Joke
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A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally. It usually takes
Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton enjoying a joke
The Westcar Papyrus, dating to c. 1600 BC, contains an example of one of the earliest surviving jokes.
1597 engraving of Poggio Bracciolini, author of one of the first joke anthologies
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Lightbulb joke
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A lightbulb joke is a joke cycle that asks how many people of a certain group are needed to change, replace, or screw in a light bulb. Generally, the punch line answer highlights a stereotype of the t
Joke
…narrative structure and type of humour. Some well-known cycles are elephant jokes using nonsense humour, dead baby jokes incorporating black humour, and light bulb jokes, which describe all kinds of operational stupidity. Joke cycles can centre on ethnic groups, professions (viola jokes), catastrophes, settings (…walks…
An Edison screw lightbulb can be screwed into the base without assistance