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Many of them delight in imagining a real person at the door, upset at not being allowed to enter: They are self-conscious, dismantling their own apparatus, creating jokes about the absurdity of jokes.Ī little old lady. Many of these brainier knock-knock jokes have what one might call a Post-Modern flavour.
Once you have mastered the Starter Level - Teresa Green - you go on to Intermediate - A Mosquito - and so on, right up to the PhD level. Like Maths and Philosophy, knock-knock jokes offer different levels of expertise. That one still strikes me as funny, but to anyone unfamiliar with President Kennedy’s famous speech (‘Ask not what your country can do for you.’) it is meaningless. Sadly, the moment a joke requires explanation, it stops being a joke and becomes a problem.Īstronaut what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. ‘But what does Sam and Janet evening MEAN?’ In my more downmarket schoolboy circle, the person on the receiving end of the joke would occasionally look bewildered. Some knock-knock jokes run the danger of becoming too clever for their own good. Their most famous member, Dorothy Parker, invented this one: They are self-conscious, dismantling their own apparatus, creating jokes about the absurdity of jokes (stock image)īack in the 1920s, the famous round table of wits at the Algonquin Hotel in New York had a fad for telling knock-knock jokes, some of them slightly racy. We would all come back to school after the holidays refreshed with a new batch. Like most of my friends, I found that once you got started, it was hard to stop. Nearly 60 years after I heard my first knock-knock joke, they are still going strong. Which brings me to a recent survey conducted among residents of Nottingham, which found that one in five Britons under the age of 30 have never heard a knock- knock joke.īut the optimists among us might prefer to see it another way: knock-knock jokes are still so popular that four out of five young Britons are familiar with them.
This struck me then - and still strikes me now - as irritatingly wordy and complicated.īut most of my schoolfriends persisted through the dud Teresa and Isabel jokes to the sunny knock-knock uplands beyond. We would all come back to school after the holidays refreshed with a new batch (stock image)