Interesting
Explanation
The Joke
A man approaches a woman who is working on a sculpture and asks what she is doing. She casually explains that she is "surgically acquiring art without the coldness of sculpture." When he asks further, she reveals she is an "antitheogenic, biomorphic, occasionally utilitarian junkrealist" who is trying to "build up an oeuvre of found-object assemblages that, in their aggregate, elicit a visceral, preverbal sense of unity." He realizes she is just describing her hobby in absurdly overwrought academic art-speak.
The punchline comes from the woman listening in, who says "Stop! I wanna play that game all weekend!" -- treating his pretentious artistic description as something entertaining and fun, as if his jargon-filled self-description is itself a form of performance art or a party game.
The Humor
The comic satirizes the tendency in the art world to dress up relatively simple creative activities in layers of impenetrable academic jargon. What might simply be described as "making stuff out of found objects" gets inflated into a paragraph of meaningless buzzwords. The humor works on two levels: first, the absurdity of the jargon itself, and second, the reaction of the bystander who finds the whole display so entertaining that she wants to keep it going all weekend, as if speaking in pretentious art-world language is itself a fun game rather than genuine self-expression.