Ananova fails to report what Laughlab's researchers found to be UK's funniest joke:
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!" The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me!". The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off - go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you".
Dear God that is rubbish. Has science come undone?
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also: did nobody alert them to the existence of "My wife went on holiday to Poole"?
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
haha
― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
Two cowboys walk into a roadhouse in Texas to wash the trail dust from their throats. They stand at the bar, drinking a beer and talking about currentcattle prices.
Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table, who is eating a sandwich, begins tocough. After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress.
One of the cowboys looks at her and says "Kin ya swaller?"
The woman shakes her head, No.
"Kin ya breathe?"
The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head. The cowboy walks over tothe woman, lifts up the back of her dress, yanks down her panties, and runshis tongue all over her butt cheeks in a circular motion.
The woman is so shocked, that she has a violent spasm and theobstruction flies out of her mouth. As she begins to breathe again, thecowboy walks slowly back to the bar and takes a drink from his beer.
His partner says, "Ya know, I'd heard of that there"Hind Lick manoeuver" but I ain't never seen nobody do it".
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
I find this funny.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
they laugh at jokes about monkeys=they are monkeys obv.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
The thing is I really like that joke's uselessness, the monkey baby one is just boring.
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
'Sex no worse for the heart than walking upstairs'
hahaha
― Ray M (rdmanston), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
But this is a sign of a lack of a sense of humour, surely? If you have a sense of humour you can tell whether something is funny or not....
"My cat just died".
Klaus: "Hahahahahahaha!"
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ray M (rdmanston), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
A Turtle is walking down an alley in New York when he is mugged by a gang of snails. A detective comes to investigate and asks the turtle what happened. The turtle looks confused and replies "I don't know, it all happened so fast".
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lek Dukagjin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
A patient says, "Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip, I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: 'Could you please pass the butter?'
"But instead I said: 'You silly cow, you have completely ruined my life."'
This is an excellent joke.
-- The most frequently submitted joke, at 300 times, was: "What's brown and sticky? A stick."
Researchers said no one ever found it funny.
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've always heard the punchline to that one as, "I FUCKING WISH YOU WOULD DIE, BITCH!"
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
[I didn't laugh at the Welsh one but think it is a nice joke and shows the Welsh in a good light]
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
What?! It's hilarious!
― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W (Jeff W), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Funny enough, but why in the hell are the characters weasels? Would the joke suffer any if they were, say, badgers? Or people?
― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I knew someone would say that one...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 October 2002 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Top joke in Germany
A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That's not it” and put it down again. This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army. The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That's it.”
from http://www.laughlab.co.uk/topByCountry.html
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 3 October 2002 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
What's the difference between a baby and a brick?You can't eat a brick.
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donna (donna), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donna (donna), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Absolutely FabulousThe Vicar Of DibleyYes, MinisterThe one about the retirement home, can't remember the nameCouplingFather TedMonty PythonFawlty TowersRed DwarfCrackerInspector MorseMonarch of the GlenTrading SpacesGround ForceCoronation StreetUpstairs, DownstairsBlake's 7Doctor WhoTop Of The PopsWhose Line Is It, Anyway?Are You Being Served?Keeping Up AppearancesThe newsWaking The DeadEastenders*insert name of British show here*
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
An inspired answer. Dan's list is of course incredibly accurate in general vis-a-vis Seinfeld, which was designed to make most of America wish to find Manhattan dwellers and abuse them.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Baldrick : Don't worry mister B, I have a cunning plan to solve the problem.Blackadder : Yes Baldrick, let us not forget that you tried to solve the problem of your mother's low ceiling by cutting off her head.
― C J (C J), Thursday, 3 October 2002 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
What's the difference between a truck full of bowling balls and one full of babies?
You can't unload the bowling balls with a pitchfork!
― Lek Dukagjin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
A: He looks like he's six when his hair is wet.
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Waiting for God? *smashes walking stick into feeding sparrows*
You didn't mention Black Books or the first three series of Drop the Dead Donkey, so I'm going to cry and everyone else is going to point and laugh at me for watching DTDD. Sniffle.
― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 October 2002 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 24 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-one years ago) link