A (not very) funny thing happened on the way to John Adam Street…

January 31, 2008 by
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Are jokes pro-social acts? I guess it depends on their content and the context of their telling. It is as hard to make up jokes as design pro-social experiments. Although I love hearing and telling jokes I have only ever made up three, and one of those was this morning. Here they are:

‘Why do rabbits care about the Government’s finances?

Because they are worried about the size of the public sector burrowing requirement’

(This joke is losing its already limited appeal as HMG long since stopped using PSBR as a measure.)

Man: Doctor, doctor I am invisible until I eat my lunch

Doctor: I’m sorry, I can’t see you until this afternoon’

And this morning’s joke:

‘I have made friends with an amoeba who is into boxing and martial arts. I am trying to get him to buy my car.

It’s proving to be a hard cell’.

I know these aren’t very good but they are mine. I am intrigued as to how many other people can claim to have actually invented (rather than just rediscovered or retold) a joke.

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10 Comments on A (not very) funny thing happened on the way to John Adam Street…

  1. Alex on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:30 am

    2. I liked the one about the doctor.

  2. Stuart B on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:30 am

    3. Man: Doctor, doctor I am invisible until I eat my lunch
    Doctor: I’m sorry, I can’t see you until this afternoon’

    Not very good? This is a fabulous joke. I hope you don’t mind me using it from now on.

  3. Tessy on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:31 am

    4. For Laura B:

    A bear goes into a bar and says “can I have ……… a drink?’ And the barman says “why the big pause?” and the bear says “I’m a bear!”

  4. James on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:31 am

    5. Jokes are like New Year’s Eve – you are supposed to enjoy them/it, and the pressure of this makes both things oppressive and dreary – you end up getting drunk and falling out with your wife or laughing awkwardly as someone stares at you testingly.

  5. James on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:31 am

    6. Stop please. Jokes aren’t funny – this is an irrefutable truth, if you have any doubt read the jokes again. Matthew is quite funny when he isn’t joking and perhaps so are some of these other people. Inventing these things is like saying you have invented a new kind of foul smell from your orifices – it may be true, but what virtue is there in this?

  6. Tessy on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:31 am

    7. Are you OK Matthew?

  7. Laura Billings on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:32 am

    8. my favourite ever…

    a horse walks into a bar and the barman says “why the long face?”

  8. Anshuman on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:32 am

    9. An Englishman, and Irishman and a Scot are going to…

    Maybe I shouldn’t finish this one.

    But we’ve heard the other two jokes before Matthew, not the rabbit one. New material please.

  9. Rebecca Daddow on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:33 am

    10. Two sheep in a field…

    One goes ‘Baaaaaaaaaaa’

    The other turns round and says ‘thats funny, I was just about to say that!’

    I apologise…

  10. Rowland Manthorpe on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 9:33 am

    11. “Why don’t you want to be behind Satan in the queue for the Post Office?

    Because the devil takes many forms.”

    I feel justifiably proud of that one.

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