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that is, short, humorous little stories that are a few sentences long and are always told verbatim, e.g. knock knock jokes or X, Y and Z walk into a bar jokes what was the last new joke you heard? i remember a stereotypical way to fill awkward silences with people you didn't know well was to ask "heard any good jokes lately?" does anybody still say that? the obvious answer is that as more and more communication moved online, it became easier for people to share humorous content through images or videos rather than memorizing jokes. incidentally, there's a lot of web 1.0 content that is essentially archives of jokes; remember http://bash.org but once you no longer had to memorize a piece of comedy to share it, the form of jokes opened up; to put it another way, they were replaced by modern internet memes. but don't you miss the artistry and personality involved in telling a classic joke well? it's one of those analog skills like driving manual that's easy to appreciate. there's comedic timing, of course, and the ability to tell the whole joke with no verbal mistakes, and sometimes a physicality too. i think the closest analog to classic jokes in modern internet humor is twitter; the enforced brevity produces a similar experience to classic jokes. i actually made this thread because i was thinking about this post in the trump thread that's just a straight-up classic form two-line joke. so the format isn't completely dead
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interesting thread, op...i heard a story about a scarecrow who received an award. he was outstanding in his field.
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Jul 27, 2020 06:32
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this thread is a joke, maybe you've heard of it
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Jul 27, 2020 07:47
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Knock knock
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Jul 27, 2020 09:20
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why did Joe Biden cross the road? to suck a Republican’s dick on the other side
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Jul 27, 2020 09:21
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and he paid for the privilege. the republican is a job creator after all
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Jul 27, 2020 09:23
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The only real joke is President Donald Trump OP. He is a joke.
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Jul 27, 2020 09:23
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memes have replaced jokes as the main venue of popular humor, much as rap has replaced popular poetry
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Jul 27, 2020 09:25
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Another good use of jokes is when you find yourself somewhere memes and twitter aren’t available, such as a conversation.
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Jul 27, 2020 09:35
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I like this thread
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Jul 27, 2020 13:23
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TheSlutPit posted:Another good use of jokes is when you find yourself somewhere memes and twitter aren’t available, such as a conversation. How would that happen?
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Jul 27, 2020 13:25
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Jokes died when Trump decided not to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner, depriving us of our annual ritual of the President making funnies.
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Jul 27, 2020 14:56
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e-dt posted:Knock knock phew, well at least we know it isnt the police
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Jul 27, 2020 15:19
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donald trump is president
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Jul 27, 2020 15:22
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jokes are predominantly a way for unfunny stupid people to briefly enjoy the experience of people laughing with them rather than at them. they're a form of charity, essentially.
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Dolphin posted:jokes are predominantly a way for unfunny stupid people to briefly enjoy the experience of people laughing with them rather than at them. they're a form of charity, essentially. jokes are a way of commodifying humor, the original form of labor, and alienating it from its creator so that its excess social value can be skimmed by a parasitic entity. there is no ethical laughing under capitalism i think youll find we are proper comrades in this subforum
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Jul 27, 2020 15:28
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Breakfast All Day posted:phew, well at least we know it isnt the police
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Jul 27, 2020 15:38
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Time flies like an arrow, Fruit Flies like bananas.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:23
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Roosevelt and Stalin are at the Yalta Conference. Roosevelt says, "One beautiful thing about America is that we have freedom of speech. That means that anybody can stand in front of the White House and say, "Roosevelt is a piece of poo poo" and nobody would pay any attention.” Stalin says, "We have freedom of speech in the Soviet Union too. Anybody can stand in front of the Kremlin and say, "Roosevelt is a piece of poo poo" and no one would bat an eye.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:07
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One day Stalin reads his report to the Party Congress. Suddenly someone sneezes. "Who sneezed?" Silence. "First row! On your feet! Shoot them!" They are shot, and he asks again, "Who sneezed, Comrades?" No answer. "Second row! On your feet! Shoot them!" They are shot too. "Well, who sneezed?" At last a sobbing cry resounds in the Congress Hall, "It was me! Me!" Stalin says, "Bless you, Comrade!" and resumes his speech.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:13
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Biden makes a speech: "Everyone in the West Wing has dementia. Comrade Harris doesn't recognize herself: I say "Hello, comrade Harris,” and she responds "Hello, Joe Biden, but I'm not Harris." Comrade Buttigieg is like a child – he's taken my rubber donkey from my desk. And during comrade Bush’s funeral – by the way, why is he absent? – nobody but me invited a lady for a dance when the music started playing."
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Jul 27, 2020 17:16
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How many capitalists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. The invisible hand of the free market will take care of it.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:20
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richard 'lowtax' kyanka
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Jul 27, 2020 17:24
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Las Vegas is now home to a 550ft tall ferris wheel. Also drawing thousands to Las Vegas? Prostitutes!
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Jul 27, 2020 17:27
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A new study found that men with beards are more attractive. More great work from the University of Bob Seger.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:27
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A frightened man came to the KGB. "My talking parrot has disappeared," he said. "That's not the kind of case we handle. You want the criminal police." "Oh, I know that. I'm here just to officially tell you that I disagree with the parrot."
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Jul 27, 2020 17:34
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e-dt posted:Knock knock Breakfast All Day posted:phew, well at least we know it isnt the police
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Jul 27, 2020 17:44
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basically what we do now is we stand around waiting for something to happen and then we go "so... that happened!" it's pretty great
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Jul 27, 2020 18:05
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Taintrunner posted:Biden makes a speech: "Everyone in the West Wing has dementia. Comrade Harris doesn't recognize herself: I say "Hello, comrade Harris,” and she responds "Hello, Joe Biden, but I'm not Harris." All the presidential candidates are on a train together when suddenly the train stops moving. They all go outside and see there's a mile missing from the tracks. Hawkins says, "Let's get all the people together and build a new track," but they don't have the material. Trump shouts, "If you don't build this track ill have you all shot!" but its still not fixed. Jorgensen suggests, "Let's tear up the track behind us for material," but no progress is made. Finally Biden says, "Comrades, let's just go back in the car, pull the curtains, put on the music, and just pretend the train is moving!"
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Heated Gaming Moment posted:A new study found that men with beards are more attractive. lol norm 
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Jul 27, 2020 19:08
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lmao
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Jul 27, 2020 20:24
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bill hicks destroyed jokes and was given cancer by the joke book industry as revenge they couldnt stop it though and now all comedy is just funny and somewhat angry stories
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Jul 27, 2020 20:49
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if you're looking for jokes OP might I suggest the CHEETO in the WHITE HOUSE
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A cowboy, a gravedigger, and an idiot walk into a bar and sit at a booth. The cowboy orders a whisky, the gravedigger a martini, and the idiot a Bud Light. "I've been wondering," says the idiot, "why did all the jokes disappear?" "It's simple," replies the cowboy. "You turned on your monitor."
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Jul 28, 2020 02:15
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The advertising industry started using them and everyone developed a subconscious loathing.
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Washington DC is full of bad people, take the president for example. No really, take him!
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Jul 30, 2020 04:48
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Helen Skelter posted:Time flies like an arrow, Fruit Flies like bananas. it's "fruit flies like a banana" come on
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My 5 year old daughter has to tell me two jokes every night and I have to (pretend) to laugh at them. Her current favorites are; Knock knock, Who's there? Little old lady. Little old lady who? Why are you yodeling? What do you call a fish with no eyes? A-FSH (cymbal sound) (she came up with this one herself): Why did the sheep get out if his pen? He was b-a-a-ad. Zook has issued a correction as of 06:07 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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A regional Communist Party meeting is held to celebrate the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The Chairman gives a speech: "Dear comrades! Let's look at the amazing achievements of our Party after the revolution. For example, Maria here, who was she before the revolution? An illiterate peasant; she had but one dress and no shoes. And now? She is an exemplary milkmaid known throughout the entire region. Or look at Ivan Andreev, he was the poorest man in this village; he had no horse, no cow, and not even an ax. And now? He is a tractor driver with two pairs of shoes! Or Trofim Semenovich Alekseev--he was a nasty hooligan, a drunk, and a dirty gadabout. Nobody would trust him with as much as a snowdrift in wintertime, as he would steal anything he could get his hands on. And now he's Secretary of the Regional Party Committee!"
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Zook posted:My 5 year old daughter has to tell me two jokes every night and I have to (pretend) to laugh at them. Her current favorites are; these are very good
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