Puns No Fun

So dad emails the following to me which was sent to him and was probably sent to that person and so on.

Did you hear about the guy in Paris who almost got away with stealing
several paintings from the Louvre?

After planning the crime, getting in and out past security, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: "Monsieur, I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."

I laughed after reading it so I tell this joke to my office mates and I again laugh it up. Once I stopped laughing you could hear the crickets chirp, if we had crickets in the office, and not much else. At first I thought they didn't get it so I started to explain it. They stopped me and said they understood the joke.

What the hell? That's some funny shit right there. Hmmmph.