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> Even 6 year olds don't understand humour at all. Very similar to LLMs they know the shape of a joke from hearing them before, but they aren't funny in the same way LLM jokes aren't funny.

For further examples see a great deal of documentation here: https://www.tumblr.com/badkidsjokes

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But some of these are pretty creative, perhaps in an anti-humor sort of way. Seems more of a subversion of joke structures than a lack of understanding.

> A man goes to a doctor's office and says "Doctor, I'm a chicken." And the doctor says "No you're not."

> There are two guys, riding a bike. One is washing his hair. And the other one is not.

> What do you get when you cross a t-rex and a chicken? Nothing but death.

Seems like you stumbled over the concept of the Antiwitz. Congratulations :D

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiwitz

The concept exists in English as well. Kaufman, Norm Macdonald, Isaac Asimov.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor

> Seems more of a subversion of joke structures than a lack of understanding.

Yeah it can be unintentionally funny in that way but children definitely aren't trying to do that. They just don't understand how jokes work.

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