This reminds me of the joke about the magician on a cruise ship. He inherited a parrot from the previous performer and soon grew to hate it. During his act the parrot would keep squawking, saying "the card's up his sleeve", "the rabbit is in the hat" and so on. But because of the history he couldn't just get rid of the parrot.
One day a huge storm swallowed up the cruise ship and it sank. The magician managed to cling to a piece of wood until he washed up on a desert island. Shortly afterwards the parrot washed up on the same island, still alive. It flew into the branches of a tree where the magician couldn't get at it, and stared at the magician.
After several days the parrot finally said "Ok, I give up, where's the ship?"