Oh, So That’s What That Really Means (13 Pics) November 7, 2011 | 44 Comments » | Topics: LOL, Pics (via) Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories. Safety cards, airline safety, illustration, flight, evacuation, instructions, procedures, Airtoons Home. Welcome to The SNL Archives. World's funniest joke. The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.[1] Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries.
[citation needed] The History Channel eventually hosted a special on the subject. [citation needed] The jokes The winning joke, which was later found to be based on a 1951 Goon Show sketch by Spike Milligan,[2] was submitted by Gurpal Gosal of Manchester: Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. References. HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF. The Funniest Joke in the World. "The Funniest Joke in the World" is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.
The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter. Broadcast[edit] The sketch appeared in the first episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus ("Whither Canada"), first shown on October 5, 1969. The sketch was later remade in a shorter version for the film And Now For Something Completely Different; it is also available on the CD-ROM game of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Summary[edit] During World War II, Ernest Scribbler, a British manufacturer of jokes (Michael Palin), creates the funniest joke in the world. Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?
The Germans attempt counter-jokes. See also[edit]