three-wishes
Explanation
The Joke
A man encounters a genie and begins asking for the standard three wishes — vast wealth, true love — but the genie cuts him off with "Nope." It turns out that the last person who found the lamp used one of their wishes to decree that the next person to find it would only get a box of raisins. The genie hands over the raisins. The man asks if the genie also found it amusing that the raisins are the gift, and the genie replies, "I try to follow the spirit of the request."
The Humor
The comic subverts the classic "three wishes" genie trope by introducing meta-wish abuse — a previous wisher used their power not for personal gain but to troll the next person. The humor escalates when the genie reveals a degree of complicity, admitting he tries to "follow the spirit of the request," implying he finds it funny too. This plays on the well-known genie trope of interpreting wishes creatively or maliciously, except here the genie is cooperating with a prank set up by a predecessor. The raisins are an especially anticlimactic "prize," making the contrast with the expected vast wealth and true love all the more absurd.