World's oldest jokes?

Excuse me if this has already appeared elsewhere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7725079.stm

Ha!

I rather enjoyed that.

It was put in general a while back.

Not to shit on your parade...

Thanks Paul - only a month late. Not a moderator or anything are you?

That's awesome. I did a whole lesson based around the Dead Parrot sketch. I'll have to bring this in to show the kids.

The king of the one liners Henny Youngman.

The jokes are as old as he is.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zuEv2GefkfY

Quote: Curt @ December 11 2008, 12:51 PM GMT

That's awesome. I did a whole lesson based around the Dead Parrot sketch. I'll have to bring this in to show the kids.

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Are you the official cool teacher?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0RB38fUeU

Jim Bown huzzah he's a national treasure!

Wasn't the dead parrot sketch based on a car salesman sketch that Palin/Cleese did for a different show before Python? Maybe the salesman sketch was based on the slave sketch.