I thought the plastic wrap underpants joke was much funnier than the badminton-dog joke, which was exceedingly lame. I have a guy brain, I guess. Now if it had been a cat and the cat had eaten two birdies and the owner said “Bad Minton” that would be funny. Do they call shuttlecocks “birdies” in the UK?
Personally, I thought the joke that won in Begium was FAR funnier than the one that won worldwide.
“Why do ducks have webbed feet?”
“So they can stamp out forest fires.”
“Why do elephants have flat feet?”
“So they can stamp out ducks on fire.”
For some reason I laughed out loud at this one. I know, I know…it’s embarrassing. All I can say is, I must be Belgian and my parents have been lying to me all these years. 
I thought Monty Python made it quite clear that the funniest joke in the world could not be shared in such a public manner, as the resulting laughter-based deaths would destroy society as we know it.
Speaking of the python joke…what is the english translation?
I’m with dragongirl. I didn’t even smile.
I think the poll was tragically flawed. I bet they left out all the jokes about sex or race and those that were otherwise politically incorrect. Offensive jokes are much funny than lame puns.
Does no one else find the funniest thing the fact that it took a team of scientists a year to come up with this?
That’s about as funny as tertiary syphillis.
Now that one’s a lot funnier than the hunter joke.
C’mon, I wanna hear these. What is the clown joke that keeps getting mentioned in different threads? (Or am I dooming myself to a slow, painful death by requesting it be told?)
Frank Loyd Wright refused to enter any architectural competitions. He believed that the world gained no building worth having by a competition because:
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The jury is necessarily a hand-picked average. Some “constituency” must agree upon the “jury.”
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Therefore the first thing this average jury does is go through all the designs and throw out the best and the worst ones. This is necessary in order that the average may average upon something average.
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Therefore any architectural competition will be an average upon an average in behalf of the average.
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The net result is a building that is well behind the times before it is even built.
The mediocrity of the joke could be explained by that. It is not that the joke is exceptionally funny, but that it is the best “average of the average”.
Most of the above was quoted from “The Journals of Ayn Rand” Pg. 119
Hmmm. Yeah: We do need more jokes about dead babies.
When I saw this on CNN, I thought for sure someone was resurrecting on old Monty Python joke.