Q: What’s brown and sticky?
A stick.
Q: What’s twelve inches long and slippery?
A slipper.
What’s got no eyes and one leg?
A leg.
I remember being in a library when I heard that and laughing so hard I nearly vomited (guess you had to be there). Had to be helped from the building.
Hey, watch the spoilers!
What does the famed “Aristocrats” joke family count as? Anti-humor? Dead-baby comedy? Jungian-memetic hacking?
Joke that was rejected by a Saturday Night Live censor:
If Helen Keller was alone and fell in a forest, would she make a sound?
What’s black and white, and red all over, and has trouble going through revolving doors?
A nun. With a spear through her head.
I thought Righton was pretty funny. I may have to share that with some rather humorless friends.
Robin
Q. What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back when you throw it?
A. A stick.
I like to tell this one in conjunction with “What’s brown and sticky” and “What’s a foot long and slippery.”
Daniel
I love some of these - the ones that come back hard and wrong like the ‘what’s worse than finding a worm in your apple’ one.
They remind me of a line one comedian used on a another comedian: "oh yeah, he’s a master of everyday, observational comedy everyone can relate to - like, “you know when you get nervous and strangle the hooker?” "
I suppose Sarah Silverman does this sometimes - but it feels like she doesn’t get it right as often as she’d like…