This is exactly how it went down. Our intro to relief theory was with our professor going "why is this funny? You laughed at this man. He is hurt, is pain funny to you?"

When the video in question is that of a man wrapping his dick in tin foil and sticking it into a electrical socket and incongruity theory is not helping because shit goes down exactly as you would expect for a man sticking his dick in an electrical outlet.

My philosophy of humor class in college was a treasured memory. The professor would make us watch the weirdest YouTube videos and if anyone laughed he would pounce on them and demand us explain ourselves. Truely the peak of academics. Explaining why a joke is funny kills it, but having to do so academically makes it horseshoe back around to being funny again.