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It's a musician's joke, so if you don't have classical training you may very well be missing something crucial. Asking for a passage that crescendos from forte to quintuple forte (or fortisisisissimo, if you prefer) to be played delicately, for example, is absurd. So is an 8 note chord with each individual note holding a different accidental, and so on; everything on the chart is designed as a visual gag.
If you know enough about music to understand what all the markings mean, it's funny because of the absurdity. If you don't, I suppose it just becomes so much crap on a page.
I'd liken the whole thing to the sort of slap-dash humour you might find in Mad Magazine, only nerdier.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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