Just to get back on track a little, it’s worth noting that Miller’s jokes were mostly not at all original. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see the same sort of joke in ancient Greek or Roman texts.
For that matter, I’d expect to see stories like that in any culture that has any kind of informal social gathering place.
It would be taxonomically illogical to add a minister. Then, to be consistent, you’d have to include both a Shiite imam and a Sunni imam, as well as both an Orthodox rabbi and a Reform rabbi.
(Man, are we running this joke, or what?)
Well, I did check out Bracciolini’s Facetiae (1470), but didn’t find any there. There may indeed by a “a man walks into the public baths” joke from antiquity.
A three-legged dog walks into a bar.
“I’m looking for the man that shot my pa.”
To analyze a joke is to kill it.
A zombie walks into a bar then attacks a woman sitting on a stool in the corner.
The bartender yells " Hey get out!", we don’t serve your type here! "
Why? A zombie can’t get a drink around here?"
“No, zombies are OK, bot not drug addicts, that the Barbituate!”
On the 8th day, God walks into a bar…
A Skeleton walked in a bar and said “Give me a beer and a mop”!
A man stumbles up to the only other patron in a bar and asks if he could buy him a drink. “Why of course,” comes the reply.
The first man then asks, “Where are you from?”
“I’m from Ireland,” replies the second man.
The first man responds, “You don’t say, I’m from Ireland too! Let’s have another round to Ireland.”
“Of course,” replies the second man.
“I’m curious,” the first man then asks, “Where in Ireland are you from?”
“Dublin,” comes the reply.
“I can’t believe it,” says the first man. “I’m from Dublin too! Let’s have another drink to Dublin.”
“Of course,” replies the second man.
Curiosity again strikes and the first man asks, “What school did you go to?”
“Saint Mary’s,” replies the second man, “I graduated in '62.”
“This is unbelievable!”, the first man says. “I went to Saint Mary’s and I graduated in '62, too!”
About that time in comes one of the regulars and sits down at the bar. “What’s been going on?” he asks the bartender.
“Nothing much,” replies the bartender. “The O’Kinly twins are drunk again.”
I’ve always liked this bit of throwaway from a Brian Daley novel: a bar sign reading
LOWER LIFEFORMS SERVED
What’ll You Have?
This thread has inspired me to start a contest to create an original “Man walks into a bar” joke.
A sandwich walks in to a bar…
bartender says, “sorry pal we don’t serve food here.”
I believe it went like this:
“In 1760, D. Boon walked into a Bar and cilled it.”
“Free Beer Tomorrow”
Newspaper column from 1956–
"Kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a martini. Bartender serves him. Kangaroo drinks it, pulls out a $5.00 bill. Bartender charges him $1.50 for the drink and gives change. Kangaroo gets up to leave.
Bartender tells customer on next stool–I’ve never had a kangaroo in here before, Kangaroo overhears this, turns and says—“at those prices, you won’t ever again.”
Adding to my info---------I think this form of the joke was invented by stand-up comics in the early 1950’s–their heyday.
A masochist marries a sadist
On the wedding night, the masochist says “Hit me, Hit me.”
And the sadist says, “No.”
AAaawww inflation… makes me miss the good ol’ days.
Hard to beat The Far Side: http://www.sunshineoctopus.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/3wiseguys.jpg
Former US President George W. Bush walks into a bar.
Ow!
A mushroom walks into a bar. The bartender says, “We don’t serve your kind here.” “Why not? I’m a fungi.”
