A Serious Talk About Jokes — The Bad Jokes
On jokes, parrots, and the pressure to laugh in chorus.
In my sixth grade, mom came back from a school meeting.
She said my literature teacher worried about me not laughing during his classes. Everyone else was laughing at his jokes, but me. I was too serious. 😑 Surely, there must have been something wrong with me.
In my defense, I said — but mom, I find his jokes lousy. 😒
To this day, I have this habit of not laughing at the jokes I don’t enjoy. And I usually don’t enjoy pejorative jokes.
But here’s one joke I particularly enjoy. I won’t be sad if you won’t feel like laughing at it.
Some parrots just don’t get it
The joke:
A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician simply performed the same tricks over and over again.
There was only one problem: the captain’s parrot saw the shows every week and began to understand what the magician did in every trick. Once he understood that, he started shouting out in the middle of the show.
“Look, it’s not the same hat!” “Look, he’s hiding the flowers under the table!” “Hey…
