Fathers' Day humour ...

Dad Jokes!

With Fathers' Day just ending this Sunday (7/9), you can't go past that champagne form of comedy - Dad Jokes!

The 'Dad Joke' is a unique form of humour, carefully crafted and marked by three distinctive features: (1) They're not funny in the first place, (2) They become even less funny with endless repetition, and (3) Endless repetition is what gives them legendary groan status!

One theory about their importance is that young people naturally look up to their fathers and see them as a font of wisdom and authority. The 'Dad Joke' is an important part of the process of separation, whereby the child realises that the father is a real person, with flaws and imperfections - He thinks he's funny, but he just isn't! 

Dad Jokes!

With Fathers' Day coming up this Sunday (6/9), you can't go past that champagne form of comedy - Dad Jokes!

The 'Dad Joke' is a unique form of humour, carefully crafted and marked by three distinctive features: (1) They're not funny in the first place, (2) They become even less funny with endless repetition, and (3) Endless repetition is what gives them legendary groan status!

One theory about their importance is that young people naturally look up to their fathers and see them as a font of wisdom and authority. The 'Dad Joke' is an important part of the process of separation, whereby the child realises that the father is a real person, with flaws and imperfections - He thinks he's funny, but he just isn't!

"That's the dead centre of town" (When driving past a cemetery)

"People are dying to get in there" (See above)

"It's a book" (when given what is clearly a bottle of wine for Christmas)

Q: Why did the sand get wet
A: Because the sea-weed.

I was talking to a young friend the other day and he told me what the best present was; he said it was a broken drum. I said: "What?" His response: "Well you can't beat it can you?"

A sausage and an egg are frying away in a pan together, when the egg turns to the sausage and says "getting a bit warm in here..." The sausage looks over and says "ARRGH!!! A talking egg!"

When asked: "What's on the TV?" Dad replies: "A pot plant and a DVD player."