Jokes / Joke du jour!

Laughter is a coping strategy against things we find uncomfortable. That's why jokes about 'others', those not 'us' are funny. The reduction in racist jokes over the last 30 years is due to an acceptance of different races and an understanding of our changing society. Likewise sexist jokes, not very funny to many today. I saw a jimmy Carr show with my parents -cue an hour of incest jokes, thanks Jimmy.

Monkeys laugh at leopards, not because those stupid spots remind them of Kat Slater, but because they are scared.

Maybe Obama liked Joan Rivers' work, modern humour often pokes fun at the comedian for holding outdated views, thus Obama may laugh at those who retain their 1950's viewpoint.

Or maybe he though she was a twat. I've heard he prefers cat memes anyway.

As a transvestite, I found River's tranny joke about Michelle Obama deeply offmusing.

do you reckon obama had her " offed "

(joke removed because it was so crap )

I think Rivers made a similar mistake to Frankie Boyle– offensive jokes, about the most offensive things you can think of, fine, but they have to be funny. Often they both said the most offensive thing they could think of purely because it was offensive, kind of for shock value. I'd still much rather comedians went too far than not far enough.

With a bit (lot) of surgery, Frankie Boyle would make a great new Joan Rivers.

There is something about Boyle which is knowing when he says the offensive stuff (not that I find it all that funny). When he peddles the shock value stuff he has a schoolboy excitement about him, a glint in his eye that says 'I'm going to push it here and you will laugh then you will recoil, then you might question the fact you laughed'.

Joan Rivers was just mean, and I always got the impression that she fucking meant it.

Many people would feel Boyle was just as 'mean' when he joked about Jordan's disabled son. It's definitely the early Rivers circa 1980 that I love. She is equally horrible about herself as anyone else. She had a vulnerability that Boyle lacks.

I was so ugly when I was born the nurse tried to shove me back in– "This one's not done yet!" My mother encouraged me to talk to strangers– "go ask that man for candy. Hey, do you have a van?" Did you ever have flasher button up on you? Peeping toms used to look in the window and pull down the blind. Mother used to say, "Why can't you be more like cousin shiela?" Cousin shiela had died at birth. etc.

Hand ringing about comedians thread >>>>

She starting doing comedy before most of the people that post on this thread were born... Even Teenslain.

Joan Rivers wasn't funny. Frankie Boyle could sometimes be brilliant, but most of his standup routine consisted of mentioning something a celeb or politician said or did, and then, rather than using that to set up a witty punch line, he would chuck it away and just say something insulting about their appearance. Not funny.

Joan Rivers wasn't funny.

Matter of taste I guess. Anyone know any jokes?

His Michael Jackson's Children's hospital sketch was genious though.

Was this him? Related anyway. Sorry if Repost.

Michael Jackson and the Pope are on a plane with a class of children. The engine catches fire, and the plane is going to crash, but there are only two parachutes. The Pope grabs one and hands the other to Michael saying "come one, let's save ourselves!" Michael Jackson says, "but what about the children?" "oh, fuck the children!" replies the Pope. "Um, I don't think we have time." Says Michael.

The inventor of sandbags has died. Tributaries have been flooding in.

The inventor of perforated paper followed but a few short hours later.
RIP.

s.t.o.l.e.n.

I keep my comedy DVDs in the shed and my music mags in the bedroom.

Gotta keep your Friends close but your NMEs closer

A female journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time.

So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site.

She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, using a cane and moving very slowly, she approached him for an interview.

"Pardon me, sir, what's your name?"
"Morris Feinberg," he replied.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Western Wall and praying?"
"For about 60 years."
"60 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims."
"I pray for all the wars and all the hatred to stop."
"I pray for all our children to grow up safely as responsible adults and to love their fellow man."
"I pray that politicians tell us the truth and put the interests of the people ahead of their own interests."

"How do you feel after doing this for 60 years?"

"Like I'm talking to a fucking wall"

heh

2/10

Does anyone know any hitler jokes?

..sort-of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMdwA8GWB8

That was worthwile, thank you
Hitler is responsible for the deaths of more innocents
but Knye might still be the bigger douche

what do you call a pair of crows?
an attempted murder