Wornout premises for jokes

In My Humble Opinion
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My Quora feed keeps giving me jokes that start “In the Soviet Union…” and I find that they’re all similar in their punchline (“revealing” that the Soviet Union was corrupt) and I no longer find them funny. I realize that there are several other joke-premises that have worn out their welcome to my funny bone, including

  1. an X and a Y and Z (usually “a priest and a rabbi and a minister”) walk into a bar…

  2. a salesman finds himself at nightfall in need of a place to stay, so he pulls up at a farm, where the farmer has a teenaged daughter…

  3. Someone dies and goes to the Gates of Heaven where St. Peter has a few questions for him before he can be admitted…

and several others, none of which have elicited even a smile from me for decades. Which joke-premises no longer are capable of surprising you with their punchlines?

2

See, a genie was in the lamp — but the guy who found it? He didn’t get what he expected, ha-HA!

3

In Soviet Union something something’s you!

4

Bad woman drivers. Everyone is a shitty driver now. Increasingly deliberate to boot.

5

X, Y, and Z are in a situation.

X behaves normally.

Y behaves normally.

And then it’s Z’s turn, in which they will do or say something unexpected and leave you howling and gasping for air.

mmm

6

How many insert racial sterotype does it take to blah blah blah?

All of them, one of them or they never heard of it.

7

An Irishman, a rabbi, and a genie walk into a Soviet light bulb on a desert island and find your mama in a farmhouse at the pearly gates.

mmm

8

Knock, knock?

9

Come on in. The doors not locked.

10

I’m old enough to remember mother-in-law jokes. The comedian didn’t have to do much more than say “mother in law.” Thankfully , that one’s gone. Maybe some of the others will go as well.

11

If you do this thing…you might be a REDNECK!!!

12

OP’s mom…

well not actually OP’s mom…

people posting OP’s mom to answer questions on Reddit and other forums…

13

Yo mama so blah blah blah she blah blah blah.

14

yo mamma so fat she can suck-start a Harley

15

I don’t think that’s the right setup for the punch line.

16

Here a newer take on that bit:

Aren’t you a little old to believe in genies?

17

blahblahblah…
The Aristocrats!

18

I’m old enough to remember dead baby jokes. You can find examples on the internet but nobody seems to tell them anymore.

19

Shh. Don’t get them started again.

20

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Owls.
Owls who?
Yes, yes they do.