Jokes and Anecdotes Literature Folklore

Jokes are short, funny, fictional tales, usually ending in a punchline. Common types of jokes are numskull jokes (about naivete and foolishness), political jokes, sexual jokes, moron jokes, and immigrant jokes. Anecdotes are short, humoristic legends told about famous people or local characters.

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• Examples of "Knock-Knock" Jokes - One of the most common juvenile humor forms literature in English.
• Examples of "Confucius Say, ..." Jokes - Includes introduction to this juvenile English-language word-play humor.
• Senator Johnson's Great Speech - Anecdote excerpted from Vance Randolph\\'s classic "Pissing in the Snow, folklore and other Ozark Folktales," with comment.
• Bluejay's Review of Jokes - Discussion by Michael Bluejay on the psychology of jokes and anecdotes folklore the traditional and the absurd joke.
• Making a Big Apple Crumble - Monograph by Bill Ellis studying the emergence of folklore WTC humor jokes and anecdotes as a phenomenon.
• Selections from Pissing in the Snow - Excerpted from Vance Randolph\\'s classic "Pissing in the literature Snow, and folklore other Ozark Folktales."
• Selections from Legman's "Rationale of the Dirty Joke" - Excerpts from the section on foreigner jokes.
• 20 Years of Political Humor - Treatise of political jokes form Alan Dundes' collection.

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