# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/7 "2020-09-25T16:08:24Z")
Here’s a fifty-post thread from last month explaining one old Reader’s Digest joke. > [@Couldn't get this 80s or 90s Reader's Digest joke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couldnt-get-this-80s-or-90s-readers-digest-joke/918192): > > Decades ago, the humor sections in Reader’s Digest were almost all real-life anecdotes, not the jokes that they are now. Sometime in the 80s or 90s, someone told a true anecdote that was published in RD’s joke section and I have never figured it out: I was a pizza delivery guy. One time I delivered a pizza to a lady, and she gave me a $20 bill and told me to “keep the change.” Delighted at such a large tip, I took the bill and went back into my car, only to have her come and knock on the car w… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466)._