The shortest joke
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The shortest joke is a cycle of jokes known in some cultures. The idea is to present the comic core in the most distilled way. Jokes of this type support the incongruity theory of humor, since they rely on some paradox related to the joke subject.[1]
Examples[edit]
- Russian jokes:
- Kolobok hanged himself.(Колобок повесился) [1]
- One early morning two Politburo members met in a trolley bus...[1]
- He gave birth. (An "untranslatable" case: in Russian it is a single-worder: Родил)[1]
- Among Russian political jokes, the following meta-joke is known: A famous comedian landed in Gulag. When asked what for, he answered: People asked me to tell the shortest joke, and I told them: "Communism".[2]
- German humor:
- The shortest Manta joke ever: Ein Manta steht vor der Uni (A Manta right by the university).[3]
- English
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Graham, Seth (2004) A Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
- ↑ Irina H. Corten, "Vocabulary of Soviet Society and Culture: A Selected Guide to Russian Words, Idioms, and Expressions of the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991", 1992m, ISBN 0822312131 Search this book on
., Introduction
- ↑ Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough: Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity, 1999, ISBN 1571812113 Search this book on ., pp.172-173
- ↑ "The World’s Shortest Joke"
- ↑ Video: Is this the world's shortest joke? - Yorkshire Post
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