that with all our thoughts is harmonically combined a movement in the organs of the body, we shall easily comprehend how to this sudden transposition of the mind, now to one now to another standpoint in order to contemplate its object, may correspond an alternating tension and relaxation of the elastic portions of our intestines, which communicates itself to the diaphragm (like that which ticklish people feel). In connexion with this the lungs expel the air at rapidly succeeding intervals, and thus bring about a movement beneficial to health; which alone, and not what precedes it in the mind, is the proper cause of the gratification in a thought that at bottom represents nothing.? Voltaire said that heaven had given us two things to counterbalance the many miseries of life, hope and sleep.1 He could have added laughter, if the means of exciting it in reasonable men were only as easily attainable, and the requisite wit or originality of humour were not so rare, as the talent is common of imagining things which break one?s head, as mystic dreamers do, or which break one?s neck, as your genius does, or which break one?s heart, as sentimental romance-writers (and even moralists of the same kidney) do.??

Great joke and good analysis!

That first joke was right up my alley. Short and sweet :) Best regards - Jan

哈哈，第二个太搞笑了!我喜欢把我的想法写在纸上，我跟踪英国的课程作者，发现许多有趣的写作。