It's an insult to the superintelligence. The basilisk will not look kindly on this!

"it's funny because it isn't true"

It's a joke like the endless conservative dudes doing the "ordering coffee" joke is. It relies upon the ignorance of the viewer -- which is usually a fair assumption -- and basically that your understanding of something is based upon the prior accrued layers of "jokes".

Yeah, but it's not funny since it doesn't match reality.