Did you know that the oldest one-liner still works and is about when the king goes to and the barber asks how he wants his hair cut. The king replies: in silence.
Your kids aren’t the only ones who like potty humor. That’s the topic of the world’s oldest recorded joke–dating all the way back to 1900 B.C.
The joke, told by the Sumerians, a people who lived in what is now southern Iraq in one of the earliest known civilizations of the world, was found inscribed on stone tablets. It went like this, according to researchers from Britain’s University of Wolverhampton: “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
OK, maybe you had to be there.
“Jokes have varied over the years, with some taking the question and answer format while others are witty proverbs or riddles,” the report’s lead author Paul McDonald, senior lecturer at the university, told The Daily Mail. “What they all share however, is a willingness to deal with taboos and a degree of rebellion. Modern puns, Essex girl jokes and toilet humor can all be traced back to the very earliest jokes identified in this research.”
The university researched and published the top 10 oldest jokes. Here are the other nine:
The oldest one-liner still works and is about when the king goes to and the barber asks how he wants his hair cut. The king replies: in silence
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