A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader.

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magazine article: Jokes. "“It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain (famous humorist) Read article

magazine article: The funniest jokes in the world. "Recently, a group of scientists and psychologists decided to try and find out what the funniest joke in the world was.  This was obviously going to be a difficult task, as no two people ever really agree about what is funny and what is not – especially when they are from different countries." Read article

word game: Famous riddles: Why did the chicken cross the road? Why do birds fly south in the winter? Find out here! Play game (1) and game (2)

story:. Three Jokes. Have you heard the one about the chicken and the frog? How about the one about the firing squad? And the one about the parrot who didn't want to talk? In this activity you have to 'tell' the jokes yourself. Read jokes

cartoon: "Ha! Ha! Ha! PLONK!" "Goodness! What was that?" See cartoon

trivia: Wordplay. “Questions of a zealous nature have become by degrees petty waxen jokes” is a pangram (a sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet). See more jokes trivia

poll: "What do you think of our cartoons?" See results

links: HowStuffWorks: how laughter works See more links

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