So as I was driving to
Brenham from
Waco this weekend, I had an epiphany in the car. I often get epiphanies at random solitary times, so I wasn’t surprised by the arrival of this one. However, generally when one gets an epiphany, it is about some monumental thing. Well this time it was about knock knock jokes. I don’t believe them to be real jokes anymore. I feel they are just a ploy for you to demonstrate how funny you think you are and how not funny everyone else thinks you are. If you break down a knock knock joke you can discover a few of things.
1. When has an object or a phrase ever knocked on your door? I can pretty much say never for me. I don’t run to the door at the sound of a knock to find an orange sitting there. I ask “who’s there?” and he says “orange.” Maybe you are different and may I say potentially a bit crazy.
2. When has there ever been an object or phrase that has a last name. “Oh you say you you are orange, ah well I know a lot of those, you would be Orange who?” Now I know these are jokes and they don’t have to be realistic by any means, but they are rarely funny.
3. I have discovered that the “(insert object or phrase) who?” part of the joke isn’t even necessary. Someone could say “knock knock” “who’s there?” “(insert object or phrase)” and then the victim could just as easily say nothing in response and the joke would still work. The “who” part of the joke has little importance. The only real importance I could discover in that line is the joke teller is making sure the victim is really understanding the main point of the joke. It is almost as if the joke teller is saying “OK I am about to say something I think is really funny, but you might not find it funny unless you truly understand the word that this joke centers around so go ahead and repeat my central joke word followed by ‘who’ and get ready for my matchless laughter.” I have decided that next time someone offers a knock knock joke to me and we get to the “who” part, I am going to just nod or say “..uh uh” as if to induce them to press on.
4. Finally, I have discovered that the real point of the joke is to show someone else how a word or phrase can be interchangeable with another word or phrase. Couldn’t this all be accomplished by saying: “hey buddy, listen how this word or phrase can be turned into another word or phrase, isn’t that nifty?” I feel you could get the same response.
Just putting that out there. With that being said,
here are some jokes for your reading pleasure.
