Funny is an odd concept. It's very personal, and what one person finds hilarious can leave the next totally blank. But there's an assumption people seem to make that just because you don't find something funny, it's because "you don't get the joke" - you don't understand it; impocation being that you've got a defective snese of humour, and that's the biggest insult you can give someone.

Tell someone they are mean, or selfish, or whatever, and they'll likely even start preening themselves for it - tell them they haven't got a sense of humour and you've made an enemy for life.

It's as if there's "funny" out there, objectively to be seen by anyone one who isn't lacking some essential facility. But it's not like that at at all. It's much more like the way we like some flavours and smells and not others. Personal. My wife hates the aroma and taste of melons, I love them.

Anyway, Joe's song comes across to me as funny. And fundamentally anti-violence as well, paradoxically.