It's absurd in such a predictable way though, when every joke is le wacky literalism or I-want-to-die, it becomes rote.
Like, okay, there's the cum betweener, he cums between people. That sure is the opposite of what they said would happen in the first panel. Please clap.
I don't think so, one of the most common theories of why things are funny is it being unexpected, and the art of comedy is disguising a setup so it doesn't seem like a setup until the punchline.