The 50 Funniest Jokes Ever (According to One Paper)

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NY Post   |  LARRY GETLEN, SARA STEWART and REED TUCKER   |   April 6, 2008 10:08 AM


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According to some of the funniest people on earth, these are the 50 most hilarious jokes of the last 12 months, whether they were told in nightclubs, on television or around a platter of fries at a late-night diner meal. Feel free to incite your own laugh riot.

Roseanne

A doctor tells a guy: "I have bad news. You have Alzheimer's, and you have cancer." Guy says, "Thank God I don't have cancer."

Jackie Mason

Hillary Clinton says she's the most qualified because she was married to a president for eight years. Now let me ask you, if a brain surgeon quit his job, would everyone in the operating room say, "Wait, let's get his wife."

Lisa Lampanelli

I was watching Gene Simmons' TV show, "Family Jewels." Or as it's known in the business, " 'The Osbournes' Without the Talented Father."

Laura Kightlinger

After miraculously surviving two heart surgeries, pneumonia and a mild stroke, at 82 my grandfather was no longer able to care for himself. Now he lives with my aunt who spoon-feeds him, takes him to the bathroom, etc. Proof that what doesn't kill you makes you a burden to someone else.

Bill Maher

Barack Obama bowled a 37. Is he black enough for you now?

Bobby Slayton

I got a teenage daughter and a menopausal wife. One's getting breasts, one's getting whiskers. My life is over.

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A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:04 PM on 04/08/2008

A horse walks into a bar.

The bartender says, "Why the long face?"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:18 PM on 04/08/2008

Hey, I got it the first time. Sheesh!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:04 PM on 04/08/2008


a man is about to go into the desert for 2 years,
nobody knows why,
but jokes often demand such harsh terms.

he tells his best friend -
if i'm not back in two years
i want you to be with my wife -
here is the key to her chastity belt.
his friend solemnly takes the key and bows.

the man heads off into the desert, alone on a horse (as jokes sometimes go).
he is a couple miles out of town when a whirlwind of dust
approaches him from the town he left.
he is baffled by the unexpected tornado.

he slows his horse and turns,
and it is his best friend.

"wrong key." his friend tells him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:36 AM on 04/08/2008

Why is the Brokeback Mountain joke supposed to be funny?

Anyone? I don't get it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:28 AM on 04/08/2008

Watching Bill Maher interview Sen. Arlen Specter, he said that He wished he would have been the running mate of either George Bush. Why? Because then the ticket would have been "Bush & Specter". (hint: sound it out).

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:10 AM on 04/08/2008

Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: That's not funny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:43 PM on 04/07/2008

Emo Philips
Cellphones are like a dog's nipples. You don't have to shout into them!

That has got to be the funniest thing I've read in a long time!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:11 PM on 04/07/2008

Two old ladies on a park bench. Guy walks up and flashes them. One old lady had a stroke. The other couldn't quite reach that far.

Skeleton walks into a bar. Says, "gimme a beer and a mop."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:04 PM on 04/07/2008

None of those were all that funny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:04 PM on 04/07/2008

I was going to say that these jokes killed when they were spoken live.
But I don't think we have enough evidence to convict...

[ba-doomp boomp!]

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:37 PM on 04/07/2008

How many women with pms does it take to screw in a lightbulb.

One goddammit!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:20 PM on 04/07/2008

Henny Youngman: A hooker walked up to me on the street and said, "I'll do anything you want for $50." I said, "OK. Paint my house."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:33 PM on 04/07/2008

Wow, how unfunny. And a quarter of them are racist. Oh wait, they're just jokes, I shouldn't take it so seriously...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:42 PM on 04/07/2008

they forgot the best joke of all: Hillary saying the race is close

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:14 AM on 04/07/2008

Obama is up by about 8.5% in delegates but only 3% in popular, much less if FL and MI weren't blocked by his campaign in a revote (.6%!). He won't have enough to win without superdelegates and the most important state next to OH is being entirely disenfranchised. I remember another candidate who won the white house because FL wasn't allowed to vote.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:40 PM on 04/07/2008

Sigh! This isn't funny, but I have to set the record straight.

Florida and Michigan ****aren't**** blocked by Obama's campaign. They are "blocked" by MI and FL's refusal to follow the rules of the Democratic party.

It went down exactly like this:

1) MI and FL party leaders tried to have their primaries early, so they could have more weight than the rest of the other states
2) the heads of the Democratic party said no, don't do that.
3) MI and FL heads said "We'll do it anyway"
4) the heads of the Democratic party said "if you do that, we'll strip your delegates, because we're not allowing you to screw up the primary schedule."
5) MI and FL said "we dare you"
6) Hillary Clinton had her name on the ballot in MI, while Obama and Edwards played by the rules and didn't put their names on the ballot
7) Hillary campaigned in FL, while Obama and Edwards played by the rules and did not
8) Hillary is holding onto the possibility of delegates from MI and FL, because it is one of the few fingernail-hold longshots she has left - and even with those delegates, Obama still has her beat.

Calling this "disenfranchisement" is a bunch of crap. That's all there is to it. Period, the end.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:55 PM on 04/07/2008

*Sigh. I was making a joke, because this is a joke post, but here we go.

A primary is a race for delegates. Period. That's the goal. All this talk of popular vote, or electoral vote, is crap.

For those football fans out there: what is the objective of the game? To score more points. You can measure total yards for a team, but it really doesn't matter except to see that if a team has more yards, but less points, well then they really didn't convert when they needed to.

All it means is the team with less points . . . lost. Period.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:41 PM on 04/07/2008

what's red, blue, orange and looks great on hippies?

fire!

Try the veal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:41 AM on 04/07/2008

You just made these 50 jokes seem slightly funnier in comparison.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:35 PM on 04/07/2008

When you say killer jokes, is it a reference to the comedian dying on stage. Some of them are among t he worst jokes I've ever heard.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:35 AM on 04/07/2008

I agree. The only one that made me chuckle was the one about Obama's bowling.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:18 AM on 04/07/2008

I don't think Bill Mahr's that funny. Especially last episode of Real Time...I mean jeez! Rich, white men asking what's the problem between Latinos and Blacks. Or--

(Paraphrased) "Black communities are now called 'urban' which is odd since they were brought over to work the fields. ".

I think the black community has progressed in cultural importance since 1865, but that's just me.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 AM on 04/07/2008

I watched the show. There was a black woman congressional representative from CA, a latino actor/activist, a white former Clinton administration man and a black woman conservative comentator.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:30 PM on 04/07/2008

They were pretty unfunny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:53 PM on 04/06/2008

Most of these jokes are only funny to those who live for humor based on celebrities or for humor that puts people down for being old, or for not being physically attractive according to normative standards, or for being women. Most of these jokes aren't funny, they're just plain mean and superficial. Topical humor is shallow and disposable and few of these jokes will have a shelf life past this spring.

Big surprise: the list is printed in the goddamn New York Post. Cannot understand what that shit is doing on a supposedly progressive website.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:00 PM on 04/06/2008

The New York Post a progressive newspaper ? That's a great joke!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 PM on 04/07/2008

My three favourite jokes:

1) From Elayne Boosler: "The Vatican just announced that they are against surrogate parenthood. Ooh, I'm glad they didn't have that rule when JESUS was born!"

2) Tony Danza commenting on the O.J. Simpson trial back on the old "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" show: "Hitler left less clues."

3) Gilbert Gotfriend doing an impersonation of Elmer Fudd as Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now": "The howwa, the howwa. He-he-he-he-he"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:04 PM on 04/06/2008

That Elaine Boosler joke was pretty good. One of my favorite jokes was Loni Love's joke that goes something like "Everybody's looking for Osama. He's 65 years old and he's got a bad kidney. They don't need the Army or the Marines. Send Anna Nicole Smith over there. She'll find him." Of course it was funnier back in 2002-2003.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:44 PM on 04/09/2008

Bad list except for the bowling joke.

Guy walks into a bar and sits down. While there he notices a large pickle jar full of tens. He asks the bartender. "What's up with the jar full of tens?".

Bartender says that's money from guys who lost the following bet.

"See that big man at the end of the bar? You gotta knock him out with one punch."

"SO?" the guys says, "BUT" the bartender continues, "THEN you have to go in the back where we have a 150 pound mean asses Rottweiller that has a bad tooth that needs to be extracted. THEN we got a hooker in the back that has never had an orgasm and you have to get her off. You do all three of those things and the jar of tens is yours."

DAMN! Thinks the guy, that just ain't worth it. BUT after more than a handful of strong drinks he figure what the hell and drops ten bucks in the jar, walks over to the big guy at the end of the bar... BAM! Knocks him out with one punch. THEN he goes to the back room where the Rottweiler is and the bartender hears all sorts of barking, growling, things being thrown around the room and then finally a YELP.

The drunk guy walks out of the room pulling his pants and zipper up and then says, "NOW WHERE IS THAT HOOKER WITH THE BAD TOOTH!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:44 PM on 04/06/2008

~45 completely unfunny jokes. ~4 mildly funny. One that actually made me laugh out loud:

Bill Maher

Barack Obama bowled a 37. Is he black enough for you now?

Go ahead, call me a racist. I laugh at jokes that take me completely by surprise.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:57 PM on 04/06/2008

YOU'RE RIGHT.

That was the only genuinely funny one of the bunch, though I also liked the one comparing Hillary to a brain surgeon's wife.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 PM on 04/06/2008

funniest man on tv is Craig Ferguson at 12:37am in the morn. retired oldsters should take a nap in the eve and then try him....real letloose chuckle talent is very hard to find in 2008!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:54 PM on 04/06/2008

hey seniorsimon - try a dvr and watch him any ol' time you want.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 AM on 04/07/2008



"Soylent Green is STILL people"

-----The late Charlton Heston RIP

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:19 PM on 04/06/2008

AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF CHARLTON HESTON (and since they closed his obit to comments)....

Did they have to pry his gun from his stiff, dead fingers?

(In case you've forgotten, Heston was president of the NRA for a while back.)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:21 PM on 04/06/2008

This is satire, right? Those people couldn't really think those jokes are funny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:00 PM on 04/06/2008
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