Humor is fine, but when several readers don't recognize it as such, the joke obviously isn't based on shared common knowledge. Some people walk away with wrong information, and that isn't helpful.
Tragedy is for those that feel and comedy is for those that think.
Lots of comedy more or less proves it needn't be thoughtful as opposed to emotional. Laugh tracks, or the particular speaking style of a standup comic, are riding on the feelings they invoke. Being surrounded by real laughter also makes things "feel" funnier. Laughter is contagious. Fart jokes and home-video genital injuries get laughs with no real "thinking" component.
Perhaps you're making a point (that eludes me, BTW) by writing clever sounding twaddle. I hope so.
At least we can conclude: Dark humor is for those who both feel and think