# Jokes that, nowadays, need explaining **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [September 25, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466 "2020-09-25T02:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/642 "2020-11-06T13:51:57Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Had to look it up You’ve just spoiled the blurred spoiler in the previous post to yours. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/643 "2020-11-06T14:03:32Z")
Even with the spoiler, I didn’t “get” the joke - until I looked it up. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/644 "2020-11-06T14:06:32Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Even with the spoiler, I didn’t “get” the joke - until I looked it up You’re not everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/645 "2020-11-06T14:26:26Z")
My apologies. I should have spoilered my link too. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/646 "2020-11-06T15:15:20Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > My apologies. I should have spoilered my link too… I fixed it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/647 "2020-11-06T15:31:54Z")
Thank you. Again, apologies. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/648 "2020-11-06T15:49:51Z")
It was a joke. If you didn’t get it wouldn’t you want to know the answer anyway? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/649 "2020-11-06T16:14:58Z")
I didn’t get it, either. Thanks, **Andy\_L** for adding your link. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/650 "2020-11-06T16:35:01Z")
It’s definitely a joke that nowadays needs explaining. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/651 "2020-11-06T16:42:07Z")
Simply googling her name would have explained it. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/652 "2020-11-07T00:15:19Z")
You joke but I’m fairly sure I saw an advertisement for a Romeo and Juliet reprinting of the original work except almost all the words were emojis. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/653 "2020-11-07T15:18:46Z")
Could that be the Darmok translation? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/654 "2020-11-07T23:42:24Z")
“Romeo and Mercutio, their pantaloons akimbo…” (As us aging nerds get beamed up, Star Trek references will need to be explained) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/655 "2020-11-07T23:49:59Z")
Grin! “Larry and Curly, when the pants fell.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/656 "2020-11-08T04:02:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Huh. I never thought Bentsen was doing anything other than cutting Quayle down, and not just to size. > > IIRC, the line was “Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. And you, Senator, are no Jack Kennedy.” I kinda wish Quayle had retorted with “Well, Senator, y’all may be from Texas, but you’re no Lyndon Johnson, either.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/657 "2020-11-08T04:04:06Z")
Ain’t that the truth. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/658 "2020-11-08T05:01:08Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Connie Chung was pretty much the hot chick TV reporter of the late seventies and beyond. The implication was that all the other female reporters were jealous of her and considered her a sellout slut. A joke that was on SNL in its first season, I think on Weekend Update had Chevy Chase reporting that Bill Cosby, Beverly Sills, Johnny Cash, and Connie Chung had formed a musical group and were holding a contest to name their group. Entries were to be sent to Cosby, Sills, Cash, and Chung. Which was funny if you were familiar with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young, who had come together as a rock supergroup. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/659 "2020-11-08T05:18:23Z")
I once had anchovy pizza. It wasn’t bad, but I didn’t care for it. It just tasted like tuna. In defense of anchovies, there was a pizza place across Sheridan Rd. from Loyola U. Two people could share a small pan pizza and also each have a salad. The salad was always topped with an anchovy. I didn’t like it at first, but eventually I acquired a bit of a taste for it. But I haven’t had an anchovy since. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/660 "2020-11-08T08:51:30Z")
No, he already made himself look stupid enough by saying “The jerk store called. They’re running outta you”, because Bentsen would just reply “What’s the difference? You’re their all-time best seller!”. See, the idea of a comeback is to be funny and ridicule the other guy, not be unfunny in a most petty and spiteful way. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/661 "2020-11-08T17:32:34Z")
SNL did a skit last night imagining Donald Trump in the back of a white Ford Bronco with Don Jr. at the wheel just like the OJ slow speed chase. That happened 24 years ago, plenty of people now are already too young to recall that event even if they’ve heard of the OJ trial and the murders. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466.md?page=34)