Lippit Incongruity Humor

After reading Lippit's "Humor and Incongruity," I have come to the conclusion that I do not find incongruous humor funny. While at first forgetting what incongruous humor was, the article refreshed my memory. Whilst reading, I was reminded of times when my friends or family members have tried telling me these types of jokes, and instead of laughing, I gave them a blank stare. Similarly, while reading the incongruous joke examples provided, I stayed in my spot confused and unamused.  Maybe it was because I didn't understand the topics in the jokes. I choose to believe that it is because there is no connection that I don't find the joke to be funny. I like jokes that I can "understand." If there seems to be no connection, then there essentially is no point. Anyone can put two random things together in that sense and expect it to be funny. For example, saying "I ate a cheeseburger. It started snowing," is putting two incongruous things together. However, its not funny in my opinion because it doesn't make any sense. Schopenhauer's theory states that "two or more real objects are thought through one concept, and the identity of the concept is transferred to the objects; it then becomes strikingly apparent from the entire difference of the objects in other respects, that the concept was
only applicable to them from a onesided point of view. It occurs just as often, however, that the incongruity between a single real object and the concept under which, from one point of view, it has rightly been subsumed, is suddenly felt." Reading that again, it still further confuses me as to what the point of incongruous humor is. Instead of continuing to wrap my mind around it, I believe it is better for me to say that I don't understand Incongruity humor and I don't like it.