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Clean jokes for kids and more: Funny jokes for kids that will get your family laughing together, including knock knock jokes, animal jokes and math jokes.
The best corny jokes, knock-knocks, one-liners and dad jokes for kids, adults and everyone else in need of a good laugh.
Find funny puns, corny one-liners and bad-but-good jokes that even Dad would approve of. Get everyone giggling with these short jokes for kids and adults. Find funny puns, corny one-liners and bad ...
Elephant jokes rely upon absurdity and incongruity for their humor, and a contrast with the normal presumptions of knowledge about elephants. They rely upon absurdist reasoning such as that it would be the relatively incidental evidence regarding the smell of an elephant's breath or the presence of footprints in the butter that would allow for the detection of an elephant in one's bathtub or ...
Hammer and Nails (1977) by Hans Godo Frabel.A "glass hammer" is a highly impractical object which an apprentice might be sent to fetch as part of a fool's errand. A fool's errand prank is a type of practical joke where a newcomer to a group, typically in a workplace context, is given an impossible or nonsensical task by older or more experienced members of the group.
In ethnic jokes he finds that the "stupid" ethnic target in the joke is no stranger to the culture, but rather a peripheral social group (geographic, economic, cultural, linguistic) well known to the joke tellers. [65] So Americans tell jokes about Polacks and Italians, Germans tell jokes about Ostfriesens, and the English tell jokes about the ...
That's because we've collected the best of the worst dad jokes, including groan-worthy puns, knock-knocks, dumb witticisms and the funniest anecdotes you'll find just about anywhere.
The "callback" in comedy writing—in which a statement or theme is recalled as the punchline or close of a scene—is a classic example of the tension and release that are possible using repetition. It is also the basis for "Englishman, Irishman, and Scotsman" jokes, where repetition is used to set up a modus operandi and build tension before ...