Ha ha ha! Ha ha. Ha. … Ha?
There’s a link in the article to a site where the full Top Ten Oldest Jokes list can be found, but I’m unable to unearth said information.
I just did a search on the site for “oldest jokes”, and the article came up.
FTR, the one you quoted just struck some sort of absurd-bone in me, and I laughed hysterically for a good minute or so. shrug
Desmond “The Naked Ape” Morris used to host a television documentary series in which he said the world’s most ancient rude gesture was putting your hands palm-out in front of you and then shoving them towards the other person in a pantomime of “I’m shoving excrement at you”. He didn’t give his source or argumentation for this, but it does involve a sort of potty humor.
I think the next oldest jokes is probably
or references to a “1920 BCE style death ray [from the gods]”.
I’m trying to think of anything from the OT that might be seen as jocular in nature, but I’m coming up empty handed.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
This whole “humor” thing obviously needed work. Several centuries’ worth actually.
What the hell, I’ll pull this one out of the vault:
“Yeah, I found my ____. It was in the last place I looked.”
“Well OF COURSE it was in the last place you looked. You don’t keep looking once it’s been found.”
yuk yuk yuk :rolleyes:
I actually saw Jeff Foxworthy doing this joke on television once. What, did you trip on your way to the stage, hit your head, and forget all your jokes? His regular material sucks too, but at least it’s not 80 years old.
Well since prostitution is called the oldest profession I bet jokes about it soon followed.
I don’t know the setup but the punch line could have been:
You paid 5 drachmas!? I only paid three, got change and also got my feet washed.
No, the oldest prostitution joke is also the oldest “your mama” joke.
Enjoy,
Steven
“Look, I know I told you to slice open your son, but I was joking!!..”
[Adam]“Stand back! I don’t know how big this thing gets!”[/Adam]
“Five rupees, same as in town!”
“Why dire wolf cross path?”
“Not know. Why?”
“Eat Thag.”
“Uh. Not get.”
“Then shit out Thag.”
“Ha ha ha!”