joke
short fictional story with the intent to make people laugh
viola joke
category of joke directed towards viola and viola players
The Aristocrats
usually-obscene joke about a performance act
anecdote joke
popular form of Russian (and not only) humor, short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line
lawyer joke
jokes about lawyers
milkman joke
jokes about women having sex with house visitors
throwaway line
joke delivered "in passing" without being the punch line to a comedy routine
We begin bombing in five minutes
joke made by President Reagan during the Cold War
interesting number paradox
logical contradiction in which every possible solution to the problem is exempt: if there were some uninteresting natural numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number, which would be therefore interesting
pieing
act of throwing a pie at a person or people
Manta joke
stereotype joke about Opel Manta drivers
Tom Swifty
a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed
Fundamental theorem of software engineering
term in the field of software engineering
weather rock
humorous weather forecasting tool
Bielefeld conspiracy
popular satire about the city of Bielefeld
whisper joke
joke said secretly, usually to avoid oppression
in-joke
form of humor
dick joke
joke about male genitals or related behavior
Microsoft joke
bogus 1994 press release
one-line joke
joke that is delivered in a single line
Lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend
Maritime urban legend related to the dangers of hubris and inflexibility
ethnic joke
joke based on assumptions about a specific ethnic group
Bellman joke
form of Swedish joke, about a person named Bellman
prank call
practical joke done over the telephone
mathematical joke
humor about mathematics or mathematicians
island joke
class of joke about being stranded on a deserted island
dad joke
type of short joke
Lumber Cartel
facetious conspiracy theory popularized on USENET
three wishes joke
common type of story joke
wind-up doll joke
jokes about what dolls of various people would do
Russian reversal
joke type in which the subject and objects of a statement are reversed
redneck joke
joke series about rural, working-class Americans
drummer joke
humour at the expense of people who play drums
Acre conspiracy
satirical conspiracy theory
shaggy dog story
intentionally-long joke ending in an anticlimax
maternal insult
insulting reference to someone's mother
lightbulb joke
jokes of the form "How many does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
bar joke
jokes about someone walking into a tavern