Joke facts for kids
A joke is something said, written or done to make people laugh. There are many kinds of jokes; they can be questions with surprising answers or stories with unexpected endings. The humour of a joke comes from the surprise.
Jokes can be about anything. Jokes can be found anywhere: on the Internet, in books or heard from friends. Some jokes are about groups of people and can hurt people's feelings, for example if they are racist or sexist.
Jokes are used in comedy, plays and movies.
Jokes could take the form of sarcasm or even try to poke fun at something to get a point across. People sometimes get hurt by jokes at them. If a joke is used to show a problem in someone's thought, it is normally called satire.
Images for kids
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Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton enjoying a joke
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The Westcar Papyrus, dating to c. 1600 BC, contains an example of one of the earliest surviving jokes.
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1597 engraving of Poggio Bracciolini, author of one of the first joke anthologies
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
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Sigmund Freud
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Charles Darwin in his later years
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See also
In Spanish: Chiste para niños
