Joke
A joke is something said, written or done to make people laugh. There are many kinds of jokes; they can be questions with surprising answers or stories with unexpected endings. The humour of a joke comes from the surprise.
Jokes can be about anything. Jokes can be found anywhere: on the Internet, in books or heard from friends. Some jokes are about groups of people and can hurt people's feelings, for example if they are racist, homophobic or sexist.
Jokes are used in comedy, plays and movies.
Jokes could take the form of sarcasm or even try to poke fun at something to get a point across. People sometimes get hurt by jokes at them. If a joke is used to show a problem in someone's thought, it is normally called satire.
There are also practical jokes.
Joke Media
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.[1]
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud")
Charles Darwin in his later years
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Related pages
Other websites
- "Jokes at Open Directory". dmoz.org. Archived from the original on 28 July 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
