The overwhelming majority of musical "jokes" and "humorous ones" have practically nothing in common with humor in our understanding. Such well-known plays like Joke (Badinerie, from Orchestral Suite No. 2, B Minor) by Johann Bach, Humoresque (Humoresque, op. 101, No. 7) by Antonin Dvorak or Humeresque (op. 10, No. 5) by Sergei Rachmaninov, can cause admiration, but it is unlikely to cause just laughter - even with a very complex chain of cultural associations. These works are rather peculiar "jokes of geniuses", written easily, not quite seriously. They should be treated with the same ease, but it is not necessary to laugh at the same time.
