How is Comedy-Isaac Satin

There have been 3 exchanges in Act I of "The Importance of Being Ernest" which have struck me as particularly funny so far: The first is on page 2, "Algernon: (Languidly) I don't know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane.
Lane: No, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself." The second is on page four, where Algy says  "Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta" and then promptly eats one of the sandwiches. The third happens on page eight with the line  “My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn’t a dentist. It produces a false impression.” The first and third of these examples are considered to be in the school of "high" humor, the first mainly using sarcasm and satire, and the third making use of a pun. Meanwhile the second example is in the "low" school of comedy as it mainly involves physical action. Personally of the three I find the first and second exchanges to be the funniest; something about a dismissive attitude makes me laugh, and the characters in those moments are nothing if not dismissive.

My favorite types of comedy are meta and absurdist humor. Meta humor is when the joke is self referencing and relates to something outside of the production it is part of; for example, the opening of season 3 of the show Community included a musical number which, while amusing on its own, is even funnier when you know that the song is referencing criticisms lobbed at the show during its first 2 seasons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wi9qKURtKI). The lines "We're going to seem like a mainstream dream/and be appealing to all mankind" are particularly funny- though out of context they may seem strange, they are actually hyperbolizing words from the mouths of NBC executives who said the show did not have enough mainstream appeal and throwing it back in their face. Then there's absurdist humor. A prime example of this in literature is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; almost any exchange from the book has absurdism somewhere in it. However the internet has allowed for something of a new era of absurdism in comedy: to help make my point I'm going to use two of my favorite twitter accounts, @dril (https://twitter.com/dril) and @nihilist_arbys (https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys). First from @dril we have the tweet "laying in the car, hiding firom my malicious Wife because im in trouble for buying too many toothpicks to fit into the tooth pick holder." No part of this tweet is inherently funny, but somehow the formatting, outlandishness and absurdity of the tweet makes it funny. Then Nihilist Arby's has this tweet: "Tonight, fake looking humans worship each other for their beauty and artifice. Tomorrow, at least one of you will be dead. Arbys: whatever." Again, nothing SHOULD be funny about this. If anything it ought to be depressing. But somehow, it is funny. I think, in this case, the humor stems from the idea that an actual Arby's PR representative is paid to run this account but they're such a horribly depressing person that each promotional tweet becomes a depressing look at what our lives really are; you could even argue that the Nihilist Arby's twitter is actively satirizing the capitalistic notion of what we consume determining our value. It's these outlandish thoughts that the tweets prompt that give them comedic value, not the tweets themselves, and that's really neat.