Good Jokes

Libera teaches about dad jokes. Seriously. As in, she's also an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago and has written about the science of comedy for the AMA Journal of Ethics. "They are the thinnest form of comedy," often based in puns and, unless you are a 5-year-old, nothing you haven't heard before.

Now, nobody has done in-depth research on the cardiovascular benefits of dad jokes. If they have, they are not admitting it. But if you accept that dad jokes could, in theory, provide humor and might, possibly, produce a laugh, experts say the benefits could be small but real.

Good Jokes

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Frates saw this in action with her own father. "He definitely had a lot of dad jokes," she said. "And I didn't really find them funny as a child or a teenager. But all my friends did." So even when she didn't laugh, the humor was something everyone rallied around.

It took Frates years to appreciate what her dad was doing. And now, 10 years after his death, just talking about dad jokes and Father's Day made her reflect on how her scientific interest in laughter and health can be traced back to him. "My whole introduction to humor was with my dad."

But these jokes may actually be good for his kids, and all kids. A study found that dad jokes, which are embarrassing, can help children build stamina when dealing with embarrassment as they grow into adults, resulting in being comfortable with who they are.

First, the website that conducted the poll, Ship of Fools, did not attribute me as the author. Arghhhhh! Sure, it has been quite a while since I performed it. And true, I'm not on TV all the time like some comedians I could name if I watched TV all the time. But come on, guys! The slightest Google search! But back in the day ... ah, my friends! That joke and I astounded the world! Everywhere I played, in the largest of British theatres, the audiences clamoured for it! I told it not once but twice on British television. A few years ago it was voted by my peers as one of the top 75 jokes of all time. It has been anthologized in several joke books, most recently in Italian; the translator gave me a copy a few weeks ago after one of my shows. He pointed the joke out, without telling me which it was ... but I immediately recognised my old friend by the word "ponte".

Second, I learned why Ship of Fools was running the poll ... to shed light on the possible effect if the British government goes ahead with its intention to outlaw "offensive" religious jokes. Such a law would be a bad idea, for the simple reason that jokes are how we humans avoid violence. Jokes are our safety-release mechanism. Sure they can sometimes be offensive. So can burps. But if you ban them even worse results happen. And believe me, if someone tells a joke that truly offends, he or she will be punished for it. That's one area for sure where the government can take it easy and relax.

Hello, Tornados! It's me, VorTex. I'm the official mascot of Concordia University Texas. I love supporting and cheering on our students. One of the ways I do so is by making them laugh. I have collected 25 of my best Christmas jokes for you to enjoy as you celebrate this beautiful Advent season.

Once again I am looking to tap into the collective intelligence, and humor, of this community to see if anyone would be interested in a fun little project though this messageboard. I am looking to collect and assemble any jokes or humorous anecdotes related to the federal government and contracting. This is not something I am looking to publish but merely collect for my own (and hopefully other's) amusement. Let me give an example:

Humor is a good thing. The problem with inviting the submission of jokes on a website is that what is humorous to one person might be terribly insulting to another. I love a good joke and am almost impossible to offend, but I get antsy when someone I don't know starts to tell a joke to a group that includes people they don't know.

I don't tell jokes to strangers. You never know how a stranger will receive a joke, even one that you think is inoffensive. My experience has been that if you're going to tell jokes to an audience that includes people you don't know you should be (1) very, very careful, (2) a professional comic, or (3) the kind of person who does not care about giving offense. It does not improve a bad situation to tell someone who takes your joke badly that they don't have a sense of humor.

I too have started and stopped my response. I think I can laugh at myself when appropriate (I am an identical twin, and many times have told people what it does to my confidence to look at my twin brother and think he is one ugly dude). What I do not like, and do not think is funny, is to tell jokes that depend upon and reinforce negative stereotypes to be funny. I would not think it funny for you to tell me a Jewish joke based on the sterotype of Jews being cheap, in fact I would be insulted. I have the same reaction to lawyer jokes. My wife (from Kentucky) is tired of redneck jokes. For the life of me, I cannot understand why I am supposed to be a good sport and just let myself be insulted, particularly when I do not know the person telling the joke.

OK....so I have let this sit and simmer for a bit and think I understand Vern and wvanpup's point a bit better. I have been reading a book called Little Bets by Peter Sims who talks about Innovation and creativity. He brings up the example of Chris Rock who takes a very methodological approach to creafting his work, noting the body language as well as the reactions of certain jokes he tests in smaller clubs and venues. Anyway...an interesting read, and applicable to this thread. Thanks for your responses and insight. As usual I learned something.

These jokes have enjoyed wide publicity. They have been mentioned in suchplaces as Alex Beam's Boston Globe column on Wednesday, November30, 1994 (p. 65), John Hayward-Warburton's article in BBC Music,and Dave Barry's book Dave Barry in Cyberspace (pp. 153-4).

These jokes are a continually-growing collection, and unfortunately, I canno longer remember which jokes I heard from whom. If you have ever told,emailed, or otherwise communicated to me a music joke, thank you.

When a comedian of color makes a joke, is it always about race, even if it's not about race? Code Switch talks to comedians Aparna Nancherla, Brian Bahe and Maz Jobrani about how and why race makes an appearance in their jokes. Plus, B.A. Parker reveals her early-career dabbling in comedy.

So now I had two ways I could make jokes, 1. Listen to what people say and take one of the words that sounds like it could make that sentence have an alternate meaning, then comment on that sentence based on that alternate meaning, 2. Look for inconsistencies in what people say and what they actually do. But what I didn't know about was something I learned from Melvin Helitzer in his book Comedy Writing Secrets. It's something he calls M.A.P. Which is an acronym for Material - Audience - Performer. The material has to be right for the audience and right for the performer.Like one time in Algebra class, the teacher, Mr. Roberts--an ex-Marine--was teaching us about word problems. He said, "Word Problems. It's a math problem that's presented in words." He paused, the corners of his mouth curled up in an awkward smile.Then it hit me: He was expecting that would get a laugh.

A drummer, sick of all the drummer jokes, decides to change his instrument.After some thought, he decides on the accordion. So he goes to the music storeand says to the owner, "I'd like to look at the accordions, please."

If you don't see your favorite musical joke here, check the list of viola jokes. If you don't see your joke thereeither, please email it to jcb@mit.edu. Unless I already have a similar joke on the page,I'll add it. (All jokes appear in the form in which I first heard them.)

Learning Data Science with fun is the missing ingredient for diligent data scientists. This blog post collected the best data science jokes including statistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

The funniest jokes of all time are usually jokes that are easy to understand, quick, and clever. There are so many different types of jokes, and different types of humour, too. We take a closer look at some of the funniest one-liner jokes of all time below.

Jokes are big in our house right now. We enjoyed reading through these and trying to guess. I've heard a few of these before but there were many new ones and a new spin with the Would You Rather jokes added in.

Good news for joke-tellers everywhere: Laughter can make a bad joke seem funnier, a study finds. People found jokes paired with laughter funnier than jokes without, and the more natural sounding the laughter was, the better. This effect was the same for people who have autism as it was for those who don't, which suggests that autistic people may not interpret all social cues as differently as expected.

The jokes might not be intrinsically hilarious, but that was intentional, Cai said. By using "bad" jokes, the researchers could be sure that there was plenty of room for listeners' opinions of them to improve.

The study participants, which included people who have autism as well as people who don't, listened to the jokes as told by a professional comedian and rated how funny each joke was on a scale from one to seven. Some jokes were followed by a recording of laughter, while others were not.

Although the autistic listeners found the jokes funnier overall, switching from forced to natural laughter increased both groups' enjoyment of the jokes by the same amount. The researchers believe this shows that people with autism process laughter in the same way as people without autism. 006ab0faaa