Jokes and Anecdotes Literature Folklore

Jokes and Anecdotes

Jokes are short, funny, fictional tales, usually ending in a punchline. Common types of jokes are numskull jokes (about naivete and foolishness), political jokes, sexual jokes, moron jokes, and immigrant jokes. Anecdotes are short, humoristic legends told about famous people or local characters.

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• - Treatise of political jokes form Alan Dundes' collection.
  
• - Excerpts from the section on foreigner jokes.
  
• - Russian oral jokes and anecdotical tales compiled, edited, translated from the Russian and supplied with an introduction and commentaries by Mark Perakh.
  
• - Includes introduction to this juvenile English-language word-play humor.
  
• - One of the most common juvenile humor forms in English.
  
• - Excerpted from Vance Randolph's classic "Pissing in the Snow, and other Ozark Folktales."
  
• - Monograph by Bill Ellis studying the emergence of WTC humor as a phenomenon.
  
• - Anecdote excerpted from Vance Randolph's classic "Pissing in the Snow, and other Ozark Folktales," with comment.
  
• - Prepared and illustrated by Warren Shibles, University of Wisconsin.
  
• - Article by Rafaela Castro discussing erotic jokes among Mexican and American Mexican women.
  
• - Funny stories about famous people from Yeats to Gates, arranged by theme.
  
• - Discussion by Michael Bluejay on the psychology of the traditional and the absurd joke.
  
• - Essay by Ed Reber, Dixie State College, looking at theories of humor, with examples.
  
  

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