Onions and Babies

The humor comes from the unexpected comparison of onions and babies. The setup leads you to expect a gross or shocking answer but it ends up being something very mundane and relatable. The punchline plays on the common experience of crying while cutting onions, creating a funny contrast with what people might expect as the 'difference'.

• Difference
• Onion
• Darkness
• Baby
• Cry
• Cut

• What's the difference between an onion and a dead baby? The baby doesn't cry when you chop it.
• What's the difference between a bay and an onion? I cry when I cut into an onion.
• What’s the difference between an onion and a viola? No one cries when they cut up the viola.
• Only if onions were emo, they'd cut themselves.