A joke is always interesting. He enlivens any conversation, relieves tension in the conversation, one might say, tones. People with a funny talent to tell a joke are always welcome in any company. There are many cases when such a skill helped the narrator to attract important people, the decision of which determined the future fate of the homegrown comedian, because everyone loves to laugh, even those who hold the highest posts. The main thing that the storyteller needs to observe when submitting funny stories to society is measure and tact. Otherwise, the desire to make laugh and create a relaxed atmosphere can end in a quarrel, resentment and hostility.
So what is a joke?
Translated from Greek, this word means "unreleased", i.e. something hidden from the reader (listener), secret, and therefore interesting. In the 6th century, Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine historian, wrote a secret work called Anekdota. This work, denouncing the emperor Justinian, contained a detailed description of the court customs and manners of that time, so it was made public only after the death of the emperor. And in the 18th century, the English scientist S. Johnson designated the joke as "a yet unpublished secret story." There is a modern explanation for him.
A joke is a productive, actively replenished folklore genre. A short interesting case is used as its basis, often a fictional one, but containing well-known, sometimes topical facts. An anecdote is the climax, which usually acquires an unexpected, witty, sometimes paradoxical decision, which the narrator voices at the end. Most often it is it that causes laughter. Here is one example of a simple "beard" joke:
"A man wanders through the desert, exhausted by heat. He cannot stand such a nightmare and falls on the sand. Suddenly he sees something shines. He crawled to that place and happily realizes that he found a worn lamp. A man quickly starts to rub it. From the lamp Gene appears and asks:
"Well? What do you want?"
“I want to go home,” the man replies.
Jin: "Well, let's go!"
Man: "No, I want to quickly."
Jin: "Then we ran!"
Jokes about Little Johnny
Where did the funny jokes about Little Johnny come from? There is a version that the beginning of jokes about Vovochka, this curious and developed boy beyond his years, was laid by the clown of the Moscow circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard Vladimir Tsukerman. It was in the 1970s. Once he bought a lot of postcards and handed out a kid at some holiday. And on each postcard he wrote: "Greetings from the clown Little Johnny!". According to his oversight, Lenin was depicted on some postcards. Then there was a fuss, Zukerman was almost fired from work, but still they weren’t fired, and funny jokes about Vovochka appeared and soon gained popularity.
Here is some of them:
"Father of Vovochka sees in his son’s diary a record:" Dear parents of Vovochka! Your son needs to be washed urgently! It smells bad! "In response, Dad wrote to the teacher a note:" Little Johnny should not be sniffed! Little Johnny must be taught! "
Little Johnny came to his father and said:
"Dad, I have two questions for you: can I add more pocket money and why not right away?"
About Vovochki - politicians
There are many stories about the political Little War. Sometimes our politicians, with their own statements, give an occasion to compose a joke about them. Very often V.V. becomes their hero Zhirinovsky, who, as a child, may have been called Vovochka.
We give examples:
"Zhirinovsky once arrived on a visit to a kindergarten. He later stated to the prosecutor's office that the children were the first to start the fight."
"How do you do?" - Clinton asked Zhirinovsky. He responded in his usual soft, intelligent manner: "Look at yourself, old goat!"
Our president, respected and beloved by many, Vladimir Putin, is also a very outstanding person. It is understandable that he became the hero of the jokes about Little Johnny. But their meaning and content are completely different than the jokes about Zhirinovsky.
“Once one stealing governor comes to Putin and says:“ Vladimir Vladimirovich, I returned my factory to the country, paid taxes for myself and my relatives, I gave the villa for kindergarten. Can I already safely go abroad? "Putin answers him:" But what about the good old Russian tradition of sitting on the track? "
"Putin drove at a speed of 120 km per hour, looked out the window and enjoyed the quality of the Vologda roads. And in front of him at a speed of 200 km per hour an asphalt paver and a soiled brigade of road workers rushed."
A real Russian joke
You may have noticed that each nation has its own jokes based on mentality, features of life in a particular country, and prevailing stereotypes. So, everyone knows Jewish, Odessa, American and, of course, Russian jokes. There are several main themes in ours, among which are drunkenness, sloppiness, petty tricks undertaken by our men to pay a wage, and by women to find it. That is, Russian jokes in a concise and ridiculous form ridicule the vices of our society. If we compare them, for example, with Jewish jokes, then there the main emphasis is on rabbis or on all kinds of tricks, more significant than an innocent nest egg.
Here are a few examples:
"Today in Zlatovo village such a misfortune happened! In the morning everything suddenly became golden: pickles - golden, bread - golden, a bucket - golden, tap water, and that golden! We barely managed to save vodka from this infection."
"The husband returns from work and sees a note on the table:" Dear, I’m with my mom. For dinner, fried fish. Fishing rods in the hallway. "
"The wife left the man, he was kicked out of work, he came home - and there the thieves took out everything they could. He took the rope, made a loop, climbed onto a stool, hooked the rope to the chandelier, threw the loop around his neck and ... suddenly he sees - in the corner an unfinished bottle of vodka. "Thank God! - the man was delighted, getting down from the stool, - life begins to improve! "
Linguistic jokes
A very unusual kind of concise humorous history is a linguistic joke (it is called linguistic or philological in another way). It is based on a certain communicative game that violates the norms of the language, which leads to a different, "laughable" plane. Here are some examples:
"You definitely need a doctor's care. And the further he goes, the better!"
"Thieves climbed into the apartment of boxer Vitali Klitschko and endured everything - beatings, pain, horror, humiliation."
"A pensioner offers translation services from German. He took the language back in forty-fourth."
Jokes for all occasions
They say that there is nothing sacred for the joke, it makes fun of everyone and everything, even death and what is connected with it.
Here are some examples:
"Death sometimes suits incredibly difficult trials, but it accepts everyone without exception."
"Eternity is a condition that begins behind the straight line of the cardiograph."
“A man walks through the cemetery at night, sweats from fear, starts from every rustle. Suddenly he sees two calmly painting the fence. The man is perked up, comes up to them with a light gait, amicably claps one hard worker on the shoulder and exclaims cheerfully:
"Hello guys! Are you not afraid of the dead?"
They looked at each other in surprise and asked:
"Why be afraid of us?"
In conclusion, we want to say that it is not so important what type of anecdote is. The main thing is that he could make laugh and be told to the place.