[panel 1: a large dodo approaches a clean, well dressed vagrant youth sat beside a well fashioned wood and stone building. The youth warily guards a bag holding their belongings and the stick they use to travel with it. The dodo asks “Pardon me, do you have the time?” and the youth replies “yes, it’s -“]
[panel 2: the dodo exclaims “You have the time!”]
[panel 3: a quartet of dodos appear and excitedly chatter over one another: “He has the time.” “The time! he has it!” “At long last! Our desperate search is at an end! The time has been found!”]
[panel 4: they lean in amongst one another and whisper “PSSHHWSSSSPTT
SSHSSHHPSSTT”]
[panel 5: the group approaches the youth and asks “Will you… give us the time?” And the youth replies “It’s nine fifteen.” The dodos exclaim “AAAAAHHH! NOW WE HAVE THE TIME!”]
I'm not high enough to understand this. Can someone ELI5 this for me please?
It seems absolutely unfunny to me, and I'm a big Monty Python fan.
Edit: Just to prevent snarky replies, I understand what the humor is supposed to be, a word play, but it just seems so incredibly unfunny, and that's coming from someone who says dad jokes all the time.
More power to you if you find it funny, truly, but what I'm asking for is somebody to explain where the humor is in the word play.
On a more serious note, the context of the environment the wordplay joke is being done at, and how it's expressed/delivered, is what makes the difference in elevating the level of humor.
That it's not just the literal words themselves, but how they're said, and where, that makes a wordplay joke successful or not.