World’s Funniest Joke
Apparently this is the world’s funniest joke:
Two New Jersey hunters go hunting. After a while, one of the hunters clutches his throat and falls to the ground, his eyes roll back, and he’s lying there motionless. The other one picks up a cell phone, dials 911, and says, “I think my friend is dead! I don’t know what to do!” And the operator says, “Just relax. Calm down. The first thing to do is to make certain your friend is dead.” There’s a pause – then a gunshot. And the hunter gets back on the phone and says, “Okay. Now what?”
Ha ha. Okay. Funny, but you’ve heard much funnier ones, right?
The above is actually the result of some serious effort: a survey which ran for a year, testing how some 350,000 participants reacted to 40,000 jokes, initiated by Richard Wiseman, head of a psychology research department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. This is the joke that “the most people found reasonably funny, and that it would be unreasonable to expect any joke to be universally judged superior to all others.”
See Wikipedia for the runner-up, and the top joke in the UK.
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