2015-02-06
Explanation
The Joke
A man tells his wife he has been thinking about surgery to enlarge his penis. She calmly says that is fine. He then elaborates that he wants it so big it could be used as a banana boat. His wife responds with a practical objection: she is not using his penis as a boat, and the children certainly are not either. He says "I see," then excuses himself to make a phone call -- presumably to cancel the surgery, or perhaps to find someone else who would appreciate his banana-boat plan.
The Humor
The comic takes the concept of penis enlargement surgery -- already a subject ripe for humor -- and escalates it to an absurd extreme. The wife's initial calm acceptance is funny in itself, but the real joke is the husband's wildly impractical vision of enlarging his penis to the size of an inflatable banana boat. The wife's deadpan, practical objection ("I'm not using your penis as a boat, and the children certainly aren't") treats the absurd proposal as though it were merely a bad logistical plan rather than an insane idea. The humor lies in the gap between the husband's bizarre fantasy and the wife's rational, matter-of-fact dismissal of it on purely practical grounds.