Ah, I give up, lets just stick to maths and relationship problems

No! i won't give up.

Here are some more jokes of the same style. Please confirm how many you understood.

Neil.

My wife's gone to the West Indies
-Jamaica?
-No, she went of her own accord.

-My wife's gone to the Indian coast
-Goa?
-Phwoar! I'll say!

-My wife's gone to St Petersburg.
-Is she Russian?
-No, she's taking her time.

-My wife's gone to Northern Italy
-Genoa?
-I should think so, we've been married for 20 years.

-My wife's had an accident on a volcano
-Krakatoa?
-No.
She broke her leg.

-My wife's gone mad in Venezuela
-Caracas
-Yes, absolutely loopy

-My wife's gone to the Welsh border.
-Wye?
-Search me.

-My wife's gone to the botanical gardens.
-Kew?
-Yes, it was rather busy.

-My wife's gone to Malawi
-Lilongwe?
-Yes, about 5000 miles

-My wife's got an upset tummy in Laos
-Inkhazi?
-Yes, constantly.

-My wife's gone on a singing tour of South Korea
-Seoul?
-No, R&B

-My wife caught a cold in the Gulf
-Qatar?
-Yes, she was coughing up greenies for weeks

-My wife had an accident in Slovenia
-Bled?
-like a stuck pig.

-My wife's parents are from Croatia
-Split?
-No, they're still happily married.

-My wife went to a very bad concert in South East Asia
-Singapore?
-Terrible. And the rest of the band sucked too.

-My wife went on a sailing course in Poole
-In Dorset?
-Yes, she'd recommend it to anyone.

-My wife smoked a joint near Manchester
-In Hale?

Neil.

All of those jokes are "jokes of misunderstanding"; in other words, while you asked "Jamaica?" the other person heard "You make her?", and hilarity ensues as a result of the confusion.

That's not the case with the Michael Jackson joke. You can't mishear "What DVD should we get?", and the joke doesn't suggest he did at any rate. And in either case, "getting" something doesn't even remotely allude to sex, so the joke doesn't even begin to allude to his alleged paedophilia! The "joke" has no connection to any exploitable quality of the victim, and in essence completely lacks any kind of humor.

The Jackson joke, especially as told here, isn't funny. (It's "Aladdin", by the way.)

That format actually makes sense and is more along the line of the long list of dumb jokes posted above.

When googling for the proper format of the joke (as the way it was told here wasn't even funny in the least little bit), the first snippet said: The "Aladdin" one was a bit lame. Google knows.

It did to a close enough approximation.

Thank you! Yes, that version does make sense. Now we can clearly see the "misheard what they said" element in action, and how it contributes to hilarity!

I doubt that they consider if funny solely based on the kind of quote you posted there. In fact, I usually find South Park funny - yet that quote was patently unfunny. It's also not the reason South Park is funny.

My god! Neil's right, some people here are humour stunted.

See, ML's is actually funny. I got the first joke. But I didn't think it was funny.

Well, Matthew's version of the joke was at least recognizable as a joke. The version that causes all this discussion here was told as badly as possible. And if you spoil a joke, it's just not funny.

And even Matthew's version isn't that funny because he move in question should be "Agetinalad" and not aladdin.

On the original topic: Innocent until proven guilty, and In dubio pro reo are 2 very important principles. If we start ti question those principles we might get a form of jurisdiction we won't like.

You're all pathetic. You'd be yelling "get 'er done".
Drop your crappy South Park humor for the far superior British Comedy Stylings of Monty Python.

Oh, and Seinfeld.

Instead of laughing at the person who is confused, try laughing at the situation with the characters involved. For example, if you walked into a Seinfeld episode in mid-story near nothing would be funny (unless you have seen the episode before). The same with Monty Python. Through the clever use of character and plot development, humor can be generated (with the help of witty placement).

Will & Grace is about gay people, used to ammuse the crowd. Does anybody else find this .. sickening? Is that what people want to watch? Over Star Trek?! How can blowing objects up be less cool than gay people talking about how much sex they're not getting? (Or whatever it is the show is actually about.)

I couldn't leave him out. I've found that only his show (and comedy routines) are funny, but his character in the show is actually quite dull (well, the character is better than a lot other shows - heh). It's Kramer and George that really make it up.

The original joke went like this:

To describe the second 'joke' interpretation, in a long winded fashion:

• Sepiroth was at Michael Jackson's house

• Sepiroth suggested they get a DVD

• Michael Jackson neither confirmed nor denied his feelings on DVDs such that it did not become the operative plan

• Sepiroth asked Michael what he should get for the evening

• Michael, impliedly rejecting the idea of a DVD suggested they get a lad in

Since it's one of those 'jokes' that relies on you thinking certain things are happening and then suddenly discovering an alternate interpretation then this all makes sense as a 'joke' and gives the story plausability. Here is another story in a similar vein:

Me: I believe that tonight we should order Chinese food. What should we get?
My friend: I think we should get Italian

You seem to be extending the undisputed argument that it is a poor joke to argue that it doesn't make sense. Which it does.

I find George to be the funniest character. I'm not especially enamoured of Kramer for the simple reason that they seem to find some stupid slapstick thing for him to do almost every episode and I've never found slapstick funny. He's often very funny too though. I don't remember the exact dialogue, but this made me laugh:

Similarly I often find Jerry to be quite funny. His standup segments are very patchy but some of his dialogue is good. I just got season 4 on DVD, literally today, and although I paraphrase again I found the following quite funny:

Also I find a lot of his dialogue with George in the restaurant to be very funny. The character who I find least funny is Elaine, but I'd still keep her in the show.

Yes.

Hey, don't get me wrong. Laughter is good. Silly things are often funny. I wouldn't care about that at all.
What I was really trying to do is defend against people telling us to get a sense of humour! I thought the joke was completely stupid - so did some others; that's why I made the comment that a good sense of humour is not equilvalent to finding every joke funny. I do get the original version of the joke - that isn't the problem; it's just that it is a poor joke. Even the slight modification in ML's version makes the joke so much better. Like with most things, there are good jokes, and there are bad jokes; that joke was a bad joke. (In my opinion, obviously.)

Enough! This whole discussion has become a joke. I'll say no more about it.

yeah, that joke is purely retarted. It's like that greasy kid in grade school that comes up to you (I shall call him Nelson):

Nelson: "Hey did you hear that Michal Jackson Joke?"
Me: "wel.."
Nelson: <says joke> "wah! wah! weh! >SNORT< wah wah weh!"
Me: "..."
Nelson: "get it?! >snort<"
Me:
Nelson: "a-lad-in? >SNORT< a... LAD.... IIN??"
Me:
Nelson: "you're stupid!"

It's one of those jokes.