I was thinking, a lot of stand up comedians get accused of stealing jokes. The thing is, they’ll steal a joke, put a little variation to it to fit with their act. If their variation is no good, it dies there, but if is good then others will see it and steal the joke as well. Then they’ll add a little variation and process repeats. Eventually all the variations added into a joke from it being constantly stolen will result in a completely different joke.
Anyway, my theory is that all jokes are stolen from some knock-knock joke a caveman told thousands of years ago.
Cavemen told knock-knock jokes? What did they knock on? Caves aren’t known for their doors. Perhaps they Knock-knocked on their foreheads…”Hello,…Hello…Anybody home?…Think McFly…”
I’m left feeling a bit let down. I fully expected this to lead into how amatuer hour at the whitehouse resulted from somemany unable to tell a joke being left in charge of entertainment, and so far failing miserably.
Who do you steal your jokes from, Frank?
I know the first joke ever told.
“Me not have to outrun saber tooth tiger, me only have to outrun you!”
The Aristocrats!!!
Jokes don’t evolve, they’re created.
Thag says, “Og, see this rock? Knock! Knock!”
Og says, “OUCH! Why Thag knock me on head with rock?”
Thag says, “Is seminal moment in all comedy routines of the future…. This is the Ur-Joke!”
Og says, “I will steal your joke, modify it by using my club instead of a rock, and try it on you.”
Thag complains about Og stealing his joke, until he goes unconscious from being clubbed.
au contraire……before there were knock-knock jokes, there were farts. Farts are the root of all humor.
Mikeee, the way I heard it……
The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd.
The speaker and His Holiness, however, have seen it all before. To make it a little more interesting, the speaker says to the Pope, “Did You know that with just one little wave of my hand I can make every Democrat in the crowd go wild?”
He doubts it, so she shows him. Sure enough, the wave elicits rapture and cheering from every democrat in the crowd. Gradually, the cheering subsides.
The Pope, not wanting to be out done by such a level of arrogance, considers what he could do.
“That was impressive, the Pope says, “But did you know that with just one little wave of MY hand I can make EVERY person in the crowd go crazy with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display like that of your subjects, but will go deep into their hearts, and they will forever speak of this day and rejoice.”
The speaker seriously doubts this, and says so. “One little wave of your hand and all people will rejoice forever? Show me.”
So the Pope slapped her.
Deafdog: hadn’t heard that one….LOVE IT!
BTW, Frank, I don’t really think you steal jokes. 😉
Deafdog — tell it again! Again!! Again!!! Again!!!! Can we give the Pope a sidearm for the next variation?
FrankJ doesn’t steal jokes.
It’s more like kidnaps them off the street and keeps them down a dry well in his basement until “It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.”
The Three Stooges stole all their gags from Og, Thag and Grok
Actually, it was the Bee Gees. But it was a fail.
Three Stooges? They just slapped their j0kes togrther. Nyuck nyuck nyuck. I understand a new Stoogs movie is under consideration. They will be Barak, Joe, and Rahm.
Stevend – I think you must be right – 1st Joke ever told:
“Pull finger”
And the first racial grudge was when Og hit Ook over the head with a rock. It’s amazing how old some of these are.
The New Three Stooges: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6s6CdLQRCP0/SpN4IwllSFI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/gFxeEihS1gg/s1600-h/Stooges_Title.gif
It’s hard to beat fart jokes! They like totally rule.
I fart, therfore I am.
Leading, inevitably, to Descartes’ often misquoted axiom: “I stink, therefore I am”
Fart not funny when stand too close by fire, though.
Smoke ring farts funny.
Yes the fart joke, the oldest joke known to man.
* T.N. Amaps says:
Jokes don’t evolve, they’re created.
Looking at the more prominent female comedians, it’s safe to say their comedy certainly isn’t a product of ID. I’m going along with Frank on this one; it’s humor evolution.
So if you’ve ever watched Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho, Grossie-O, or Janeane Garofailo, you can clearly see them getting back to their roots:
“Sarah Palin dumb. Me no like her & want her get raped by big black cavemen. Except cavemen dumber than cavewomen. Worshipers of Caveman in Sky dumb, too. Un-Liberal cavemen really dumb…”
And their routines never evolve too far past that. If fish are analogous to female genitalia, then these jokers are the Coelacanths of Comedy.
@ # 3 PammyV sez….Who do you steal your jokes from, Frank?
Since when did Frank start doing jokes?
I thought Robert Byrd was the oldest joke known to man.