# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 602
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/602 "2020-11-02T07:02:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Are there any opposite cases? That is: Jokes that work today, but if anyone had said them 40, 50, 60, 70 years ago, nobody would have understood? I tried to start a thread like that (specifically about movies rather than jokes), and nobody replied ☹ I think maybe Cafe Society tends to lean towards nostalgia? > [@Synchronic (of our time) elements in modern movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/synchronic-of-our-time-elements-in-modern-movies/917638): > > We’ve often mentioned the things that just don’t work any more from old movies and TV shows: waiting for the telephone to ring, finding a phone booth etc. But I’ve just been enjoying “Yesterday” – which features lovely contextual use of Google, and some Uber movies, and I thought: What did you like in a movie that couldn’t have been there 10 years ago? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466)._