no, you're not going far enough with it.

Why wasn't the chicken able to cross the road?

Because he died. He's currently rotting in a shallow grave because his family couldn't pay for cremation services. He crosses the road to go to work for his family and his disabled wife, who has a degenerative bone disease that makes her unable to work. He's dead now and his 2 year old child has to be sent away to an orphanage because his mother cannot care for him.

He died halfway across the road, he was run over.

the aristocrats.

Then I guess I'm fucked up too, Mike, cuz I found that pretty funny.