What Happened to the Joke?

[Yevrah]

It dawned on me yesterday that I can't remember the last time someone told me a joke.

Have people stopped telling them?

Is this another thing Tony Blair and/or the internet killed?

[Giggles]

This is very true and I hadn't even noticed til you said. Not heard one in a long time.

[Reg]

People are probably typing them as Facebook statuses or tweets instead of talking out loud.

[simon]

Closest thing you get to hearing a joke these days is someone handing you their phone so that you can watch a six second Vine they've found on Facebook.

[Yevrah]

So the internet killed them then?

Shame, they were great.

[mugbull]

Nah, they weren't that great. Stories were always better.

[Luca]

Sarcasm and/or irony probably killed the concept of "telling a joke."

[Raoul Duke]

Stand-up comedy is still going strong.

I think jokes kinda got replaced by random lulz in WhatsApp or something.

[QE Harold Flair]

I never liked the obvious jokes with a punchline. If someone started telling you one you felt pressured to laugh whther it's funny or not. Nothing more awkard than laughing before thre punchline.

[Yevrah]

You felt pressured to laugh?

[QE Harold Flair]

Yes, that's correct. It's kind of rude not to, depending on who's telling it and in what situation.

[Yevrah]

You must be completely different in real life to how you are on here if you genuinely feel like that.

[Jeet]

There was one in the Stoke area today around 5:30pm onwards

[QE Harold Flair]

No, I'm exactly the same. When I go to play football on weekends we talk about immigration and Muslims non-stop.

[Jeet]

Good job you don't support Millwall.

[Pepe]

It dawned on me yesterday that I can't remember the last time someone told me a joke.

Have people stopped telling them?

Is this another thing Tony Blair and/or the internet killed?

That's a good point. You don't hear them very often anymore. My friends in Mexico still tell some once in a while when I talk to them, but that hardly ever happens anymore. Reminds me of one of my father's friends who knew a tremendous amount of jokes. That man was hilarious.


Nah, they weren't that great. Stories were always better.

Nonsense.


Sarcasm and/or irony probably killed the concept of "telling a joke."

I think those two have existed for as long as jokes have.


I think jokes kinda got replaced by random lulz in WhatsApp or something.

Probably true. Real shame as telling a joke properly is a true art.

[Disco]

I heard one today.

[QE Harold Flair]

Telling a good joke, for me, can only be done through someone who tells a good story, or perhaps sasm at the expense of one's self or someone else. That twat who makes one-liners at a rapid rate (I forget his name), I just can't abide that sort of delivery.

[Mellberg]

I let people know I don't find jokes funny as they go to tell them, yet they always persist. Never registered with me.

[Danny]

Telling a good joke, for me, can only be done through someone who tells a good story, or perhaps sasm at the expense of one's self or someone else. That twat who makes one-liners at a rapid rate (I forget his name), I just can't abide that sort of delivery.

Tim Vine and hes quality

[John Arne]

What's better than winning gold at the Paralymipics?
Getting away with murder.

Oscar Pistorius is to spend the next four years living with his uncle.
I bet his uncle is shitting himself...
Because it's safer than going to the toilet.

My wife's star sign was cancer and it's quite ironic how she died really...
She was attacked by a giant crab.

I met a 14yr old girl on the Internet. She was clever, funny, flirty and sexy, so I suggested that we meet up.
She turned out to be an undercover detective.
How cool is that at her age?!

Disabled toilets. Ironically the only toilets big enough to run around in.

I was working late at the Carphone Warehouse when I received this text from my daughter..
'Dad.Thespacebuttonisfaultyonthisphone.Whenyougeth omepleasegivemeanalternative.'
And as I rushed home and couldn't help but thinking...
What the hell does 'ternative' mean?

[Angelsaint]

No, I'm exactly the same. When I go to play football on weekends we talk about immigration and Muslims non-stop.

:D

Simply genius.

[Magic]

The heady days of Sickopedia are long gone. Its a new format now in the shape of vines/memes etc. Jokes are boring.

[Spammer]

What did the farmer say when he couldn't find his tractor?

WHERE'S MY TRACTOR!?!?!!!!1

Omg lol

[Spammer]

What do you call an alligator in a vest?

AN INVESTIGATOR

[ItalAussie]

No, I'm exactly the same. When I go to play football on weekends we talk about immigration and Muslims non-stop.

Credit where it's due, this was a good line. :D

[Offshore Toon]

Unless I come up with a joke myself I doubt I'd share one. Most jokes circulated are just rehashed versions of older jokes, so they're pretty much all boring now.

[QE Harold Flair]

Tim Vine and hes quality

I find him distinctly unfunny. I mean, I appreciate the skill to come up with all those jokes, but that kind of delivery of constant one liners becomes unfunny very quickly for me.

[Giggles]

I find Vine awful. I don't mind that style, but he really isn't very good and is more annoying than anything.

[Benny]

Grandad's tell the best jokes, especially when they're surprisingly dirty. My ex's grandad used to tell some really funny ones out of nowhere, which were smutty but still sophisticated, unlike today where you get some gimp like Magic trying to shock you with sickopedia jokes.

[Giggles]

I can't imagine Magic liking actual jokes anyway. He really doesn't seem the type.

[Lewis]

I think he made the comparison himself, but I imagine Magic's real life humour to be like Limmy's depressed plasterer.

[Angelsaint]

Grandad's tell the best jokes, especially when they're surprisingly dirty.
Wtf? It's only me that reacts to this? A grandad telling dirty jokes.
That would be unlimited amounts of money on shrinks.

[Magic]

My doctor advised me to stay away from trans fats.

So I deleted my Tumblr account.

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