On a cruise ship, there's a magician who has a regular gig which is a huge hit with passengers and crew alike, including the captain.
The problem is, the captain had a parrot, and the parrot (since it spoke English) understood the show and always gave everything away, like "Awwk! It's in his hat! Awwk! He's got it up his sleeve!" and all that.
Understandably, the magician hated the bird, and one day he couldn't take it anymore and took out a shotgun and shot the bird. The bullets missed the bird, hit a fuel tank and blew the cruise ship into a billion pieces.
The only survivors were the magician and the bird, out there floating on two pieces of wood.
So the bird turns to the magician and says "All right, I give up, where's the damn ship?"