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It's no joke.

A cracker contains a small toy, a paper hat and a piece of paper with a joke.

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

You're probably going to think this is a joke, but I was a punk rocker when I was a kid.

The joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side is an example of "anti-humor": meant to be funny because, on the surface, it is not.

What kind of jokes should be forbidden?

Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up.

In fact, there is a joke about passport photos: If you really look like the picture in your passport, you certainly need a vacation!

An Englishman, a Belgian and a Dutchman enter a pub and sit down at the counter. Says the barkeeper, "Wait a minute, is this a joke or what?"

Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!

Christopher Columbus once used the same joke 256 times in one day... thereby causing his entire crew to die of laughter.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.

If you repeat a joke two hundred fifty six times, it will set everybody's teeth on edge.

They gagged him with his own silk tie.

The hostages were bound and gagged

That standup comedian had a few good gags.

Just the smell of liver cooking makes me gag. I tried my best to eat it but the meat was so fatty I gagged on it.

Service chiefs gagged: two quit

The government is trying to gag the press over the issue.

He was talking too much, so I gagged him.