Monkey's Fatal Fall

The humor comes from the unexpected and dark answer to a common riddle setup. You expect a silly or playful reason, but instead, it's the grim reality of death. This subverts the usual expectations of a joke.

• Monkey
• Tree
• Dark Humor
• Animal
• Funny
• Death

• Why wasn’t the rabbit jumping? Because he was dead.
• Why did the chicken cross the road? It doesn't matter, he's dead.
• One time there was a squirrel who died. It was funny because the squirrel got dead.
• Why did the orphan fall out of a tree? They thought their parents would catch them.