I’m teaching some after-school classes of 7-10 year olds.
It’s going really well and a small part of that is that I tell a joke at the end of every lesson.
The kids like the routine and look forward to the humour. In fact, I said once “Please listen or I won’t tell the joke” - and they immediately all focused.
But I’m running out of jokes. :eek:
So far I have used:
two goldfish on a tank. One of them says “How do you drive this?”
two parrots on a perch. One of them says “Can you smell fish?”
doctor, the Invisible Man is here. Tell him I can’t see him!
doctor, a nervous man is here. He thinks he’s a pair of curtains. Tell him tp pull himself together!
As you see, the standard is not high - but they laugh out loud, so it’s what they want.
Also a punchline that takes a little while to work out is interesting to them. “Oh, I get it now!”
If you have material along the above lines, I would be grateful for your help.
I presume you are not looking for the old standbys like the ones about “Artie choke” or “What is black and white and read all over (not that they’d understand the concept of a black and white newspaper any more anyway).”
A guy goes to a doctor. He tells the doc he has the same dream every night. First he’s a teepee, then he’s a wigwam. The doctor told him he needs to relax, he’s too tense.
What do you get when you run over a canary with a lawnmower? Shredded tweet.
Did you hear about the bald man who got a comb for his birthday? He said Thanks! I’ll never part with it.
Why do elephants paint their toenails? So they can hide in jellybean jars.
Hmm? You say you’ve never seen an elephant in a jellybean jar? Then you see how well it works!
Why do firemen wear red suspenders? To hold their pants up.
A sheriff drives up to a rancher’s house and says, “We’re looking for a wanted man. Maybe you’ve seen him. He’s wearing a brown paper shirt, brown paper pants, brown paper boots, and a brown paper hat.”
A duck goes into a supermarket and asks the manager “Do you have any grapes?” Grapes not being in season, the manager said no. The next day, the same duck comes in and asks “Do you have any grapes?” Again, the manager says no. Third day, duck waddles in “Hey, do you have any grapes?”. Now the manager is annoyed. If you ask me for grapes one more time I am going to staple your bill shut.
Next day duck comes back. “Do you have any staples?” No replied the manager. “Good. Then do you have any grapes?”
