National Tell a Joke Day
August 16th has no documented founder, which is fitting for a holiday about the oldest human social technology. The oldest recorded joke is a Sumerian text from 1900 BCE: something about a woman who had never sat on a man's lap. The punchline does not survive. Comedy's relationship with loss is very, very old.
- Category
- Silly
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