Bad Joke Friday

I love bad jokes. I blame my childhood love of the Muppet Show for this. Perhaps it was a misguided impression that Fozzie was really a good comedian, or just the vaudevillian/Henson nonsensical abusrdity. Actually, thinking about it, I love alternately absurd, clever, and completely stupid humor. This is not unrelated to an affection for the late Kurt Vonnegut.

The Muppet Show (mahna mahna)  led to a discovery of Monty Python (Ni!) in high school, which evolved into an obsession with Eddie Izzard (Winglebert Humptiback). Here is an evolution of jokes that have cracked me up over the course of my life (some have to be read out loud to be funny). The last one has been running in a local radio ad, and I am ashamed  to say that I crack up every time I hear it. What can I say, it's hard wired.

1985
What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
Time to get a new fence.

1995
What do you get when you mix an elephant and a rhino?
'Ell if I know.

2005
Two peanuts walked down the street.
One was assaulted.

What's your favorite bad joke?

Comments

[joann]

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs floating in the water?

bob

[Mom]

How much does a pirate pay to get his ears pierced?

A buck an ear!