Trump: the deathmatch (19-07)
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Jun 2019
3:54pm, 19 Jun 2019
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GregP
NTE in big trouble.
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Jun 2019
4:36pm, 19 Jun 2019
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SailorSteve
I believe there was a tv programme (fronted by Michael Grade) dedicated to establishing evidence of the earliest recorded gag. Turned out that this was attributed to some roman scribblings that described a “fart” joke. Irresistible it seems.
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Jun 2019
4:40pm, 19 Jun 2019
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GlennR
It was something along the lines of "once a woman sat on her boyfriend's lap and didn't fart". My faulty memory tells me it was Greek, but I don't trust it and I'm not going to google "fart jokes" in order to check.
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Jun 2019
4:43pm, 19 Jun 2019
22,982 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Do you think they had Stand Up comics on as light relief from the gladiatorial stuff, or would have all that gone at down at the Peoples Front of Judea Comedy club?
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Jun 2019
4:49pm, 19 Jun 2019
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SailorSteve
Happy to go with the Greek angle GlennR. In either case it seems you “had to be there” to get full effect, as it were.
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Jun 2019
4:53pm, 19 Jun 2019
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GregP
I recall someone reasonably credible claiming that the first recorded joke in the English language was the one about Joan of Arc and a canoe. Which incidentally I still think is funny.
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Jun 2019
4:55pm, 19 Jun 2019
43,112 posts
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GlennR
Don't know it. Please share.
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Jun 2019
4:56pm, 19 Jun 2019
43,113 posts
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GlennR
Logic, such as it is, tells me that the word canoe came into the English language after the Elizabethan period, when there were plenty of jokes.
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Jun 2019
5:02pm, 19 Jun 2019
20,951 posts
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Maclennane
such as this shakespearean gem: 1st witch: "How doeth one maketh Tom Cruise shorter?" Macbeth (for twas he): I knoweth not, old crone". 1st witch: "Asketh him to standeth up!!". < All three witches cackle and over act.> |
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Jun 2019
5:02pm, 19 Jun 2019
112,857 posts
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GregP
What's the difference between Joan of Arc and a canoe?
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