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There's a bunch of games based on "suspect" premesies from back in my younger days (Most Atari 2600 games were based on something ridiculous), but I'm going with a game I just started playing. A game that is so simple and silly I can't believe I'm actually saying I enjoy playing it, but for some reason it's addicting. It's Densha de Go! or Let's go by Train!. It's a train simulator straight out of Japan. It basicially works like this, I start my run by closing the doors, slowly leaving the station, blowing the horn a few times, slowing down around some corners and bringing her in for a nice easy stop right on time. Rinse and repeat. That's it. It's simple to the point of craziness but I'm enjoying it enough that I just bought another one. There's a ton of these in Japan for all systems and all kinds of rail lines. God I love Japan.
What's this bullcrap?! A bunch of random minigames only 3 seconds in length? And you have to do them randomly? It'll never catch on! The Wario Ware series by Nintendo has had 4 games, all of them a blast to play. It will inevitably start losing steam, due to using up all the good ideas possible, but for now, we've got a great, quirky, popular series, which is my favourite game with a stupid premise. 
There's been many a time where I've explained to my wife what I'm doing in a game that I'm playing, but never has the reaction been different than when I told her that I was a prince who rolled stuff up to make stars. Huh wha? You just roll stuff up? Yup...that's it. Katamari Damacy, of course, is a perfectly whimsical game with a ridiculous "story", crazy music and arguably a very stupid premise. Fortunately these factors only help the enjoyment of rolling shit up.
Advertising in games has become a huge topic of debate in the gaming community as of late. But advertising AS games? That's how companies used to roll when I grew up. When I was about 10, a slew of titles started hitting store shelves that would make your head spin today - Yo! Noid, Chester Cheetah, Cool Spot - every company mascot with even a passing appeal to children had it's own game, and surprisingly, some of them were quite good. 7-Up's own Cool Spot earns a place in my heart, not for the solid Genesis platformer bearing the same name, but for the NES title that beat it to market, 7-Up Presents Spot: The Video Game. It wasn't anything more than a groovy 4-player version of Othello with some very cute animations - but as a lover of Othello (no jokes about me being a fat white chick please) I can honestly say that this is one of the best video game versions of it out there. If they gave it a visual makeover and through this on Live Arcade I'd be on top of it faster than a fat kid at a cupcake convention.
Most of the games I buy are fairly mainstream and usually not "stupid" in nature. However, when I was a kid, my family had an Intellivision and I absolutely ate up Kool-Aid Man. The game played out in two parts. The first involved a pair of kids trapped in a house trying to gather sugar, a pitcher, and a packet of Kool-Aid to make a pitcher of the juice. Unfortunately for the kids, creatures called Thirsties try to stop them as they traverse the unusually long house. If they are successful, you get to play as the Kool-Aid Man himself. In the second part, he hunts down the Thirsties while collecting flying fruit to jack up the score. Kool-Aid Man on Intellivision is a totally commercialized video game. It was very short and simple, but I remember it being surprisingly fun. I guess anything would seem fun to a five year old though. 
I wouldn't say it had a "stupid premise", but one of the most fun games I've played recently that had a more bizarre premise was Psychonauts. I don't even own a PS2, but I'd heard such great things and read such great reviews from a ton of different sources that I had to check it out. I'm glad I did, as it has become one of my favorite games! Basically, the game is about a psychic sumemr camp that goes AWOL and the main character, Rasputin, has to figure out what's makin' everyone crazy. It was crazy cool! In what other game can you jump around inside a classy gala, hunt a meaty Bunny monster, travel to the depths of a lake to battle a mutant lungfish and romp around a city as a gigantic version of yourself with the clever ability to stomp the citizens? All limited to the confines of the camp counselors and campers' minds? Definitely my fave game with a silly premise.
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