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Q: What are you eating under there?

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Q: What are you eating under there? A: Under where? Q: You are eating underwear? Gross! This is potty humor, an ambush joke, and also a joke based on a pun. The jokester asks a question and hopes that the target says the correct response. The initial question is ambiguous, so there is a chance that the target of the joke will be confused and ask "under where?" If they get a different response such as "what are you talking about?" or "I am not eating anything", then the joke fails completely The pun is based on the similarity of the words "under where" and the word "underwear", which sound very similar. This is the type of joke that little kids might say on the playground. Another version of this joke used by the band "Barenaked Ladies" in their song "Pinch me" I could hide out under there/ I just made you say underwear Which is even less funny than the original joke in my opinion.
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Does your face hurt?

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Q: Does your face hurt? A: No? why? Q: Because it is killing me This is an insult, and also a joke that relies on expectation whiplash. The jokester starts by sounding concerned for the person that they are telling the joke to, however, when the person on the receiving end of this joke responds they are insulted. The insult "It's killing me" is a colloquial phrase indicating that the anteceding thing is causing them distress, so it is assumed that the persons face is ugly enough to cause the jokester distress from seeing it.
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Three vampires

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Three vampire hunt brothers decide to hold a competition to see which one of them is the most powerful The first brother is the strongest. "Watch this," he says, and takes off at nearly 100 miles per hour. Two minutes later, he returns, his mouth covered in blood. "What happened?!" his brothers exclaimed. "You see that mansion over there?" "Yeah?" "Well, I went over there and sucked each and every last family member dry. They are all dead." "Wow!" his brothers say. "As expected, for you are the strongest." The second brother to go is the oldest. "Watch and learn, boys," he says, and takes off even quicker, at 150 miles per hour. Five minutes later, he returns, both his mouth and his neck covered in blood. "What happened?!" His brothers exclaimed. "You see that village over there?" "Yeah?" They said. "Well I went over there and killed every last person in the entire village
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As I get older I remember all the people I’ve lost along the way...

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As I get older I remember all the people I’ve lost along the way I think to myself, maybe a career as a tour guide wasn’t for me. This joke is funny because of a pun - the phrase "lost along the way" normally is used to indicate that something was lost in the process of time, and when used in regards to people the reader expects that the people were lost due to the jokester growing apart from them due to time passing. The ending of the joke indicates that instead of the expected colloquial meaning for the phrase the jokester was literally losing the people that she (or he) was supposed to be leading on tours.
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At a party, a young wife admonished her husband

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At a party, a young wife admonished her husband, “That’s the fourth time you’ve gone back for ice cream and cake. Doesn’t it embarrass you?” “Why should it?” answered her spouse. “I keep telling them it’s for you.” This joke is funny because the husband rudely lied to everyone and told them that his wife was eating a lot of ice cream and cake when he was actually the one that was eating so much ice cream and cake. When people are rude to each other it is often considered funny, and also when people lie it is also considered funny too.
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It’s a 5 minute walk from my house to the pub...

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It’s a 5 minute walk from my house to the pub. It’s a 30 minute walk from the pub to my house. The difference is staggering. This is funny because of a pun. If someone describes something as staggering, usually that indicates that it is shocking or surprising, but staggering in this case is used as a verb - one which means "stumbling around", because personally the jokester was walking home while drunk. People being drunk is also considered funny, so that might add to the humor of this joke. I will admit - I chuckled when I read this.
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A kid tells his teacher "You only teach useless crap!"

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A kid tells his teacher "You only teach useless crap!" She replies "Don't be so hard on yourself." This joke is an insult and probably also an example of someone intentionally misunderstanding someone else. The insult is the teacher assuming that "you only teach useless crap" meant "the only people that you teach are useless and crap" instead of the more likely parsing of the sentence "the only things that you teach to people are things that are useless and crap". The reason why we know that the teacher made that assumption is because their statement "don't be so hard on yourself" is the teacher telling the student to not insult themself. The second parsing of the sentence is significantly more likely, so the teacher might have intentionally misunderstood it, and misunderstandings (intentionally or not) can be funny as well. I chuckled when I read this.
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